Saudi Arabia and the UAE have long opposed regime change. But they’re switching course with Syria, where they’re embracing new dynamics and power realities. On December 8, 2024, armed militias toppled the brutal dictatorship of the Assad family, ending a nearly fourteen-year civil war in Syria. Back in March 2011, …
Read More »Imaginer la Riviera de Gaza et autres folies
Netanyahou remporte une autre victoire face à une Maison-Blanche ignorante. Le problème est que les personnes qui regardent nerveusement ce que fait le président Donald Trump pour remodeler le Moyen-Orient au profit d’Israël ne regardent pas assez profondément les changements de politique intérieure américaine qui sont également promus et qui …
Read More »Le «plan» de Trump pour Gaza : le monde entier est contre, à part la bande à Bibi
Gaza est à jamais palestinienne, disent à Donald Trump ses habitants fatigués de la guerre par Nagham Mohanna Les habitants de Gaza qualifient de «fantasmes» les propositions du président concernant le contrôle de l’enclave par les USA. Les habitants de Gaza se sont montrés défiants mercredi face à toute tentative …
Read More »What Syrians Can Learn From Libya’s Revolution
Two fateful missteps after the fall of dictator Muammar Qadhafi offer important lessons on the impact of early policy choices. Jubilant crowds tearing down statues and posters of a hated despot. Feared prisons emptying out their longtime occupants. City squares hosting raucous rallies and solemn Friday prayers, free from the …
Read More »Clueless in Gaza
Donald Trump’s latest remarks aim to erase the Palestinians and ignore international law. Since his election, President Donald Trump has insisted that he can achieve “peace” in the Middle East. In January, during the first phase of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, he even declared that …
Read More »Migration: A New Pact Doomed to Fail from the Start
Just over 220,000 migrants were detected trying to cross into Europe illegally in the first 11 months of 2024, according to Frontex data. That represents a decrease of about 40 per cent from 2023, and is several orders of size smaller than the numbers seen in 2015, when around 1 …
Read More »Exclusive: Washington using Nile dam dispute to pressure Egypt into accepting Gaza expulsion plan
A senior Trump administration official met Egyptian leaders in Cairo last week to discuss a plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza. The United States has reportedly used Egypt’s water security crisis as leverage to pressure Cairo into accepting the plan of forcibly relocation of Gaza’s Palestinians, according to The New …
Read More »Trump Announces ‘Levantine Riviera’: The Ethnic Cleansing and Terraforming Mega-Project of Tomorrow!
Trump stunned the world today with his blithely unapologetic plans for the mass ethnic cleansing and terraforming of Gaza, after receiving a “golden pager” memento from a smirking Netanyahu—a more cretinous tableau could hardly be imagined: The amount of contradiction leaves one’s head spinning like a dreidel. “No one can …
Read More »Erdogan and Syria’s New President Al-Sharaa Meet in Ankara to Discuss Defense Pact
Latest Developments Turkey and Syria to Agree on a Defense Partnership: Syria’s new transitional President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are expected to discuss a joint defense pact that will include establishing Turkish airbases in the vast central region in Central Syria as well as training for …
Read More »What is Israel’s strategy in south Lebanon?
Lebanon’s health ministry reported on Sunday that Israeli forces, after missing the agreed withdrawal deadline, killed 24 Lebanese civilians and injured 130 more after opening fire on protesters. The incident came hours before news broke that the deadline was extended until 18 February. Tensions had flared in southern Lebanon as …
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