A new Israeli government has been created at last, albeit mostly made up of the old one: the country’s leadership is currently split between Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu and The Blue and White’s Benny Gantz, a government sure to have its points of strength as well as serious weaknesses. Above all it came as a compromise to avert a fourth general election, ...
There has been a serious government crisis in Israel for more than a year. Israel’s Supreme Court finally approved a coalition deal between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival-turned-ally Benny Gantz. With this agreement, the government crisis that continued more than 1 year in and caused 3 early elections ended. Netanyahu’s Likud and the Blue-White party announced on Wednesday ...
The state of Israel, which has been isolating itself and struggling with the political crises during the pandemic, has been blockading the Palestinians living in occupied Jerusalem from prevention and treatment services. The director of the National Coalition for the Human Rights in Jerusalem Zekeriyya Avde says that Israel had not done any Covid-19 tests on the Palestinians living in ...
The New York Times reports that, against the backdrop of the novel coronavirus pandemic in Iran, a number of officials in the Trump administration are insisting on the need to take advantage of the country’s weakening and strike. In the meantime, a systematic policy of pressure on the Iranian authorities to reduce the role of Hashd Shaabi units, as well ...
The Russian military delegation has arrived in Ankara on March 5th, as the agreement reached in Moscow proposed. During the dialog between the two delegations in Ankara, the details of the joint patrol on the M4 highway and the security of the 12 km wide strip, was discussed. After the attack on the Turkish forces in Idlib, Operation Spring Shield ...
The situation in northern Syria has reached a critical point. After a Syrian airstrike killed 33 Turkish soldiers on February 27, Ankara launched large-scale military operations against the Syrian army. As a result, Turkish relations with Russia have reached their lowest point since the crisis in 2015. At the same time, the situation in Idlib has begun to negatively impact ...
US President Donald Trump and his family met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India, went sightseeing and took pictures against the backdrop of the Taj Mahal and the cricket field in Gujarat. Meanwhile, bloody clashes between Muslims and Hindus took place across the country. While the leaders talked about joint commitment to fight radical Islamism, fierce battles between ...
73 years after the UN resolution 181 on the partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jewish settlers, the Palestinian question seems to be facing two paradoxical fates, resolution, or movement into a new bloody turmoil. The so called “Deal of the Century” presented by US President Donald Trump purports to be a solution to the question of coexistence. The solution ...
On February 3, 2020 a truly landmark event took place– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the head of the Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in Uganda, and agreed to start cooperation to normalize relations between the countries. Israel and Sudan have no diplomatic relations. The former leader of the country, Omar Bashir, was an outspoken opponent ...
The recent announcement of his “Deal of the Century”, a unilateral “solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is nothing more than a statement of American approval for Israeli leadership of the Arab world. The maps, borders and political features were all designed after the First World War. The deal also suggests a permanent adjustment of the centuries old political borders of ...