Opinión Consortiumnews, 20.07.2015 Jonathan Marshall, investigador periodístico independiente(Part I) Neocons and the mainstream U.S. media place all the blame for the Syrian civil war on President Bashar al-Assad and Iran, but there is another side of the story in which Syria’s olive branches to the U.S. and Israel were spurned and a reckless drive for “regime change”.Syria’s current leader,...
A Mideast Games of Thrones
Opinión Information Clearing House, 21.07.2015 Patrick J. Buchanan, escritor y columnista conservador norteamericanoAs President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is compared to Richard Nixon’s opening to China, Bibi Netanyahu must know how Chiang Kai-shek felt as he watched his old friend Nixon toasting Mao in Peking. The Iran nuclear deal is not on the same geostrategic level. Yet...
El peligro del terrorismo islámico en América Latina
Columna Infobae, 22.07.2015 Federico Gaon, licenciado en RRII y consultor político argentinoYa hemos sido advertidos, y ya hemos pagado con sangre el precio de la inacción, la inoperancia y la corrupción. Pero a vista de algunos en Latinoamérica el terrorismo parecería ser una invención de la imaginación. Una excusa yankee para justificar intervenciones armadas y designios imperiales....
A Net Assessment on the Middle East
Análisis Geopolitical Weekly, 09.06.2015 George Friedman, fundador y presidente Stratfor Global IntelligenceThe term "Middle East" has become enormously elastic. The name originated with the British Foreign Office in the 19th century. The British divided the region into the Near East, the area closest to the United Kingdom and most of North Africa; the Far East, which was...
Why Israel Should Not Exist: An Illegitimate consequence of Western Imperialism
Opinión Counterpunch, 19.05.2015 Garry Leech, periodista, escritor y profesor en la Cape Breton University de CanadáBy suggesting that the state of Israel should not exist, I am not being anti-Semitic. I am, however, being anti-Zionist. There is a distinct difference. An anti-Semite is someone who is prejudiced against Jews. An anti-Zionist, on the other hand, is opposed...
Islamophobia: Israel’s Blessing; Israel’s Curse
Opinión Counterpunch, 8-10.05.2015 Andrew Levine, académico del Institute for Policy StudiesIslamophobia and anti-Semitism have a great deal in common. Except that one targets Jews and the other Muslims, the two seem almost the same, even allowing for differences in the affected populations. To produce an Islamophobic diatribe, take a typical anti-Semitic rant, substitute “Muslim” for “Jew,” and voilà. Both Islamophobia...
Did Money Seal Israeli-Saudi Alliance?
Informe Consortiumnews, 15.04.2015 Robert Parry, periodista norteamericanoThe odd-couple relationship between Saudi Arabia and Israel may have been sealed with more than a mutual desire to kiss-off Iran. According to an intelligence source, there was a dowry involved, too, with the Saudis reportedly giving Israel some $16 billion. For more than half a century, Saudi Arabia has tried...
Israel after the Elections
Carta OpinionGlobal, 21.03.2015 Riad Saade, empresario y consul honorario de Chile en BeirutThose interested in Middle East Affairs, have followed for the past months the passionate elections of Israeli Knesset (Parliament) Israel has always been isolated in the Arab Middle East. Peace treaties with Egypt...
Netanyahu no es creible
Editorial El País, 21.03.2015El primer ministro israelí no ha perdido un minuto para desdecirse de su aparentemente rotundo no preelectoral a la idea de un Estado palestino. La aceptación ahora de esa posibilidad, que él apoyó por vez primera en 2009, no la hace más verosímil que el martes pasado. Netanyahu, consumado estratega, sabe simplemente que...