According to intelligence assessments, the regime’s distress – perhaps the most severe since the Khomeini revolution in 1979 – could drive it to seek to fortify its position inside the republic and externally against the world.
Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Doran doesn’t foresee any changes, at least until after the US presidential elections in November, saying “until then, we are frozen in place.”
The spread of the pandemic highlights the difference between the rich Gulf states and the poorer Arab countries where health care is already lacking, and send people out into the streets.
The shock move splintered Gantz's centrist Blue and White faction just 13 months after it was formed. Some commentators accused the former IDF chief of caving in to Netanyahu. Israel Resilience MK Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh: A leader does not betray his principles and his electorate.
Once the pandemic is defeated, it will be business as usual and the terrorist groups will be back to targeting Isreal.
Like water, contagious diseases know no borders. But it is to be hoped that this crisis will enhance mutual trust and confidence between Palestinians and Israelis.
More cases of infection are being recorded daily in the PA and Gaza, it is only a matter of days until a general outbreak occurs, and when it does it will be Israel that is forced to pick up the pieces.
Israel's national security is unquestionably compromised by the global coronavirus outbreak. The assertion that preoccupation with the pandemic will temper the behavior of Israel’s enemies is wishful and mistaken thinking.
The Russian government has been confident to the point of boastful in ensuring its citizens and the world that the coronavirus is virtually nonexistent within its borders. But the Russian people are skeptical, with good reason.
Whether or not the regime will make any moves against Western forces in the region or push its proxies to open a front against Israel remains to be seen, according to two Mideast analysts.
