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Iran expert Meir Javedanfar speculated that if President Donald Trump is re-elected and U.S. sanctions ratcheted up, then the regime would be pressed to negotiate with the Americans or risk real threats of domestic instability.
The question is whether Israel used enough force in Operation Protective Edge in 2014 and inflicted enough pain on the enemy to purchase a sizable chunk of time as respite before the next round of “grass mowing.”
The Trump administration is planning to unveil its peace plan in the coming months, and administration officials have said that both sides will need to compromise. That doesn’t sit so well with the Islamic Movement in Israel.
Despite the extension of American soldiers in Syria, the Trump administration is aware that military training of certain forces abroad has a poor record of success.
The recent Russian-Turkish-Iranian summit in Tehran underscored the Islamic Republic’s determination to take an active and central part in the future reconstruction of Syria so as to promote a range of civilian and security interests that are bound to work to Israel’s detriment.
Israel’s minorities are expressing concern because they perceive the new law as favoritism for Jewish citizens at their expense.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan includes items the Palestinians would never agree to, says Ronen Yitzhak, head of the Middle East Studies department at Israel’s Western Galilee College.
In order to understand the need for the new Nation-State law, we must understand the challenges to Israel’s existence in the Middle East.