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19 Nov

Is the 'Trump effect' preventing Iran from attacking Israel?

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JL;DR SUMMARY Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's engagement with Russia for a ceasefire involving Hezbollah is criticized due to Russia's close ties with Iran. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Middle East  Iran Israel Relations  Hezbollah  Iran  Netanyahu  Ceasefire  Russia  Geopolitics  U.S. Elections  Saudi Normalization 

Places mentioned

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"I'm Alison Kaplan Sommer in Tel Aviv."
Israel
"Battles between Israel and Hezbollah continue to rage in southern Lebanon."
Lebanon
"Accelerated negotiations are taking place in an attempt to achieve a ceasefire agreement involving Israel, the Lebanese government, and Hezbollah."
Moscow, Russian Federation
"Born in Moscow, Ksenia immigrated to Israel at the age of 14."
Baku, Azerbaijan
"Our journey to Azerbaijan, Baku, where we had our last summit for, again, for Israelis, Palestinians, and Middle Eastern participants."
Iraq
"That receives weapons from Iraq, and Syria and Iran."
Syria
"That receives weapons from Iraq, and Syria and Iran."
Iran
"And Hezbollah is very far from that, so it was weakened, but the justification for stopping the war seems more to be more political, based on the real-life assessments and analysis."
United States
"Iran has been extremely quiet since the U.S. elections."
Oman
"...negotiated indirectly with the Iranians via Oman and also Switzerland."
Switzerland
"...negotiated indirectly with the Iranians via Oman and also Switzerland."
Ukraine
"...Russians are more or less stuck, there are some small advancements and smaller successes but nothing really major."
Saudi Arabia
"Saudi Arabia's crown prince was pretty harsh."
Jordan
"Despite everything, no Arab country canceled its peace agreement with Israel and withdrew completely its embassy from Tel Aviv it didn't happen because these countries first of all they believe that they can perhaps influence more when they have relations with Israel and that the example is of course the Emiratis that are able to bring in much more aid to build a you know the first full hospital and to help much more people than otherwise if they would not have relations, you know, so this is a perfect example of this kind of diplomacy and second of all there are real interests that keep this, you know, shaky structure together for you know, so many years with Egypt and Jordan and then also with others."
Egypt
"Despite everything, no Arab country canceled its peace agreement with Israel and withdrew completely its embassy from Tel Aviv it didn't happen because these countries first of all they believe that they can perhaps influence more when they have relations with Israel and that the example is of course the Emiratis that are able to bring in much more aid to build a you know the first full hospital and to help much more people than otherwise if they would not have relations, you know, so this is a perfect example of this kind of diplomacy and second of all there are real interests that keep this, you know, shaky structure together for you know, so many years with Egypt and Jordan and then also with others."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"Despite everything, no Arab country canceled its peace agreement with Israel and withdrew completely its embassy from Tel Aviv it didn't happen because these countries first of all they believe that they can perhaps influence more when they have relations with Israel and that the example is of course the Emiratis that are able to bring in much more aid to build a you know the first full hospital and to help much more people than otherwise if they would not have relations, you know, so this is a perfect example of this kind of diplomacy and second of all there are real interests that keep this, you know, shaky structure together for you know, so many years with Egypt and Jordan and then also with others."

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