It’s Almost Time for a Chinese-Pakistani LEMOA

June 27, 2018

China and Pakistan should clinch their own Logistics Exchange Memorandum Of Agreement (LEMOA) to use one another’s military facilities if India continues with its pro-American pivot, though Beijing an…

Turkey’s European Dream may be Over, Is the Sultan Ready for Eurasia?

June 27, 2018

Opinion

To the utter despair of stoic defenders of “Western values,” Europe is now condemned to suffer two populist autocracies on its eastern borders: Putin’s Russia and Erdogan’s Turkey. For the EU’s politi…

The Saudi-Egyptian Rivalry: How a Football Match Reflects Geopolitical Power Relations

June 27, 2018

Opinion

The defeat of the Egyptian national football team by their Saudi Arabian counterparts in the 2018 World Cup can be viewed as a metaphor for the triumph of the Saudis over Egypt after an intense and so…

Space Command Is About to Launch!

June 27, 2018

Opinion

I thought that perhaps I had tuned into John Oliver or to Saturday Night Live in error, but no doubt about it, there was an unmistakable President Donald Trump speaking before an audience at the Natio…

US Senate Bans Sale of F-35s to Turkey: Dealing with an Unreliable Partner

June 27, 2018

Opinion

On June 19, the Senate passed a draft defense bill for FY 2019 that would halt the transfer of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft to Turkey, until the secretary of state certifies that Turkey wi…

What’s So Urgent About Kushner and Netanyahu’s Recent Meetings?

June 27, 2018

Opinion

There are number of questions raised by the recent visit made by Kushner and Greenblatt to the Middle East, in particular their repeated and prolonged meetings with Israeli officials. Israeli sources …

What’s Really Behind Anti-China Protests in Vietnam?

June 27, 2018

Opinion

US and European media outlets reported anti-Chinese protests across Vietnam. Claims regarding numbers varied greatly from several hundred to others claiming several thousand. The Western media was par…

Two Souls

June 27, 2018

Opinion

“As long as in the heart, within, a Jewish soul is yearning…” thus starts the official translation of Israel’s national anthem. Actually, the Hebrew original says “the soul of a Jew”, but the translat…