Saudi Arabia And Israel

Author : GEW Intelligence Unit
Publisher : Global East-West
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Saudi Arabia and Israel by GEW Intelligence Unit Pdf

In an era where geopolitics dictates the course of international relations, the evolving dynamics between Saudi Arabia and Israel emerge as a fascinating study of diplomacy, strategic alliances, and the quest for stability in the Middle East. From an outward posture of distance and contention, the undercurrents of their interaction suggest a gradual shift towards a more nuanced engagement. This article delves into the multifaceted relationship between these two pivotal states, exploring their historical background, current engagements, and the covert cooperation that often eludes the public eye. Historical Context: The Foundations of a Complex Relationship The relationship between Saudi Arabia and Israel is steeped in the history of the Middle East, a region characterized by its rich cultural heritage and complex geopolitical landscape. Historically, the emergence of Israel in 1948 marked the beginning of overt tensions with its Arab neighbors, including Saudi Arabia. These tensions were primarily rooted in the broader Arab-Israeli conflict and the struggle for Palestinian statehood, a cause that Saudi Arabia has historically supported. However, beneath the surface of this adversarial stance, there have been periods where mutual interests have paved the way for covert cooperation. These instances were driven by shared concerns over regional threats, particularly the influence of revolutionary Iran post-1979. Such shared threats have, at times, necessitated a reevaluation of their mutual stance, leading to discreet engagements that have shaped the trajectory of their relationship. Evolving Dynamics in the 21st Century In recent years, the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East has undergone significant transformations, prompting a reassessment of relationships within the region. The rise of Iranian influence, concerns over terrorism, and the changing priorities of global powers have created new imperatives for Saudi Arabia and Israel. These developments have catalyzed a shift, moving their relationship from one of cautious distance to incidental alignments.

Author : Bruce Riedel
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815737162

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Kings and Presidents by Bruce Riedel Pdf

An insider's account of the often-fraught U.S.-Saudi relationship Saudi Arabia and the United States have been partners since 1943, when President Roosevelt met with two future Saudi monarchs. Subsequent U.S. presidents have had direct relationships with those kings and their successors—setting the tone for a special partnership between an absolute monarchy with a unique Islamic identity and the world's most powerful democracy. Although based in large part on economic interests, the U.S.-Saudi relationship has rarely been smooth. Differences over Israel have caused friction since the early days, and ambiguities about Saudi involvement—or lack of it—in the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States continue to haunt the relationship. Now, both countries have new, still-to be-tested leaders in President Trump and King Salman. Bruce Riedel for decades has followed these kings and presidents during his career at the CIA, the White House, and Brookings. This book offers an insider's account of the U.S.-Saudi relationship, with unique insights. Using declassified documents, memoirs by both Saudis and Americans, and eyewitness accounts, this book takes the reader inside the royal palaces, the holy cities, and the White House to gain an understanding of this complex partnership.

Author : Lenore G. Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Israel
ISBN : PURD:32754077067902

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Assessing the Impact of U.S.-Israeli Relations on the Arab World by Lenore G. Martin Pdf

Author : Clive Jones,Yoel Guzansky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197530917

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Fraternal Enemies by Clive Jones,Yoel Guzansky Pdf

Relations between Israel and the Gulf states are not anything new. In the immediate aftermath of the 1993 Oslo Accords, both Qatar and Oman established low-level yet open diplomatic ties with Israel. In 2010, Ha'aretz reported that the former Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, was on friendly terms with Shaykh Abdullah Ibn Zayed, her counterpart from the UAE, despite the absence of formal diplomatic ties between the two states. The shared suspicion towards the regional designs of Iran that undoubtedly underpinned these ties even extended, it was alleged, to a secret dialogue between Israel and Saudi Arabia, led by the late Meir Dagan, the former head of Mossad. Cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia in thwarting Iran's regional ambitions also casts light on Washington's lack of strategic leadership, which had previously been the totem around which Israel and the Gulf states had based regional security strategies. Jones and Guzansky contend that, at the very least, ties between Israel and many of its Gulf counterparts are now more vibrant than hitherto realized. They constitute a tacit security regime which, while based on hard power interests, does not preclude competition in other areas. Ultimately, these relations are helping shape a new regional order in the Middle East.

Author : René Rieger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317193067

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Saudi Arabian Foreign Relations by René Rieger Pdf

In recent decades, Saudi Arabia has committed itself to playing the part of mediator in intra-national and international conflicts in the greater Middle East region. Examples include the two Saudi-introduced Arab Peace Initiatives of 1982 and 2002, mediation attempts between Algeria and Morocco in the West Sahara conflict, Iraq and Syria during the Iran-Iraq War and Iran and Iraq towards the end of their military conflict. Saudi Arabian Foreign Relations provides a new insight to current studies on Saudi foreign policy and mediation in international relations. The book offers a detailed analysis of Saudi Arabia’s intermediary role in the intra-state conflicts in Yemen, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, and the successes and limitations of each. Additionally, it provides an updated examination of Saudi Arabia’s role towards resolution of the larger Arab-Israeli conflict. Saudi Arabian Foreign Relations contributes to a far deeper understanding of Saudi foreign policy, and therefore will be of great interest to students and scholars of Middle East Politics and International Relations.

Author : Joshua Teitelbaum
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817911065

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Saudi Arabia and the New Strategic Landscape by Joshua Teitelbaum Pdf

Joshua Teitelbaum evaluates Saudi foreign policy in the Persian Gulf and in the Arab-Israeli peace process and provides a shrewd assessment of the Saudi-U.S. relationship. He debunks the traditional view of Saudi foreign policy that emphasizes the Saudi concern with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and explains how the true concern of Arabia's rulers is the ideological battle that has been opened up by Iran's push into Arab affairs.

Author : Clive Jones,Yoel Guzansky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197530924

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Fraternal Enemies by Clive Jones,Yoel Guzansky Pdf

Relations between Israel and the Gulf states are not anything new. In the immediate aftermath of the 1993 Oslo Accords, both Qatar and Oman established low-level yet open diplomatic ties with Israel. In 2010, Ha'aretz reported that the former Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, was on friendly terms with Shaykh Abdullah Ibn Zayed, her counterpart from the UAE, despite the absence of formal diplomatic ties between the two states. The shared suspicion towards the regional designs of Iran that undoubtedly underpinned these ties even extended, it was alleged, to a secret dialogue between Israel and Saudi Arabia, led by the late Meir Dagan, the former head of Mossad. Cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia in thwarting Iran's regional ambitions also casts light on Washington's lack of strategic leadership, which had previously been the totem around which Israel and the Gulf states had based regional security strategies. Jones and Guzansky contend that, at the very least, ties between Israel and many of its Gulf counterparts are now more vibrant than hitherto realized. They constitute a tacit security regime which, while based on hard power interests, does not preclude competition in other areas. Ultimately, these relations are helping shape a new regional order in the Middle East.

Author : Sigurd Neubauer
Publisher : Kodesh Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947857398

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The Gulf Region and Israel by Sigurd Neubauer Pdf

From the outset of his presidency, Donald Trump sought to narrow differences between Israel and the six monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-as part of his strategy to isolate Iran.With that objective in mind, Trump's first visit abroad as president was to Riyadh in May 2017-where he addressed the U.S.-Arab-Islamic Summit-immediately followed by a visit to Israel.The President's message was clear: Saudi Arabia and Israel would serve as co-pillars of the U.S. security architecture for the broader Middle East. Under that vision, Egypt, Jordan and the six Gulf monarchies-together with Israel-would isolate Iran diplomatically. The second plank of this strategy was anchored in the so-called "Maximum Pressure" campaign, which sought for all practical purposes to expedite the collapse of Iran's economy as part of an effort to strengthen Washington's standing vis-à-vis Tehran. The third plank focused on solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict. These dynamics, the Trump-administration reasoned, would help set the stage for the renegotiation of the Iran agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.Trump's vision, however, faced immediate resistance-not from Iran or its regional proxies, but rather from some of Washington's very own Gulf partners when they imposed a blockade on Qatar only weeks after his Riyadh address. While the crisis between Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt over Qatar was initially understood in Washington as an inter-Arab dispute, Sigurd Neubauer examines the overlooked and widely misunderstood Israeli and Omani roles in this feud.The Gulf crisis, Neubauer goes on to argue, has shattered a widely held preconception, namely that Israel and the Gulf states are drawing closer because of their shared animosity towards Iran and its regional agenda. While the Gulf states and Israel are indeed drawing closer, it is not primarily driven by fear of Iran but rather by inter-GCC rivalry, including in Washington, where an inexperienced administration had to dedicate significant political capital to solve the Gulf crisis.

Author : Antonio Perra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786721952

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Kennedy and the Middle East by Antonio Perra Pdf

At the height of the Cold War, the John F. Kennedy administration designed an ambitious plan for the Middle East-its aim was to seek rapprochement with Nasser's Egypt in order to keep the Arab world neutral and contain the perceived communist threat. In order to offset this approach, Kennedy sought to grow relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and embrace Israel's defense priorities-a decision which would begin the US-Israeli 'special relationship'. Here, Antonio Perra shows for the first time how new relations with Saudi Arabia and Israel which would come to shape the Middle East for decades were in fact a by-product of Kennedy's efforts at Soviet containment. The Saudi's in particular were increasingly viewed as 'an atavistic regime who would soon disappear' but Kennedy's support for them-which hardened during the Yemen Crisis even as he sought to placate Nasser-had the unintended effect of making them, as today, the US' great pillar of support in the Middle East.

Author : Maḥmūd Riyāḍ
Publisher : London ; New York : Quartet Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081369162

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The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East by Maḥmūd Riyāḍ Pdf

An Arab diplomat analyzes the history of the relations between Israel and the Arab countries and describes his involvement in the efforts to achieve a peaceful solution.

Author : Israel Stockman-Shomron
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1412826721

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Israel, the Middle East, and the Great Powers by Israel Stockman-Shomron Pdf

Israel, The Middle East and the Great Powers presents the Israel-Arab conflict to the general public in a uniquely comprehensive and interdisciplinary format. Its form and content reflect the most serious efforts of Israel's intellectual community to analyze the conflict situation in which they live, objectively and honestly. The book argues that recent events have reduced the U.S. role, and changed the policy parameters in the region. A broad cross-section of Israel's foremost orientalists, historians, juridicists and political scientists have contributed a selection of articles and lexicons which embody the essential aspects of the conflict in its broadest sense. Each key element is analyzed within a number of categories: the ideological-theological plane (Judaism, Zionism, the Holocaust, Jerusalem and the three monotheistic religions); the Palestinian sphere (PLO ideology, Jordon and the Judea & Samaria Region, the PLO and the war in lebanon); the superpowers and the wider region (Iran-Iraq, the Islamic resurgence, oil, the Soviet Union and the Middle East, the United States and Israel), etc. Detailed lexicons offer concise factual breakdowns of both the Middle East (inter-Arab aspects, key Arab countries, conventional and nuclear Arab armaments) and the Arab-Israel context (chronology of the conflict, key events and personalities in Zionism, UN involvement, international legal aspects).

Author : United States. Congress. House. Study Mission to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel,Tony P. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : MINN:31951D00819096H

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Peace in the Middle East by United States. Congress. House. Study Mission to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel,Tony P. Hall Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : LOC:00184287560

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Proposed Aircraft Sales to Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations Pdf

Author : Dore Gold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781596988194

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Hatred's Kingdom by Dore Gold Pdf

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Author : Israel Office of Information (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Arab countries
ISBN : UVA:X000620189

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Israel's Struggle for Peace by Israel Office of Information (New York, N.Y.) Pdf