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An Israeli Double-Feature

Carta
OpinionGlobal, 09.06.2019
Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y Cónsul honorario de Chile en Beirut

While the western allies of WW2 were commemorating D Day (in absence of Russia that had a major role in ending the German Nazi adventure), another dramatic event concerning US service men was once again eluded, waking us up...

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Iran: Preparing the ‘Battle Space’

Artículo
Strategic-Culture, 13.05.2019
Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)
Bernard Lewis, a British-American historian of the Middle East, has been formidably influential in America – his policy ideas have towered over Presidents, policy-makers and think-tanks, and they still do. Though he died last year, his baleful views still shape America’s thinking about...
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Los enemigos de Israel: puede que Trump sea uno de ellos

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El Confidencial, 09.04.2019
Jorge Dezcállar de Mazarredo, Embajador de España
  • Después de Irán y los palestinos, Trump puede ser el tercer enemigo. Con su apoyo a la soberanía sobre los Altos del Golán anima a los extremistas a anexionarse también Cisjordania
Hoy martes se celebran elecciones en Israel, la única democracia de todo el Oriente Medio, que salvo sorpresas...
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Will Trump’s Hawks Dare to Risk Israel?

Artículo
Strategic-Culture, 11.03.2019
Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)
It was the eleventh, and perhaps the most important meeting between President Putin and PM Netanyahu on 27 February, writes the well-informed journalist, Elijah Magnier: “The Israeli visitor heard clearly from his host that Moscow has no leverage to ask Iran to leave – or, to stop the...
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Foreign Policy Should Not Get Lost in Israel’s Election Campaign

Análisis
The Washington Institute, 02.01.2019
David Makovsky (académico-The Washington Institute) y Dennis B. Ross (académico y ex embajador
norteamericano)
Candidates need to be asked how they will deal with thorny issues such as Russian blowback in Syria, Hezbollah missile threats, Gaza reconstruction, and Iranian nuclear resurgence
It is a truism in politics that elections are about the future, and not just about...
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Las incógnitas de seguridad internacional para el 2019

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Infobae, 31.12.2018 
Roberto García Moritán, embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE argentino
La agenda de seguridad internacional para el 2019 se muestra compleja. Una serie de conflictos no resueltos en distintas partes del mundo son propensos a generar enfrentamientos de envergadura con consecuencias globales. Un ejemplo es el Mar de China meridional, donde las diferencias comerciales...
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Did Camp David Doom the Palestinians?

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Foreign Policy, 19.10.2018
Dennis B. Ross, embajador (r), ex enviado norteamericano al Medio Oriente y consejero del Washington Institute for Near East Policy 
  • A new diplomatic history argues that the United States, Egypt, and Israel prevented a Palestinian state from emerging. But leaders such as Yasser Arafat bear much of the blame
The Camp David Accords...
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The Unraveling of the Netanyahu Project for the Middle East

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Strategic-Culture, 05.11.2018
Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico y director fundador de Conflicts Forum (Beirut)
Nahum Barnea, a leading Israeli commentator, writing in Yedioth Ahronoth in May (in Hebrew), set out, unambiguously, the ‘deal’ behind Trump’s Middle East policy: In the wake of the US exit from JCPOA [which occurred on 8 May], Trump, Barnea wrote, will threaten a rain...
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A third gulf war? Unlikely but …

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The Japan Times, 22.10.2018 
Kuni Miyake, presidente (Foreign Policy Institute) y director académico (Canon Institute for Global 
Studies)
Are the United States and Iran headed for a direct military confrontation? The Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), a Tokyo-based independent think tank where I direct its foreign policy/national security shop, conducted a 24-hour policy simulation (or so-called...
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