On 10 February 2018, an IAI’s F-16 was shot down by the Syrian Air Defense Force. According to the Israeli story, their aircraft was shot down during the reprisal operation against Iran-operated Syrian base, from where the Iranian drone took off the same day and made an incursion into Israeli territory. Allegedly, it flew along…
Near the end of last month, Haaretz reported that, according to an expert hydrologist, 97 percent of Gaza’s drinking water has been contaminated by sewage and salt. The UN also confirmed that this was the case early last year, and clearly, the situation has remained unchanged even up until 2018. Robert Piper, the UN’s local coordinator…
At the beginning of February the British prime minister, Theresa May, visited China, taking along her International Trade Minister and about fifty business leaders, which was a none-too-subtle signal that her trip involved rather more than her intention to “intensify the ‘Golden Era’ in UK-China relations.” According to the official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, the so-called ‘Golden…
