Communications

"We always prefer the Americans," Orna Mizrahi, a former Israeli deputy national security adviser now serving as senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies, told Newsweek. "But we understand that, because of [the Russians'] really good relations nowadays with the Iranians, maybe they can provide something that will contribute to this for the stability of...

Russia and China, have made U.S. and European sanctions against Iran ineffective in deterring Tehran from developing its nuclear program, Danny Citrinowicz, a research fellow in the Iran Program at the Institute for National Security Studies, said. “There is no ability to [revive] the ‘maximum pressure’ campaign,” he said. “Today, the Iranians are exporting more than 2 million...

This isn’t quite an “axis of evil,” the unfortunate term President George W. Bush applied to Iran, Iraq and North Korea to justify his invasion of Iraq. Those states had little to do with one another; far from being allies, Iran and Iraq were enemies that had fought a bloody war in the 1980s. A more apt way to describe the current situation was suggested by Yoel Guzansky, a...

Russia’s cooperation with Iran has included the transfer of Western weapons captured in Ukraine such as anti-aircraft missiles, said Sima Shine, former head of research and analysis at Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and now head of the Iran program at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.

Arkady Mil-Man, a former Israeli ambassador to Russia now at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, said that Mr. Netanyahu appeared to ignore that “Israel is perceived as an enemy by the Russians.” The relationship between Israel and Russia would only worsen, he said, because “the Russians chose a clearly anti-Israeli side.”

Following Moscow's intervention in the Syrian civil war, Israel worked closely with the Kremlin as it mounted its own air campaign in Syria targeting Iranian-backed forces, said former Israeli ambassador to Russia, Arkady Milman, now a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. Russia controlled Syria's airspace and was, in effect, authorising...

Arkady Mil-Man, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and former Israeli ambassador to Russia, said the bogus articles are used by Russia as part of an “emotional and psychological” war on Ukraine’s Western backers, especially targeting countries where support for Kyiv is ambivalent or divided, such as Israel, the US, France and Germany. Some articles are...

The current crisis, and the support provided by the Biden administration so far, makes it evident that only a solid alliance with the U.S. can protect Israel, said Tuvia Gering, a China expert at the Institute for National Security Studies of Tel Aviv University. “There is no alternative for Israel,” he said. “China is not neutral. It’s against Israel and is providing wind to...

In a paper written by Yoel Guzansky and Arkady mil-man from the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel (INSS), the researchers say that new information indicates that US influence in the Middle East has been gradually declining, and Arab states in the region seek to mitigate risks by not solely identifying with one side or the other.