the end of cold war created a unique opportunity for both the arabs and israelis to end their animosity and for the united states to play an important role to bring them to peace negotiations. therefore, during the 1990s, the u.s. facilitated several rounds of talks between syria and israel, but the negotiations complicated gradually. the talks were stalled over the fact that israel did not wan...

Hezbollah is best defined in geopolitics as the Iranian ideology proxy that aims to grow Persian footprint and gain geopolitical strategic depth region. Its role continuously requires conflicts, mainly against Saudi Arabia Israel—for resistance, ideological, purposes. Being a state within state, militia makes sovereign decisions forces Lebanon pay for consequences. This first economic study emp...

The Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) is a product of its diverse participating factions. With more than a dozen political, religious, and social parties, the streets of Lebanon became flooded with contradicting political imageries, influencing public perception of the ‘other’ and inciting military action. Their unique role in Lebanon’s political atmosphere allows such graphics to transcend mere p...

Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents (SOMA) have been proposed as a paradigm for reasoning about cultural groups, terror groups, and other socioeconomic-political-military organizations worldwide. In this paper, we describe a case study that shows how SOMA was used to model the behavior of the terrorist organization, Hezbollah. Our team, consisting of a mix of computer scientists, policy experts...

having relations with the muslim countries are very important for israel. many of these countries had avoided of establishing an open relation with it, because of their muslims opposite population against israel existence. the majority of them have considered israel as an enemy which had created by the efforts of the colonialists. so they considered it as an aggressive state and so they denied ...