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Closing the Home Front Defense Ministry
Thursday, 8 May 2014, 1:55 pm | INSS Insight
Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan’s letter of resignation and his recommendation that the ministry be closed and its powers transferred to the Defense Ministry will apparently lead to the end of yet another sad story in Israel's attempts to construct ... More >>
The Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation and Palestinian Negotiations
Thursday, 1 May 2014, 1:25 pm | INSS Insight
On Wednesday, April 23, 2014, representatives of Fatah and Hamas meeting in Gaza reached agreement on a long-sought reconciliation. That same evening, the Israeli government canceled a scheduled meeting of Palestinian and Israeli negotiators, and ... More >>
The Ukrainian Crisis: Is It Over?
Tuesday, 29 April 2014, 4:32 pm | INSS Insight
On April 17, 2014, the foreign ministers of all the parties involved in the Ukrainian crisis -- Russia, Ukraine, the US, and the European Union -- met in Geneva. The purpose of the meeting was to resolve the escalating crisis in Ukraine, which has evolved ... More >>
Syria and Lebanon: A Change in the Rules of the Game?
Friday, 28 March 2014, 5:09 pm | INSS Insight
In the recent incident in which an IDF patrol on the Golan Heights was struck by a roadside bomb, all signs point to the bomb’s having been placed by Hizbollah-backed forces, apparently with the knowledge and aid of Assad’s forces. More >>
The Annexation of Crimea: International Ramifications
Tuesday, 25 March 2014, 5:02 pm | INSS Insight
In a series of rather rapid moves, Russia, ignoring international criticism, annexed the Crimean Peninsula. In the immediate background to the annexation are more than three months of violent protests in Ukraine, which ended on February 21, 2014 with ... More >>
Ukraine: An American-Russian Wrestling Arena
Thursday, 6 March 2014, 5:05 pm | INSS Insight
While President Obama has been challenged on a number of international fronts in the course of his five and a half years in office, the Russian invasion of the Crimean Peninsula presents perhaps the most difficult dilemma. According to his criteria ... More >>
Question Marks on the Way to a Turkey-Israel Agreement
Wednesday, 5 March 2014, 9:23 am | INSS Insight
In recent weeks there have been increasing reports that Turkey and Israel have progressed in talks on an agreement to resolve the Mavi Marmara crisis. In particular, the two sides have significantly narrowed the gaps on the compensation that Israel will pay. More >>
The Saudi Arabia and Kuwait “Outposts Project”
Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 5:18 pm | INSS Insight
Discourse on the social networks suggests that the challenge to regional stability, be it by the revolutionaries operating against the national state structure or by civil wars dominated by the ethnic conflicts between Sunnis and Shiites, along with ... More >>
Implementation of the Interim Nuclear Deal in Iran
Monday, 27 January 2014, 1:52 pm | INSS Insight
On January 20, 2014, IAEA inspectors visited Natanz and Fordow to verify that Iran began implementing the interim deal with the P5+1 by halting its enrichment of uranium at these facilities to 20 percent. The last two months were spent rehashing the terms ... More >>
US-Saudi Relations: On the Verge of a Crisis?
Friday, 3 January 2014, 2:06 pm | INSS Insight
On December 17, 2013, Mohammed bin Nawaf, the Saudi ambassador to Great Britain, published an exceptionally harsh op-ed in the New York Times about the policy of the Obama administration toward Iran and Syria. Until recently, signs of Saudi dissatisfaction ... More >>
Is Turkey Returning to the “Zero Problems” Policy?
Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 10:48 am | INSS Insight
The disclosure of political corruption of unprecedented proportions in Turkey’s history has catapulted the country into a state of major political upheaval. So far, the response of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has consisted of counterattack ... More >>
Regime Stability in the Middle East: An Analytical Model
Friday, 27 December 2013, 12:50 pm | INSS Insight
The wave of uprisings that swept through Arab states in recent years has transformed the Middle East. Against this background, there is a need for a comprehensive analytical model to help assess both the likelihood of regime stability and the probability ... More >>
Al-Qaeda and (In)Stability in Yemen
Wednesday, 25 December 2013, 11:23 am | INSS Insight
A recently captured document written by the commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (al-Qaeda in Hijaz) reviews the organization’s strategy in 2011-2012, when operatives seized control of several provinces in the southern part of Yemen. ... More >>
Israel and Saudi Arabia: Is the Enemy of My Enemy My Friend?
Monday, 23 December 2013, 9:20 am | INSS Insight
Recent reports and commentaries have suggested that a rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia is underway. Indeed, both countries are eager to prevent Iran from achieving military nuclear capability and would like to curb Iranian attempts to ... More >>
New INSS Insight - Syrian Weapons in Hizbollah Hands
Friday, 15 February 2013, 12:03 pm | INSS Insight
A new issue of INSS Insight is posted on our site: INSS Insight No. 404 Syrian Weapons in Hizbollah Hands by Yiftah Shapir , INSS According to foreign sources, about two weeks ago, Israel attacked targets in Syrian territory. Assuming that a convoy of ... More >>
Has Maghreb and W. Africa Campaign Reached New Level?
Monday, 28 January 2013, 11:38 am | INSS Insight
A new issue of INSS Insight is posted on our site: INSS Insight No. 397 Has the Campaign in the Maghreb and in West Africa Reached a New Level? by Yoram Schweitzer , Olga Bogorad, and Einav Yogev, INSS France’s military intervention in the campaign ... More >>
The Middle East in the New Media
Tuesday, 8 January 2013, 10:58 am | INSS Insight
Issue No. 29 of The Middle East in the New Media is posted on our site. The Middle East in the New Media is a bi-weekly survey of selected issues featured and debated in various media in the Arab world. The survey, which includes links to opinion pieces, ... More >>
The EU Draws a Red Line on Israeli Settlements
Wednesday, 2 January 2013, 12:36 pm | INSS Insight
The EU Draws a Red Line on Israeli Settlements INSS Insight No. 394, January 1, 2013 - Source Link By Shimon Stein More >>
INSS Insight No. 326
Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 10:45 am | INSS Insight
A new issue of INSS Insight is posted on our site: INSS Insight No. 326 The Terror Attack in Toulouse: Aberration or Symptom? by Shimon Stein and Yoram Schweitzer , INSS The events in Toulouse shone a spotlight on the threat posed by global jihadism ... More >>
INSS Insight No. 314
Friday, 17 February 2012, 12:48 pm | INSS Insight
In early December 2011, a US Department of Defense report about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) was leaked to the media. The bottom line of the report was that there are, in the language of the report, several problems with “major consequences” ... More >>
