Blog republica.com, 05.12.2017 Inocencio F. Arias, embajador (r) y columnista españolNarcisista y bravucón, el Presidente de los Estados Unidos alardeaba hace días de haber conseguido más logros legislativos en un año que sus predecesores. Estaba fabulando, su cosecha en estos once meses en el poder ha sido bastante escasa. Sin embargo, en las postrimerías del 2017 parece que...
Mensaje del Secretario General en el Día de la Solidaridad con el pueblo palestino
Comunicado Nueva York, 29.11.2017 Secretario General de la ONU
The Question of Palestine is inextricably linked with the history of the United Nations and is one of the longest unresolved issues on the Organization’s agenda. Seventy years since the adoption of General Assembly Resolution 181, a sovereign...
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Columna El Comercio (Ecuador), 21.11.2017 Francisco Carrión M., embajador (r) y ex viceministro de RREE ecuatoriano
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Columna Project-Syndicate, 17.11.2017 Shlomo Ben-Ami, ex ministro de RREE israelí y vicepresident del Toledo International Center for Peace
Lebanon will become the next battlefield between the Middle East's Sunni and Shia powers
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Columna Consortiumnews.com, 17.11.2017 Alastair Crooke, diplomático destacado en la inteligencia británica y diplomacia UE
- President Trump and his son-in-law bet that the young Saudi crown prince could execute a plan to reshape the Mideast, but the scheme quickly unraveled revealing a dangerous amateur hour
Saudi Arabia’s Desperate Gamble
Columna Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico, con destacado rol en la inteligencia de su país y la diplomacia UE, y fundador del Conflicts Forum
Furious over defeat in Syria, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince is gambling again, arresting rivals at home and provoking a political crisis in Lebanon, but he may lack the geopolitical...
The Balfour Declaration still divides the Middle East 100 years later
Reportaje The Washington Post, 02.11.2017 Ishaan TharoorIn a year brimming with profoundly symbolic centennials, Thursday marks perhaps the most politically fraught one. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will appear in London alongside his British counterpart, Theresa May, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, a 67-word missive from Britain’s then-foreign secretary expressing his government's support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The Nov....
A last attempt of the US to hold on in the Middle East: a war with IRAN?
Carta OpinionGlobal, 10.11.2017 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés-cónsul de Chile en BeirutFor the last ten days, successive events have shaken the already chaotic political life of the Middle East amid the increase of violent verbal attacks of high Saudi officials towards Iran, backed by an outspoken US president Trump. The still mysterious resignation of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saaduddine...
Israeli-Saudi Tandem Adjusts to Syria Loss
Columna Consortiumnews, 04.11.2017 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático de la inteligencia británica y diplomacia UE y fundador de Conflicts Forum
Facing defeat in the proxy war in Syria, the Israeli-Saudi tandem is planning a new front against Hezbollah, presaged by Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri’s sudden resignation
It seems that matters are coming to a head in the Middle East. For many states,...Trump’s Scary Nuclear Doctrine
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