April 18, 2021

Russia and the New Middle East: New initiatives and Prospects

Part I: focused on the background to USSR /Israel relations til the fall of the Iron Curtain. Part II: reviewed the Russian courtship of Israel during the first two decades of this century. Part III: Russia’s Predicaments both foreign and...

April 11, 2021

Russia and the New Middle East: Russia’s Predicaments both Foreign and Domestic

See also: Russia and The New Middle East; and Russia and the New Middle East: Inching toward a Grand Bargain Russia is beset with predicaments both foreign and domestic. Three alliances have been formed in the Middle East with which Russia m...

March 21, 2021

Russia and the New Middle East: Inching toward a Grand Bargain

The relationship between Israel and Russia saw little improvement in the first two decades following the fall of the Iron Curtain and the USSR, though there were signs of better days ahead. Pro-Israel Vladimir Putin was elected in 2001 as was...

March 14, 2021

Russia and The New Middle East

With the return to power by the Obama administration through their proxy Joe Biden, I worried that the Biden administration would carry on the policies of the previous two-term Obama administration that involved the embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood,...