INSS Publishes 'Strategic Survey for Israel 2017-2018'
Ami Rojkes Dombe
| 04/01/2018
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As 2017 draws to a close, the Middle East is witnessing the convergence of several important developments that will potentially have a broad impact on Israeli national security. The civil war in Syria is subsiding through a process dominated by Russia, Iran, and Turkey – which poses the danger that Israel’s interests will not be taken into account in the deliberations and steps toward an agreement to stabilize the arena.
The jihadist territorial Islamic State established in Iraq and Syria has been obliterated, although the underlying idea driving the organization remains an urgent social and security challenge, both in the Middle East and beyond. The balance of power and the dynamics between the major powers are changing, as is their global and regional conduct. The regional struggle between Iran and its allies, and Saudi Arabia and its allies, has heated up significantly.
And finally, toward the end of the first year of the Trump administration, the impact of the transition between two markedly different US administrations, particularly in their respective approaches to the Middle East and Israel’s relations with its principal ally, the United States, has emerged clearly.
[Source: Strategic Survey for Israel 2017-2018, edited by Slomo Brom and Anat Kurz]
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As 2017 draws to a close, the Middle East is witnessing the convergence of several important developments that will potentially have a broad impact on Israeli national security. The civil war in Syria is subsiding through a process dominated by Russia, Iran, and Turkey – which poses the danger that Israel’s interests will not be taken into account in the deliberations and steps toward an agreement to stabilize the arena.
The jihadist territorial Islamic State established in Iraq and Syria has been obliterated, although the underlying idea driving the organization remains an urgent social and security challenge, both in the Middle East and beyond. The balance of power and the dynamics between the major powers are changing, as is their global and regional conduct. The regional struggle between Iran and its allies, and Saudi Arabia and its allies, has heated up significantly.
And finally, toward the end of the first year of the Trump administration, the impact of the transition between two markedly different US administrations, particularly in their respective approaches to the Middle East and Israel’s relations with its principal ally, the United States, has emerged clearly.
[Source: Strategic Survey for Israel 2017-2018, edited by Slomo Brom and Anat Kurz]
