Author page: Yoram Ettinger

Beware of the Ayatollah Regime’s Negotiation Tactics

US negotiation vs. Iranian negotiation A self-destructive step undertaken by US negotiators has been the assumption that negotiation with the Ayatollah regime (and any other terroristic regime) can be based on Western negotiation tactics. Contrary to US negotiation tactics, which aim to advance reconciliation, the Ayatollah regime’s 1,400-year-old negotiation tactics are…

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The Non Nuclear Iran – a Strategic Threat to the USA

The China-Iran-Russia Axis *The 2025 Threat Assessments issued by the US Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence state: “China, Russia and Iran will remain the most pressing foreign threats to our critical infrastructure…. We expect [non-nuclear] Iran to remain the primary sponsor of terrorism and continue its efforts to advance plots against individuals –…

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President Trump’s policy toward Israel – underlying assumptions

1. President Trump is not an impartial leader. As expected, he is driven by US interests, determining that Israel’s capabilities and track record have been a unique force and dollar multiplier for the US, commercially and militarily, technologically and operationally. 2. President Trump views Islamic terrorism as a threat to Western democracies, including the US (“The…

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President Trump, Beware of the Syrian Volcano

*The unpredictable eruption of the Syrian volcano – which could emit molten lava well beyond Syria and the Middle East – sheds light on the following 1,400-year-old features of the radical/fundamentalist segment of the complicated, brutal and frustrating inter Arab/Moslem reality, which are currently menacing every pro-US Arab regime: <Violent unpredictability; <Ruthless despotism;…

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Regime-Change: Prerequisite for Iran’s Policy-Change

According to the State Department’s annual human rights report on Iran: “Iran’s restrictions on human rights worsened in a number of areas during the year….[For instance], transnational repression against individuals, femicide, forced sterilization, early and forced marriage, trafficking in persons, recruitment of child soldiers, worst forms of child labor, violence targeting…

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Israel’s attack on Iran – force and dollar multiplier for the USA

*The October 26, 2024 Israeli Air Force 1,000-mile-offensive against Iran – which was one of the more complex air force offensives since WW2 – highlighted Israel as a unique triple A store and battle-tested innovation center for the US defense and aerospace industries, underscoring the superiority of the US-made F-35, F-16 and F-15 in the…

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October 7, 2023 deprecating self-destructive Western screensavers

Sympathizing with a screensaver mentality amounts to ceding reality to an imaginary, pleasant, sometimes hallucinating alternate reality. The October 7 horrific Islamic terrorism possesses the potential of moving the mouse, hitting a key and disparaging a screensaver-like self-defeating Western policy. For example: 1. The October 7 massacre – which was…

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Iran’s Ayatollahs driven by fanatic – not financial – anti-US ideology

The US State Department has contended that the diplomatic option toward Iran’s Ayatollahs – along with hundreds of billions of dollars of financial benefits and lavish diplomatic gestures – could induce the Ayatollahs to accept peaceful coexistence with their Sunni Arab neighbors, become good faith negotiators, and abandon their fanatic…

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Yoram Ettinger: Western conventional wisdom crashed? [Video]

Synopsis: *Middle East policy should be shaped by Middle East reality, irrespective of its unpredictability and lack of intra-Arab/Muslim peaceful coexistence. It should not be shaped by Western Conventional Wisdom, despite its much more convenient and peaceful alternate reality, which is based on western values. *Western Conventional Wisdom assumes that “money talks,”…

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