Tag Archives: Middle-East politics

Pass the popcorn: Unprecedented tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran

Posted on 6 January 2016 by

When our enemies start fighting each other Israel can usually sit back and enjoy the show, although always with a weather eye out for any “collateral damage” that might be headed our way, whether from stray missiles and bullets or … Continue reading →

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Arabs overturning their own preconceptions about Israel

Posted on 18 August 2015 by

There’s plenty of bad news out there which I will get to in a subsequent post, but for now, here’s some more good news from our Arab neighbours. (All emphases are added by me). Abdallah Al-Hadlaq, a Kuwaiti columnist wrote … Continue reading →

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Michael Oren’s bombshell: US-Israel alliance in tatters due to problematic Obama relationship

Posted on 24 June 2015 by

Israel’s former Ambassador to the United States, the renowned historian and academic Prof. Michael Oren, has been making a huge splash in the media in the last few days after he published several columns about the US-Israel relationship in advance … Continue reading →

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New friends, new enemies

Posted on 7 June 2015 by

Never has the saying “politics makes strange bedfellows” been more relevant than the present moment in the Middle East. Israel especially is seeing the truth of this adage in real time as the collapse of Arab regimes all around us, … Continue reading →

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Turkey’s new Prime Foreign Minister

Posted on 3 September 2014 by

While we were busy fighting Hamas in Gaza, new developments were taking place in another quasi-enemy of Israel, Turkey. In presidential elections held a few weeks ago in Turkey, the previous Prime Minister, our old “pal” Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was … Continue reading →

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Betraying Israel: the rush to recognize the PA-Hamas unity government

Posted on 5 June 2014 by

This article was written jointly by Brian Goldfarb and Anne. First is Brian’s post: “Curiouser and curiouser”, said Alice in the famous children’s novel Alice in Wonderland. In that same surreal story, Humpty-Dumpty (who, you may recall, fell off a … Continue reading →

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