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Author: Dare Gold
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 0429710046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book evaluates whether the military preparations made by US in the aftermath of Central Command's (CENTCOM) establishment, represent the kind of change in America's military relationship with the Middle East. It also evaluates the implications of the creation of CENTCOM for US-Israel relations.
Author: DARE. GOLD
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780367003128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book evaluates whether the military preparations made by US in the aftermath of Central Command's (CENTCOM) establishment, represent the kind of change in America's military relationship with the Middle East. It also evaluates the implications of the creation of CENTCOM for US-Israel relations.
Author: Mitchell Bard
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-08-31
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 0061987611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile critics claim that a nefarious Israel Lobby dictates U.S. policy in the Middle East, the Arab Lobby in this country is older, richer, and more powerful than the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The Arab Lobby is the first book in more than 25 years to investigate the scope and activities of this diffuse yet powerful network. Author Mitchell Bard courageously explores the invisible alliance that threatens Israel and undermines America’s interests in the Middle East.
Author: Sigurd Neubauer
Publisher: Kodesh Press
Published: 2020-08-05
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781947857391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the outset of his presidency, Donald Trump sought to narrow differences between Israel and the six monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-as part of his strategy to isolate Iran.With that objective in mind, Trump's first visit abroad as president was to Riyadh in May 2017-where he addressed the U.S.-Arab-Islamic Summit-immediately followed by a visit to Israel.The President's message was clear: Saudi Arabia and Israel would serve as co-pillars of the U.S. security architecture for the broader Middle East. Under that vision, Egypt, Jordan and the six Gulf monarchies-together with Israel-would isolate Iran diplomatically. The second plank of this strategy was anchored in the so-called "Maximum Pressure" campaign, which sought for all practical purposes to expedite the collapse of Iran's economy as part of an effort to strengthen Washington's standing vis-à-vis Tehran. The third plank focused on solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict. These dynamics, the Trump-administration reasoned, would help set the stage for the renegotiation of the Iran agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.Trump's vision, however, faced immediate resistance-not from Iran or its regional proxies, but rather from some of Washington's very own Gulf partners when they imposed a blockade on Qatar only weeks after his Riyadh address. While the crisis between Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt over Qatar was initially understood in Washington as an inter-Arab dispute, Sigurd Neubauer examines the overlooked and widely misunderstood Israeli and Omani roles in this feud.The Gulf crisis, Neubauer goes on to argue, has shattered a widely held preconception, namely that Israel and the Gulf states are drawing closer because of their shared animosity towards Iran and its regional agenda. While the Gulf states and Israel are indeed drawing closer, it is not primarily driven by fear of Iran but rather by inter-GCC rivalry, including in Washington, where an inexperienced administration had to dedicate significant political capital to solve the Gulf crisis.
Author: Dore Gold
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Published: 1988
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clive Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-02-01
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0197530923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelations between Israel and the Gulf states are not anything new. In the immediate aftermath of the 1993 Oslo Accords, both Qatar and Oman established low-level yet open diplomatic ties with Israel. In 2010, Ha'aretz reported that the former Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, was on friendly terms with Shaykh Abdullah Ibn Zayed, her counterpart from the UAE, despite the absence of formal diplomatic ties between the two states. The shared suspicion towards the regional designs of Iran that undoubtedly underpinned these ties even extended, it was alleged, to a secret dialogue between Israel and Saudi Arabia, led by the late Meir Dagan, the former head of Mossad. Cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia in thwarting Iran's regional ambitions also casts light on Washington's lack of strategic leadership, which had previously been the totem around which Israel and the Gulf states had based regional security strategies. Jones and Guzansky contend that, at the very least, ties between Israel and many of its Gulf counterparts are now more vibrant than hitherto realized. They constitute a tacit security regime which, while based on hard power interests, does not preclude competition in other areas. Ultimately, these relations are helping shape a new regional order in the Middle East.
Author: Robert D. Blackwill
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 59
ISBN-13: 087609695X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The U.S.-Israel relationship is in trouble," warn Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellows Robert D. Blackwill and Philip H. Gordon in a new Council Special Report, Repairing the U.S.-Israel Relationship. Significant policy differences over issues in the Middle East, as well as changing demographics and politics within both the United States and Israel, have pushed the two countries apart. Blackwill, a former senior official in the Bush administration, and Gordon, a former senior official in the Obama administration, call for "a deliberate and sustained effort by policymakers and opinion leaders in both countries" to repair the relationship and to avoid divisions "that no one who cares about Israel's security or America's values and interests in the Middle East should want."
Author: Trita Parsi
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0300138067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis award-winning study traces the shifting relations between Israel, Iran, and the U.S. since 1948—including secret alliances and treacherous acts. Vitriolic exchanges between the leaders of Iran and Israel are a disturbingly common feature of the news cycle. But the real roots of their enmity mystify Washington policymakers, leaving no promising pathways to stability. In Treacherous Alliance, U.S. foreign policy expert Trita Parsi untangles to complex and often duplicitous relationship among Israel, Iran, and the United States from 1948 to the present. In the process, he reveals shocking details of unsavory political maneuverings that have undermined Middle Eastern peace and disrupted U.S. foreign policy initiatives in the region. Parsi draws on his unique access to senior American, Iranian, and Israeli decision makers to present behind-the-scenes revelations that will surprise even the most knowledgeable readers: Iran’s prime minister asks Israel to assassinate Khomeini; Israel reaches out to Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War; the United States foils Iran’s plan to withdraw support from Hamas and Hezbollah; and more. Treacherous Alliance not only revises our understanding of the recent past, it also spells out a course for the future. An Arthur Ross Book Award Silver Medal Winner A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
Author: Daniel C. Kurtzer
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-11-13
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1137304804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpheavals in the Middle East are challenging long held assumptions about politics and governance. The United States faces a moment of truth when half-measures, short-sighted expedients, and delays can no longer sustain an untenable status quo. This is as true in the Arab-Israeli peace process as it is in the politics of the Arab uprisings. This volume of essays argues that it is time for the United States to make a serious effort to advance Palestinian-Israeli peace. The issues in dispute are well-known, thoroughly debated, and resolvable. Intense, smart, determined, creative, and sustained American leadership can help regional leaders bridge their differences. "Now, nearly two decades after Rabin and Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn, Pathways to Peace offers a forward-looking assessment of the relationship between Israel, Palestine, and the United States. Through its diverse perspectives, this volume reminds us that cooperation must be rooted in shared responsibilities and shared benefits, and that the peace of the brave is still within reach." - President Bill Clinton "This is absolutely the right time for a book of essays that reinforce the urgent necessity of lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. This book is the antidote to the fatalism and pessimism; and above all it shows that with will and courage, a solution could be found. These are serious practical essays in policy making. You can agree or disagree with all that is written. But the essential urgency of the case is undeniable and brilliantly set out here. " - Tony Blair "Pathways to Peace is an extraordinary expression of wisdom on the urgent need for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Europeans, as well as Israelis, Palestinians and Americans, would be well-advised to act on the smart policy recommendations in this book. Imagine the impact on a rapidly changing Middle East of Israeli-Palestinian peace!" - Javier Solana, President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics
Author: Tim Wolters
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-08
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9783346365477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 1,0, University of Passau, course: TUNISIA, EGYPT, AND BEYOND - FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS AND THE MENA REGION, language: English, abstract: With the Islamic Revolution in 1979 in Iran, one of the biggest shifts in the power structure of the Middle East Region happened. Suddenly, from one day to the other, the United States of America (USA) and its allies lost one of their major Ally's in the Region. Since then, the USA and their allies, mostly Saudi-Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Israel are in a power struggle with Iran about the control of the Middle East. Since 2017, the tensions between Iran and the US and its allies reaching new highs after the withdraw of the US from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCOPA) treaty in 2018 and the also growing involvement of Iran in the Syrian Civil War to support the alliance between Iran, Syria and the Hezbollah and establishing a long term presence in Syria. In the last Month the Iran and the USA where on the verge of War when Iran first shut down an United States (US) spy drown and just a month later, sizing a British Oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, which brought the tensions with the West and its allies to a new high. These meaningful events in the last 2 years and beyond are the reasons why Iran's foreign policy is so relevant and interesting for the scientist research at the moment, because it is not completely clear how Iran is justifying the US and their allies as enemies of Iran and why this approach in foreign policy is therefore so different and unique to other, mainly Arabic states in the Region.
