La décision du géant maritime chinois COSCO de suspendre ses opérations en Israël pourrait conduire d’autres entreprises à faire de même. Dans l’industrie du transport maritime, la décision de COSCO interroge. Les observateurs israéliens se demandent si cette décision est liée au soutien chinois au Hamas ou si elle est …

Back in 1968, my father announced that, if Richard Nixon were elected president that November, he was going to move us all to Canada. I’m not sure who “us all” actually was, since my younger brother and I were then living with my mother and my parents had been divorced …

It’s now three months since Hamas’s vicious attack on October 7th and, sadly, there appears to be no end in sight. It was a well-planned attack that effectively provoked Israel’s horrendous and ongoing assault on Gaza. As has been endlessly reported, around 1,200 Israelis, many of them young people attending …

As the proxy war winds down and all players begin preparing for the post-conflict future, whenever it comes to pass, it’s worthwhile to once again share this fact in order to reduce the chances that any of his people fall for the West’s plot to turn them and Ukrainians into …

The Iran Update provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities abroad that undermine regional stability and threaten US forces and interests. It also covers events and trends that affect the stability and decision-making of the Iranian regime. The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute …

Although Iranian regime spokesmen are denying any connection between Iran and the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by the Iranian regime’s proxy Hamas, Iranian regime officials are glorifying this attack by stressing Iran’s overall victory over the West in general and the U.S. and Israel in particular.[1] In ideological …

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the deadly twin blasts near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani in southern Iran. At least 84 people were killed and 284 injured in the blasts on Wednesday, state-run news agency IRNA reported, in what was the deadliest attack in Iran since …

The food, energy, and debt crises in the Middle East and North Africa have exacerbated structural economic weaknesses of low- and middle-income countries—particularly Egypt, Tunisia, and Lebanon—creating mounting pressure on domestic political orders and worsening these countries’ geopolitical marginalization. Introduction Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the Middle East and …

The combat arena: The IDF forces continued their integrated ground maneuver in the Gaza Strip, focusing on Gaza City and Khan Yunis. According to reports, they completed the dismantling of Hamas’ military-terrorist facilities in the northern Gaza Strip, although they continued confronting terrorist squads on the ground. The Palestinians reported …

How Beijing Is Exploiting Israel’s War to Win Over the Global South Over the past year, as Western diplomats shuttled frantically from one end of the world to the other in their struggle to contain an ever-growing succession of wars, crises, and other calamities—from Ukraine to Darfur to Nagorno-Karabakh to …