Iran riding the tide of Latin America’s “Pink Wave”
August 1, 2022 | Oved Lobel
The current wave of left-wing governments sweeping Latin America bodes extremely ill for the Jewish citizens of these countries as well as for both the US and Israel politically and security-wise. Reducing Venezuela’s isolation automatically translates into more Iranian power on the continent.
Israel successfully neutralising Iran’s global terrorism apparatus
July 20, 2022 | Oved Lobel
While Israel can’t bring back the AMIA or Burgas victims, it has effectively ensured that such transnational attacks against Israelis and Jews remain, for the time being, extremely unlikely, with only one such successful attack in over two decades – all while striking blow after blow against this terrorist network.
Countering the emerging Russia-Turkey-Iran alliance
August 5, 2022 | Amir Avivi
Less than a week after US President Joe Biden left the Middle East following a visit that focused on the informal Israeli-Sunni Arab alliance in the region, Russian President Vladimir Putin boarded a plane to Iran, the leader of the opposing Shi’ite axis. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined the summit in Teheran.
Asia Watch: Indonesia and the Ukraine crisis
August 5, 2022 | Giora Eliraz
Outsiders might wonder how it happened that the President of the faraway Indonesian archipelago ended up getting involved in such a mission on European terrain. But a wider view of Indonesian history and foreign policy suggests this should not really be a surprise.
