Sempre che il confronto fra Usa e Iran non precipiti, la settimana prossima a Gerusalemme ci sarà un incontro forse senza precedenti. Si vedranno i consiglieri per la sicurezza nazionale di Stati Uniti, Russia e Israele. John Bolton, Nikolay Patrushev e Meir Ben-Shabbat si confronteranno su futuro assetto della Siria.
Israeli election campaigns are not for the faint hearted. They might not be to everyone’s likings and they hardly produce decisive results, but they are never dull and never fail to generate great excitement.
The April 9 general elections in Israel are among the most contested, uncertain, and possibly crucial in the country’s republican history. Israel’s society is increasingly polarized, and political tensions are also on the rise: the left-right dichotomy has grown beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and now touches upon a series of questions regarding the fundamental values and institutions of the state.
When we talk or write about the volatile Middle East, there are few certainties. One of these certainties is that foreign policy in Israel remains the same even as political seasons change. Whether there are elections or government crises, Israeli foreign policy bets on its outdated “security-based diplomacy” approach to foreign relations that has anchored the State’s Defense Doctrine since the Six-Day War in 1967.
The early elections for the 21st Knesset were supposed to be a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu. This, at least, was the purpose of the Prime Minister himself – along with winning a large personal consensus and a solid political majority recreating a more disciplined right-wing coalition under a stronger Likud, and catching the momentum of the positive mood among the Israelis on security and economic policy.
The elections of April 9 to the 21st Knesset, originally due for November 2019, are among the most contested, uncertain, and possibly crucial in the 70 years of Israel's democracy and political history. The fact Premier Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu called an early vote was emblematic of the contradictory circumstances facing Israel's leading politician, the national party system, and indeed the entire nation. Netanyahu had to maneuver between anticipating or postponing elections – each of the solutions carrying serious costs and benefits.
Talking about the upcoming Israeli Elections, the name of Benny Gantz stands out as the true and only rival of Benjamin Netanyahu in this electoral race; together with his party, he has an unprecedented chance to defeat the Likud.
A sei settimane dalle elezioni del 9 Aprile, il procuratore generale israeliano Avichai Mendelblit ha annunciato di voler procedere con l’incriminazione del Primo ministro Benjamin Netanyahu per frode e abuso di fiducia in due casi distinti: Case 1000, riguardante i costosi regali che Netanyahu avrebbe ricevuto da un ricco imprenditore di Hollywood in cambio di favori politici; Case 2000, che vede coinvolti il primo ministro e l’editore di Yediot Ahronot, Aron Mosez, nella stipulazione di un patto che avrebbe assicurato a Netanyahu una
A meno di una settimana dal 12 maggio, data entro la quale l’amministrazione Usa è tenuta a rinnovare la sospensione delle sanzioni verso Teheran, aumentano le incertezze sul futuro dell’accordo sul nucleare iraniano (JCPOA) e si inaspriscono i toni delle dichiarazioni dei principali protagonisti.
Qualche giorno fa sul New York Times, l’opinionista David Brooks scriveva che Donald Trump detiene il record mondiale dell’effetto Dunnig-Kruger: “The phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence”. Dalla conferenza di Madrid del 1991 la diplomazia ha cercato mille strade per raggiungere una soluzione duratura per israeliani e palestinesi. Senza contare i mille piani di pace a partire dal voto Onu del 1947 sulla spartizione della Palestina mandataria britannica fra uno stato ebraico e uno arabo.
