Publication

This brief looks at how conservative regimes in the Middle East tend to defend themselves to ensure their survival and at the implications this tendency for Israel. The author argues that a political process, even on the basis of interim solutions, can ease the situation for the moderate elements in the region. Israel, according to the author, should adopt a proactive strategy rather than merely enjoy reading the leaked Wikileak cables that prove that in the view of the moderate conservative camp in the Arab world, Iran, rather than the Palestinian issue, is the true existential threat.