“These are three important countries in the region. We are reviewing our options, but for now, we have not made any decision about joining it,” Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani told journalists in Islamabad on August 20. He was answering a question about…
“Don’t be fooled,” a senior Israeli security source told Al-Monitor on August 21. “Turkey intended to place radar systems and attack drones at the Syrian air force base under Syrian cover. The information is very solid. The Turks know that we know, and the…
“Their navy is gone, their air force is destroyed, their military factories are now rubble, their currency is worthless and their country is hanging by a thread,” Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday evening, August 19. Two hundred words later, in the…
Five commodity vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. None crossed on Sunday. The weekend before, the same two days carried thirty-one. Reuters published the figures from the ship-tracking firm Kpler on Monday, August 17. Before the war began on February 28, more…
Ben-Gurion’s peripheral doctrine — leaning on the non-Arab periphery (Iran, Turkey, Ethiopia) against the Arab environment — has stopped functioning as a strategic frame for Israeli security. Two of its load-bearing states, Iran and Turkey, have become the cores of two axes of resistance…
Trump is dismantling the Iranian axis — and with the same motion strengthening the Turkish one, which openly names Israel a threat On June 24, the Trump administration notified Congress of its intent to sell Turkey a batch of General Electric F110 aircraft engines…
1. The Military Crisis and a Shifting Energy Architecture On March 19, 2026, at a press conference in Jerusalem — with the war against Iran visibly escalating — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sketched out a possible new oil and gas transit route: pipelines…
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s interview with Tucker Carlson has become a major news event in its own right.1 It has provoked a backlash within the Republican Party at home and threatens to reshape international dynamics, particularly in the Middle East. How will…
How the American Withdrawal from Syria Confirmed the Worst Predictions — and Exposed New Threats Analysis based on a January 2026 survey conducted by the Dor Moria Analytical Center under the Haifa Format project. Sample: 1,009 respondents, nationally representative of the Israeli population. Margin…
The Ontological Bubble of Israeli Society Through the Lens of a New Survey Research conducted by the Dor Moria Analytical Center in partnership with the Geocartography Center as part of the Haifa Format project. Sample: 1,009 respondents, representative of Israel’s population aged 18+. Margin…