Yoram Ettinger

Effective Israel-Saudi Arabia cooperation is a derivative of both countries’ national security and economic interests. The current, unprecedented, Saudi-Israeli security, technological, and commercial cooperation, and the central role played by Saudi Arabia in inducing the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan to conclude peace treaties with Israel, are driven by the Saudi assessment […]

In defiance of both conventional wisdom and Israel’s critics, the highest-ever Arab population growth rate in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) occurred during the period of Israel’s full control of the area (1967-1992).  Between 1967 and 1992, the Arab population of Judea and Samaria expanded by 79%, compared to a mere 0.9% growth during […]

Jordan’s domestic upheaval involved some Arab countries, members of the royal Jordanian family and other prominent Bedouins, who were arrested and charged with an attempted regime change. A regime-change in Jordan could transform the strategically-located country – between Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Israel – into another haven for Palestinian and Islamic terrorism. It would […]