Conflict in Libya Intensifies
July 1, 2020
Despite international community’s efforts to resolve the Libyan conflict via peaceful means, it is intensifying and new participants are becoming embroiled in it. On June 21, while inspecting Egyptian…
Egypt
Ethiopia’s Disinterest in Dam Negotiations Can Ignite War with Egypt
June 28, 2020
Another attempt to resolve the dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over a large Chinese-funded hydroelectric dam built on the Nile River has failed. This has increased tensions over control of the most…
How Washington Intends to Triumph
June 27, 2020
For two decades Washington has been trying to "reshape" the "Greater Middle East", an arbitrarily defined region stretching from Afghanistan to Morocco. However, over the last three years two strategi…
Could the Jewels of the Mediterranean Unleash a World War?
June 27, 2020
In recent days, the situation in the Mediterranean region’s eastern section has grown ever more tense. The discovery here of huge natural gas reserves has exacerbated not only simmering regional confl…
“Greater Israel” and North Africa
June 11, 2020
In his diaries, the father of modern political Zionism, Theodor Herzl, wrote that the area of the Jewish State stretched from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates. The “Greater Israel” (or the “Yinon”)…
Why did US Start Actively Supporting Egypt?
May 21, 2020
Washington threatening to potentially impose sanctions against Egypt at the end of 2019 if Cairo went ahead with its purchase of military aircraft from Russia became “a new source of friction” for the…
Russia is About to Face its Biggest Test Yet in Syria
April 24, 2020
An American reader tired of corona journalism sent me a plea this week: “There must be plenty of cruelty being unleashed by the gangsters-in-chief across the ‘Mideast’ that simply isn’t making it into…
Denial, Fear and Dictatorship: Egypt’s Coronavirus Disaster
March 26, 2020
Every country has struggled to come to terms with the reality of a deadly pandemic. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei's first reaction was to call coronavirus a "ridiculous disease" us…