Columna Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico, con destacado rol en la inteligencia de su país y la diplomacia UE, y fundador del Conflicts Forum
Saudi Arabia’s Desperate Gamble
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
Columna Consortiumnews, 12.10.2017 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático destacado en la inteligencia británica y diplomacia de la UE, y fundador del Conflicts ForumThere are acres of print analyzing “will he, or won’t he” in respect to President Trump taking military action in North Korea. And equally, volumes on what Trump may intend to do in respect of Iran: Is...
How Syria’s Victory Reshapes Mideast
Columna Consortiumnews, 30.09.2017 Alastair Crooke, ex diplomático británico destacado en inteligencia y diplomacia europea y fundador de Conflicts Forum
The failure of the U.S.-Israeli-Saudi “regime change” project in Syria changes the future of the Mideast, possibly ushering in an era of greater secularism and tolerance
Plainly, Syria’s success – notwithstanding the caution of President Bashar al-Assad in saying that...Insightful Analysis of Syria`s Prospects
Carta OpinionGlobal, 03.11.2017 Riad Fouad Saade, cónsul honrario de Chile en Beirut y empresario libanésIn an ever-changing Middle East, destroyed by the chaotic policy of the USA and its Israeli local partner (or mastermind?) and while indigenous populations are suffering hell for the past 50 years, culminating lately with the wiping out of cities in Iraq, Syria...
Israel Resists Calls to Suspend Military Sales to Myanmar, an Old Friend in Arms
Artículo World Politics Review, 10.10.2017 Eli Meixler, periodista independiente y fotógrafo basado en Hong Kong[caption id="attachment_23462" align="alignleft" width="401"]
Members of the Islamic Movement in Israel protest Myanmar’s treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority. (AP Oded Balilty).[/caption]
As Israel’s High Court weighs a ban on weapons sales to Myanmar, where the United... Inside Israel’s Secret Program to Get Rid of African Refugees
Artículo Foreign Policy, 27.06.2017 Andrew Green, periodista independiente
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They were promised asylum somewhere closer to home. Then they were discarded — often in a war zone
Israel’s Irrational Rationality
Reseña de libros New York Review of Books, 22.06.2017 David Shulman, profesor (U. Hebrea de Tel Aviv)
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The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East , by Guy Laron (Yale University Press)
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The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine, by Nathan Thrall (Metropolitan)
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In Search of Modern Palestinian Nationhood , by Matti...