The year 2014 has come to an end with a strategic tie on the main fronts Israel is dealing with.

On the Iranian front, the nuclear program has been frozen. The diplomatic process vis-à-vis the international community is still in a stalemate.

Despite Israeli concerns that a bad deal would be reached, that the sanctions regime would collapse or that the Iranians would make a secret breakthrough towards a nuclear bomb, the civil year ended without a change.

On the Palestinian front, another ambitious American attempt to solve the conflict failed, leaving the Israelis and the Palestinians in a status quo which also reflects a strategic tie.

The battle against Hamas this past summer ended without a real military or political change either. So far, the fears of an intifada in the Palestinian Authority territories or in Jerusalem have also proved to be false.

On the northern front, the bloody civil war in Syria has reached a strategic tie between the regime and the rebels. While Syrian President Bashar Assad has tightened his grip on Damascus and the Alawite areas with the help of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, the Kurds are in control of their area and the Sunnis are controlling wide areas as well through their different organizations.

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