Middle Orient

The “Beijing Declaration”, signed by 14 Palestinian factions, represents a significant step forward in negotiations between the groups, although it didn’t detail how to actually achieve Palestinian unification. Leaders of Hamas, Fatah and other Palestinian factions have agreed, after three days of talks in Beijing, to form a national unity …

On July 19, 2024, an explosion occurred in the center of Tel Aviv, killing one civilian andinjuring eight others. The IDF spokesperson confirmed that Tel Aviv had been attacked by anIranian-made UAV launched in Yemen by the Houthis. It was the first successful Houthi UAVattack on Israeli territory since the …

The Mounting Pressure to Fight Hezbollah in Lebanon—and Why That Is So Dangerous More than nine months into its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel now appears closer than ever to a second, even larger war with Hezbollah on its northern border. In June, the Israel Defense Forces …

Une délégation turque dirigée par le ministre des Affaires étrangères Hakan Fidan a visité le Niger. Selon des sources officieuses, Ankara s’intéresse à l’accès aux gisements d’uranium, dont le géant nucléaire français Orano pourrait bientôt perdre totalement le droit d’exploitation. En échange, il est probable que la junte au pouvoir …

Israeli settlers are escalating state-sanctioned violence and annexation ambitions in the occupied West Bank, exploiting the world’s distraction with the war on Gaza to legalize outposts, land-grab, and advance ethnic cleansing against Palestinians. While the world’s attention has been diverted to Tel Aviv’s relentless military offensive in Gaza, the Israeli …

The growing military collaboration between Israel and Cyprus has intensified Turkiye’s security concerns in the Eastern Mediterranean. Will this trigger Ankara to beef up its military footprint in Northern Cyprus, following similar observations and warnings by Lebanon’s Hezbollah? Israel’s relentless military onslaught against civilians in Gaza has not only embroiled …

Hewlett Packard, Motorola, and other western tech conglomerates have been deeply involved in providing the technological infrastructure that supports Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. This is how they profit from the oppression of Palestinians. On 10 July, Hebrew newspaper Maariv reported that 46,000 Israeli businesses have been forced to shut …

Is Qatar a neutral mediator between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation state, or is it secretly leveraging its financial ties to sway Israeli politics in its favor? As Israel continues to refuse to negotiate a reasonable end to its brutal aggression on Gaza, Tel Aviv has taken to launch …

Ansarallah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi has upped the ante, threatening Riyadh with huge economic and military consequences if the Saudis continue to align with US policies and support the occupation state. In a strategically-timed message to the Saudi rulers, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the leader of the Yemeni Ansarallah movement, warned …

Tel Aviv’s plan to launch a political phase in its ill-conceived Gaza war is likely to end in strategic disaster, just as US artificial constructs failed in Vietnam. One cannot simply sidestep complex social dynamics and strong local resistance to erect false leaders atop synthetic ‘bubbles.’ Lessons from Vietnam: Why …