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- Gives a comprehensive review of the different interests of Israel, Arab states and Iran
- Covers a vast array of challenges Iran’s allies face, which shows the limits of Iran’s power
- Provides an in depth discussion of if and how the United States can assist Israel against Iran
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Iran is the most dangerous threat imposed over Israel's security, directly by its own powers and indirectly by its proxies. Iran's national ingredients – its radical fanatic Islamic regime; its inspirations to extend its domination over the Middle East; its technological level which make it capable to develop and equip with
advanced weapon systems; its support to terrorist organizations in Israel's vicinity and all over the world; and above all – its determined pursue to achieve nuclear capability, which may change essentially the balance of powers in the Middle East and impose existential threat on Israel – all these elements make Iran such a sever threat over Israel, at present and for long term in the future. "Israeli Strategies in the Middle East: The Case of Iran" is a must-read book about the conflict between Israel and Iran and its
implications for the Middle East and the United States. Author Ehud Eilam provides essential information and a highly valuable analysis of current security issues facing Israel from Iran and its proxies.
-Major General. (Ret.) Ran Goren served as the Deputy Commander of the Israeli Air Force and as the Head of the Manpower Directorate at the General Staff of IDF.
The “Israeli Strategies in the Middle East: The Case of Iran” constitutes an important contribution to the scholarly literature of the complicated relationship between Israel and Iran. Ehud Eilam provides an in-depth examination of key national security aspects of Israel’s strategy toward Iran and its protégés. The book is essential for a better understanding of the new geopolitical architecture that had been shaped in the Middle East throughout the opening decades of the 21st century.
-Professor Uzi Rabi is the Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, and a senior researcher at the Center for Iranian Studies, both at Tel Aviv University.
Over the years, Israeli scholar Ehud Eilam has established himself as a leading analyst of his country’s core security issues. Now, more particularly, with publication of Israeli Strategies in the Middle East, Dr. Eilam offers interested readers a fact-based and capable assessment of the Iranian strategic threat. Even moreprecisely, Eilam examines various plausible synergies between Iranian nuclearization and virulent Iranian proxies, especially Hezbollah. In this connection, inter alia, the author explores assorted points of
convergence between the Israel-Iran conflict dyad and Hezbollah’s tangible connections to Syrian and Russian air forces. But things are changing. Looking ahead after Russia’s still-escalating war of aggression against Ukraine, prospects of continuing Russian-Israeli cooperation vis-à-vis Syria and Iran could become substantially less promising. As a considered Israeli endgame, Eilam clarifies that a defensive first strike against Iran remains “on the table,” and that, for Israel especially, the “Westphalian” system of
world security remains oriented to self-help remedies. Whether considered in compelling increments or in its entirety, as a singular whole, Israeli Strategies in the Middle East represents a very
valuable addition to the pertinent analytic literature. Accordingly, I am able to endorse this author’s work with real enthusiasm and without any reservations.-Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971), Purdue University Professor Beres was Chair of “Project Daniel” (PM Sharon, 2003), an early effort to identify viable Israeli remedies for the Iranian strategic threat.
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Ehud Eilam is a former private contractor for the Israeli Ministry of Defense, where for several years he conducted research in different branches of the Israeli Defense Forces.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Israeli Strategies in the Middle East
Book Subtitle: The Case of Iran
Authors: Ehud Eilam
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95602-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95601-1Published: 14 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95604-2Published: 15 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95602-8Published: 13 April 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 230
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations Theory, Middle Eastern Politics