For more than a decade, Israel has clashed with Hamas in Gaza, with cycles of violence defined by periods of intense fighting followed by relative lulls. This brief summarizes a report focusing on a five-year period of this conflict — from the end of Operation Cast Lead in 2009 to …

On a Shabbat morning and a religious holiday, on October 7, Hamas operatives invaded Israel and carried out a Hamas Einsatzgruppen attack.[1] This war should not to be compared to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Israel was surprised by invading armies of Arab states. Hamas’s operatives cannot also not …

The Biden administration deployed an aircraft carrier strike group in a bid to deter a multi-front war against Israel, but lack of a formal defense treaty with Israel and Congressional authorities could inhibit Washington’s ability to respond. The Pentagon has begun surging air defense munitions and other equipment to Israel’s …

The Israeli airstrikes and decision to cut off water and power supply to the already besieged Gaza Strip have the residents on edge. The Israel-Hamas military escalation in the Gaza Strip has caused a humanitarian disaster for residents of the small coastal enclave on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. …

Il y a des raisons de croire que les Anglo-Saxons vont promouvoir le thème de la destruction du droit de veto «dans un paquet» lorsque sera abordé le thème de l’élargissement du Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU au Brésil, à l’Inde et peut-être à l’Union africaine. La session de l’Assemblée …

L’armée ukrainienne subit de lourdes pertes lors de la contre-offensive, et bien que cela ne soit pas reconnu à Kiev, ce n’est pas la première fois que certaines brigades des forces armées ukrainiennes sont retirées du front vers l’arrière pour restaurer leur efficacité au combat. Par exemple, la 47e brigade …

Western Civilization exploited Slavic Civilization’s wayward Ukrainian component upon its post-Soviet independence as a sovereign state via the cultivation of extreme nationalism in order to divide-and-rule its Russian-centric Slavic opponent. By launching its special operation, Russia wasn’t engaging in an “imperial war of conquest”, but attempting to avert the West’s …

The disastrous consequences of oligarchs meddling in politics are too well known to need more attention here. But what about the plutocrats’ record? The question merits attention, because right now two American plutocrats are engaged in erratic attempts at solving two of the hottest international problems. Elon Musk, the owner …

In an unprecedented display of both capacity and terror, Gaza-based group Hamas mounted a mass-scale terrorist attack against Israel, using land, air, and sea raids, killing hundreds of Israeli citizens, and fracturing the state’s “aura of invincibility”. It is also known that Hamas has taken dozens of people hostage. The …

No country can survive without its sole land connection to markets, trade, and connectivity corridors, but the US will see Beirut collapse before allowing Damascus back in. As only one of two Levantine states flanking the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon’s geographic location is of great interest to the various road, rail, …