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May 22, 2020

The ‘Clean Break’ Doctrine: A Modern-Day Sykes-Picot Waging War and Havoc in the Middle East

In 1996 a task force, led by Richard Perle, produced a policy document titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” for Benjamin Netanyahu, who was then in his first term as Prime Minister of Israel, as a how-to manual on approaching regime change in the Middle East and for the destruction of the Oslo Accords. The...

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April 22, 2020

Arab Countries Face Real Shake-Up of Economies and Their Geopolitics Amid Corona Crisis

Gulf Arab countries have nowhere to look for a bailout of their own private sector, like in the UAE, once the envy of the Arab world, as the banks just can’t pull it off. New friendships can flourish as underdogs like Morocco come out winners. But what about Iran? It’s often said that the Achilles’ heel of Arab countries is...

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March 5, 2020

Imagining Return: Palestinians in Jordan’s Sprawling Refugee Camps Still Yearn for Home

Abna’a Gaza (the Children of Gaza) is a status given to Palestinian refugees who fled from the Gaza Strip to Jordan in 1967. They fled during the 1967 war and consequent Israeli occupation of Gaza. Today, over five decades later, these Palestinians who originally fled to Gaza from their homes in greater Palestine in 1948 number 150,000. They remain mostly...

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February 18, 2020

Trump’s Vanished ‘Liberal Middles’

Take Jordan (or Lebanon) as an example: Both have a broken economic model. One, (Lebanon), has had its huge deficits financed by expatriate remittances; and the other (Jordan), has had its budget deficits (6% of GDP), until now covered by annual stipends provided by Gulf States and the US (the EU provides relatively little financial subsidy). For both, these external...

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November 17, 2019

Is Libya the New Syria for Putin’s Secret Army?

Two years after Russian President Vladimir Putin came to blows with his then prime minister Dmitri Medvedev over a Russian abstention from a UN resolution which paved the way for the fall of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, a mysterious – but high quality – documentary appeared on the internet in Russia. A mysterious documentary An anonymous narrator presented Medvedev...

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October 10, 2019

Learning Lessons: Protesters Stay One Step Ahead of Rulers

There’s a déjà vu feeling to this year’s wave of protests across the Arab world. It’s not that this year saw the toppling of the leaders of Algeria and Sudan as a result of popular revolts, a harking back to the 2011 protests that overthrew the leaders of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. It’s that it’s the protesters in Iraq,Lebanon,...

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April 19, 2019

The “Deal of the Century” (2): The US Wants Iran to Forget About Palestine and Accept Negotiations

Israel is using its influence over the US establishment to try to impose the “Deal of the Century” to enable Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to officially occupy the West Bank. This would violate the Oslo agreement signed in 1993 and legalise all illegal Israeli settlements in Oslo-designated zone C of the occupied West Bank. The countries directly concerned in the...

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April 18, 2019

The “Deal of the Century” Won’t Go Through: Split Among Palestinians Supports Israel (1)

For over a year now, the Israeli “Deal of the Century” for Palestine has been endorsed by the US establishment and is now echoing to the four corners of the world. The two novices in foreign policy, US President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, manoeuvred by Israel from behind the scenes, are trying to promote it among Arab...

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The ‘Clean Break’ Doctrine: A Modern-Day Sykes-Picot Waging War and Havoc in the Middle East

Arab Countries Face Real Shake-Up of Economies and Their Geopolitics Amid Corona Crisis

Imagining Return: Palestinians in Jordan’s Sprawling Refugee Camps Still Yearn for Home

Trump’s Vanished ‘Liberal Middles’

Is Libya the New Syria for Putin’s Secret Army?

Learning Lessons: Protesters Stay One Step Ahead of Rulers

The “Deal of the Century” (2): The US Wants Iran to Forget About Palestine and Accept Negotiations

The “Deal of the Century” Won’t Go Through: Split Among Palestinians Supports Israel (1)