Yossef Bodansky

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• The Three Countries Vying For Ultimate Power In The Middle East

  Published 26 January 2020 | viewed 29,307 times

  Two notable deaths in early January 2020 pushed the greater Middle East to increased tension and instability. There emerges a growing risk, as a result,…

• Iran Prepares For War With Israel

  Published 21 October 2019 | viewed 115,377 times

  Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on October 10, 2019, at the memorial for the fatalities of the October 1973 War, and…

• Iran Prepares For War With Israel (Part 2)

  Published 21 October 2019 | viewed 30,742 times

  This is the conclusion to the special report on Iran's war on Israel, read part one here: Iran Prepares For War With Israel All of…

• Iran’s Ultimate Middle East Power Play

  Published 26 September 2019 | viewed 15,598 times

  There was little doubt by late September 2019 that Iran’s clerical leadership was truly in command of the dynamic of the transformation of the Persian…

• Has Iran Won The War For The Middle East?

  Published 21 September 2019 | viewed 49,024 times

  The most important historic milestone was not the heavy damage to the Saudi oil installations during the attacks on them on September 14, 2019. Rather,…

• China’s Ultimate Play For Global Oil Market Control

  Published 15 August 2019 | viewed 41,535 times

  All attention is focused on the twists-and-turns of the very noisy US-Iran dispute in the Persian Gulf, but all the while the People’s Republic of…

• Declassified: The Sino-Russian Masterplan To End U.S. Dominance In Middle East

  Published 17 June 2019 | viewed 46,398 times

  Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin’s early June 2019 summit in Moscow with People’s Republic of China (PRC) Pres. Xi Jinping seems likely to have a disproportionate…

• On The Cusp Of War: Why Iran Won’t Fold

  Published 19 May 2019 | viewed 28,847 times

  iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, on May 14, 2019 — a week after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had visited Baghdad and…

• A New Middle East Mega-War Is Unfolding Right Before Our Eyes

  Published 24 April 2019 | viewed 87,480 times

  Iran is leading a new bloc, with Turkey and Qatar, intent on remaking the greater Middle East. The Iranian leadership recognizes that this drive might…

• New Middle East Alliance Shakes World Powers

  Published 28 March 2019 | viewed 63,028 times

  A new bloc is emerging in the greater Middle East with the declared objectives of dominating the entire Arab world, confronting and containing the US…

• Iranian Influence In Iraq Grows

  Published 18 June 2018 | viewed 20,605 times

  Iran has effectively won the struggle to dominate the future of Iraq. It has done so against the formidable Shi’ite Arab populace, and after nearly…

• How Russia Is Deploying Its Military In Syria

  Published 08 October 2015 | viewed 15,038 times

  The Russian Air Force launched its first acknowledged bombing raids in Syria on September 30, 2015. Most of the sorties were flown by Su-24M2s, and…

• Syria: As the World Backs Off, the Jihadists Attack

  Published 18 September 2013 | viewed 7,796 times

  The military and political dynamic in and around Syria continued to escalate since late in the week ending September 14, 2013, and more so in…

• Syrian Chemical Attack: More Evidence Only Leads to More Questions

  Published 10 September 2013 | viewed 25,602 times

  Accumulating new evidence regarding the August 21, 2013, chemical attack in Ghouta, eastern Damascus, raises most basic questions. The recent findings point increasingly toward the…

• Did the White House Help Plan the Syrian Chemical Attack?

  Published 28 August 2013 | viewed 47,768 times

  There is a growing volume of new evidence from numerous sources in the Middle East — mostly affiliated with the Syrian opposition and its sponsors…

• Could the Chemical Attack in Ghouta be the Markale of the Syrian War

  Published 22 August 2013 | viewed 30,957 times

  In August 1995, Western governments, and particularly the Bill Clinton White House, were in great quandary. The negotiations with the Serbs were going well as…

• Iran and Sudan Begin to Execute Moves to Dominate Central & Western Africa

  Published 02 July 2013 | viewed 22,088 times

  The Central African Republic has become a key player, working under Sudanese and Iranian direction, in jihadist action, geared to take advantage of the West's…

• Why the West is Supporting an Anti-Western Solution in Syria

  Published 20 April 2012 | viewed 12,147 times

  A Jihadist, Anti-Western Agenda is Being Forced on Syria The international community has been blindly following a jihadist-driven agenda for Syria; a solution the majority…

• The Enduring Middle East Strategic Framework Begins to Emerge as Iran Surges, and the US Resiles

  Published 04 August 2010 | viewed 9,755 times

  The lingering impact of August 3, 2010, clash on the Israeli-Lebanese border lies in the greater context of, and wider strategic dynamics in, the Middle…

• Clash on Israel-Lebanon Border Holds Potential for Strategic Escalation

  Published 03 August 2010 | viewed 23,449 times

  The August 3, 2010, armed clash along the Israeli-Lebanese border was a significant strategic incident. On Thursday, July 29, 2010, Israel notified UNIFIL that a…