July, 2020

• 21 July

  Lebanon's New 'Great Satan'

  Hezbollah’s financial crisis is the result of US sanctions on its patrons in Iran, which had been supporting the terrorist group annually with about $700 million from oil revenues…. — Fahim al-Hamid, Saudi journalist, okaz.com.sa, March 22, 2020.

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• 21 July

  Lessons from the polish opposition

  After years of misrule under Poland’s Law and Justice party, a candidate representing the mainstream opposition almost managed to wrest back control of the presidency. In fact, anti-populists everywhere should see Rafal Trzaskowski’s near-miss campaign as a model for their own efforts.Although Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski did not come out …

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• 21 July

  Were Prosecutors Right to Publicise Charges Against Kosovo’s Thaci?

  The announcement that war crimes charges had been filed against Hashim Thaci and Kadri Veseli caused a political storm, but questions persist about whether prosecutors in The Hague were justified in making the accusations public.

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• 21 July

  The Netherlands Looks Again at its Controversial Role in Srebrenica

  Young Bosnian-Dutch activists are campaigning to raise the low level of public knowledge about the 1995 Srebrenica genocide and the Netherlands’ role in the UN peacekeeping mission that did not prevent the mass killings of Bosniaks.

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• 21 July

  Forget Expectations: German EU Presidency no Magic Wand for the Balkans

  It is foolhardy to think Germany’s presidency of the EU or the bloc’s revival of Belgrade-Pristina talks signal a radical shift in enthusiasm for enlargement to the Western Balkans. Balkan states themselves must make concrete plans if they are to deepen relations with the bloc.

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• 21 July

  Chinese Military Exercises Threaten to Invade Taiwan

  China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is currently staging a military exercise across from the Taiwan Strait that looks as if it plans to culminate in an amphibious assault on an island in the South China Sea.

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• 21 July

  Will All District Attorneys Now Be Empowered to Investigate All Future Presidents?

  It should come as no surprise, therefore, that presidents are exempted from certain laws that are applicable to the rest of us. They cannot be prosecuted while serving in office. That, too, is the law.

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• 21 July

  Germany: Two Al-Qaeda-linked Syrians arrested on suspicion of aiding group

  Suspects accused of killing ‘person protected under int’l humanitarian law’ Two Syrians have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of helping to carry out an execution by an Islamist terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda, prosecutors said Monday.

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• 21 July

  Russia says joint patrol with Turkey struck by bomb in Syria

  A roadside bomb planted by Syrian militants detonated near a joint Russian-Turkish patrol in northern Syria on Tuesday morning, injuring three Russian soldiers, the Russian Defence Ministry said.

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• 21 July

  Israeli research center finds 28 new Hezbollah missile launch sites

  ALMA says never-before-published sites are deep in heart of residential areas in Beirut, next to hospitals, restaurants, schools.

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