February, 2024

• 9 February

  Escalation scenarios between Iran and the United States in Syria and Iraq

  

  The US-Iranian escalation has taken a new turn when Washington announced strikes on command and control centers, intelligence facilities, and weapon storage facilities used by Iran-backed militias to attack American forces and the International Coalition. Through a series of attacks, the United States targeted 85 locations in Syria and Iraq, …

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• 9 February

  Israel’s Self-Destruction

  

  One bright day in April 1956, Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), drove south to Nahal Oz, a recently established kibbutz near the border of the Gaza Strip. Dayan came to attend the funeral of 21-year-old Roi Rotberg, who had been murdered the …

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• 9 February

  Conflit M23 dans l’est de la RDC: intensification des combats dans le Masisi

  

  Les combats entre la rébellion du M23 et les forces gouvernementales se sont intensifiés mercredi dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo autour de Sake, cité considérée comme stratégique sur la route de Goma, ont indiqué des habitants. Ces derniers jours, les affrontements dans le territoire de Masisi, à …

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• 9 February

  Tyrants and expendable migrants: Dictators play with people’s lives to gain leverage

  

  Illegal immigration through the U.S.-Mexican border is at an all-time high, straining public resources and fueling political tension in the United States. Much of what moves migrants to undertake the perilous journey is known: economic hardship, conflict, organized crime and political repression. But what is missing from our debate is …

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• 9 February

  Why Turkey’s Syria Policy May Be About to Change

  

  As municipal elections near, the Erdogan government feels it is facing a dangerous situation that imposes a new military intervention. Several threads are unraveling in northern Syria, northern Iraq, and the broader region, which might bring the Turkish leadership to revise its Syria policy. It has become almost customary on …

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• 9 February

  Has the Gaza War Helped Hezbollah?

  

  While Iran has been able to mobilize its region-wide networks and reaffirm its regional importance, the story is more complicated in Lebanon. While few doubt that Iran and Hezbollah knew of Hamas’s intention to attack Israeli towns around Gaza, it remains unclear whether they knew of the timing, or even …

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• 9 February

  Breaching the ‘Iron Wall’: How Palestinians Crushed Jabotinsky’s Century-Old Ideas

  

  It seemed strange, if not out of context, when Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin told Arutz Sheva-Israel National News that “Muslims are not afraid of us anymore”. Feiglin’s comments were made on October 25, less than three weeks following the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Flood operation and the genocidal Israeli war which followed. …

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• 9 February

  Deal With Iran Politically and Diplomatically, Not Militarily

  

  There is a consensus on the right and the left that the only way to deal with Iran is with military force. The conservative Chicken Hawks in the Senate and the House of Representatives believe targeting Iran—and not merely Iranian proxies—is essential. Senator Lindsay Graham (R/SC) wants to “hit them …

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• 9 February

  Close Down UNRWA

  

  Western nations must not continue to contribute to a UN agency that is effectively controlled by a terrorist organization. Last week, Australian foreign minister Penny Wong indicated that Canberra may soon resume government funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), …

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• 9 February

  Lebanon Rejects Proposal to Curb Hezbollah

  

  Latest Developments Lebanon rejected a proposal on February 6 for Hezbollah’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon, as mandated by UN Security Council Resolution 1701. The United States and four European countries are reportedly calling for Hezbollah to retreat several kilometers north as part of a diplomatic effort to defuse tensions at …

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