Why should Egypt be searching for a formula that would facilitate Hamas’s return to Palestinian politics? Should Egypt and the rest of the international community not instead be demanding that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad surrender their weapons, dismantle their military structures, and disappear from Palestinian political life? This new …

The Western commentariat filed the Mecca agreement under a comfortable heading. When Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement on August 7 — an armed attack on one to be treated as an attack on all — the reflexive label was “Islamic NATO,” a Sunni bloc, …

La rupture entre la Russie et l’Europe ne peut pas être comprise seulement comme une fracture géopolitique. Elle repose sur une divergence plus ancienne entre l’Orient orthodoxe, héritier de Byzance, et l’Occident latin, recomposé après l’effondrement du monde romain occidental au Ve siècle. Les lignes de front actuelles, les sanctions, …