POLS 4730 Chapter Notes - Chapter Itamar Rabinovich: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Itamar Rabinovich, Yom Kippur War

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 4730
• Professor: Janine Clark

Document Summary

Israel"s view of the syrian crisis itamar rabinovich: In early 2011, the outbreak of the syrian crisis that has since descended into civil war sparked a rethink of. Israel, syria"s enemy and intermittent partner in peace negotiations, has thus far been least affected by the storm raging north of its border and has had practically no impact on its course. The background: from 1948 to 1991 and under successive regimes, syria was regarded by israel as its most bitter arab enemy. Olmert found out that president bush was not willing to destroy it, he undertook to do it himself in september. In 2010 the obama administration launched a new effort to restart the syrian-israeli negotiations. In late 2011, it was revealed to the israeli press that secret mediation between netanyahu"s government and. Assad"s regime was quite serious and lasted until the outbreak of the syrian crisis in march 2011.