Tamara Ryzhenkova Egypt’s reaction to the events in the Gaza Strip has drawn renewed attention to the US-Israeli plan of relocating the Palestinian population living in Gaza to the Sinai Peninsula, which is now a part of Egypt. In former times, this question was repeatedly raised during negotiations with Cairo. Now, it looks like Egyptian…
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The Eastern Mediterranean Quartet: Big Talk, Less Action
Mohamad Hasan Sweidan Forget the pipelines. The growing détente between Eastern Mediterranean neighbors Israel, Cyprus, and Greece is being leveraged mainly to counter Turkish influence and expand Washington’s presence in the region. On 4 September, Israel, Greece, and Cyprus met at their ninth tripartite summit to endorse the wave of Arab normalization with Tel Aviv. The…
Turkey and France: Unfriendly Neighbors in the Mediterranean Region
Steven Sahiounie Turkey and France are not far apart on a map of the Mediterranean Sea; however, they are miles apart on political views and culture, even though both are NATO members, and Turkey’s army represents the largest, and strongest of all NATO members. Turkey has been at odds with France over policies in Syria, Libya,…
Damascus Condemns French Foreign Ministry Visit to Northern Syria
The Cradle The Syrian Foreign Ministry strongly denounced the visit an illegal violation of the country’s territorial integrity The Syrian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on 18 July condemning a visit to northern Syria by a French delegation earlier this month. The visit took place on 10 July, during which a delegation from France’s Foreign Ministry – which entered…
Syrian Refugees in Germany Face Danger
Steven Sahiounie Lebanese clans living in Germany, who are involved in drug trafficking, have caused death and mayhem. The German police responded to a massive brawl which broke out on June 16 in front of a restaurant in Essen that left a 23-year-old Syrian man dead, several German police officers injured, and 150 Lebanese arrested….
Protests Draw Attention to France’s Widening Racial Gap and Immigrants’ Plight
F.M. Shakil Major factors in the persistence of this division include the spatial and social segregation of many minorities in France, particularly the disenfranchised Muslim minority. The week-long unrest in France that was brought on by the fatal police shooting of Nahel, a 17-year-old who was later buried amid violent protests, has since subsided, but…
European Parliament Committee Recommends EU Collaborate with ICC to Probe Israeli War Crimes
Peoples Dispatch The European Parliament The resolution by the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee regretted “”the limited progress on the ICC investigations in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the occupied Palestinian territories” and called for helping the ICC and its prosecutor move forward with the investigation and the prosecution The European Parliament’s…
Sweden is Encouraging Quran Burning
Steven Sahiounie An immigrant in Sweden, Salwan Momika, burnt the Quran on the first day of the Muslim holiday, Eid al Adha. He first stomped on the book, kicked it, wrapped it in bacon strips which is a forbidden food under Muslim laws, and then burnt the book while standing on a stage in front of onlookers outside a…
France’s Foreign Policy Towards the Arab World is Colonial, Backward, and Detached from Reality, says Syria
Peoples Dispatch France’s Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna. (Photo: France Diplomacy/Twitter) Former colonial power France had supported the anti-Assad forces in Syria with the objective of regime change, which prolonged the war in the country. France also became part of the US-led illegal unilateral sanctions regime against Syria In a strongly worded statement on Wednesday, May…
Germany’s Annalena Baerbock Warns Saudi Arabia against Syria Normalization
Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned during her visit to Saudi Arabia against what she called “unconditional normalization” of relations with Syrian President Bashar Assad. Baerbock said Assad should not be “rewarded for the most serious human rights violations on a daily basis.” These rogue policies and statements coming from the U.S. and Europe show…
Von der Leyen, Borrell and the 75th Anniversary of His Colonial Garden in Palestine
Daniel Lobato ‘Israel’ only has a countdown of less than twenty years ahead of it. The sooner it decolonizes its structures, the less will be the suffering for the natives, and the less the price to pay and the suffering that will grow day by day for the settler society. On Wednesday, April 26, Ursula…
French Intelligence Infiltrated Lafarge, Collaborated with Extremists in Syria
The Cradle Bruno Lafont says the French intelligence service was behind the decision to continue operations in Syria and pay off ‘terrorist groups’ like ISIS In an interview with Liberation published on 31 March, Bruno Lafont, the former CEO of Lafarge, accused French intelligence of having infiltrated the company in Syria, where it collaborated with extremist groups,…
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