Navigating Perilous Waters: An Israeli Strategy for Peace by Ephraim Sneh
By Ephraim Sneh
Israel is a Jewish kingdom in a Muslim heart East. How can it live on in that quarter? This booklet solutions this question by means of reading the risks and threats that Israel faces this present day. The e-book additionally highlights a huge component to Israel's energy: the patience and the solidarity of its social cloth, which the writer sees because the key to his country's survival within the heart East. Written by means of Israel's former deputy minister of defence, this publication is key interpreting for all these attracted to the modern politics of the center East.
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Khamenei can veto legislation, and exercises complete control over the courts, over Iran’s intelligence and security services, over its military and nuclear industry, and in effect over every important center of power in the country. Since 1999 he has frustrated most of the reforms initiated by Khatami. During the first year of his second term of office, not only did Khatami fail to implement the reforms he promised, but most of the leaders of the reform camp were imprisoned and the whole of the pro-reform press shut down.
The Hashemite regime, which maintains a politically moderate line and good relations with the United States, is a thorn in the side of the Arab world’s radicals. Many of these are waiting for the Jordanian monarchy to fall and for Jordan to become another radical state, most likely an Islamicist one, under Iran’s, Iraq’s, or Syria’s influence. A change of regime in Jordan is one of Israel’s strategic nightmares. It is one of the possibilities that make the waters we are navigating perilous. A radical Islamic regime in Jordan would be dangerous for Israel for several reasons.
It would be mistaken to interpret Syria’s rejection of Barak’s offer as mere intransigence on Assad’s part. For Assad, the issue was not just getting a strip of land a few meters wide on the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. Syria’s conception of peace is completely different from Israel’s view. For the Syrians, peace means, first and foremost, receiving the Golan Heights back from Israel. In their view, this includes land that Syria seized by force from Israel prior to June 1967. In return, Syria offers a formal, cold peace.