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Monday Oct. 13 may turn out to have been an historic day in South-West Asia. Mediators signed a ceasefire deal for Gaza in Sharm el-Sheikh, Hamas released all 20 of the remaining living Israeli hostages, and Israel released 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, some of whom had not been seen for decades, to shouts of joy and celebration. Much-needed humanitarian aid, medicine, […]

To avoid a return to the same cycle of violence in Israel and Palestine, a transcendental change is required, wrote former Speaker of the Knesset Avrum Burg in an insightful piece on Oct. 12 which we quote. “There are moments in history when not only states change but entire nations. It is not borders that are redrawn but consciousness itself; […]

Now that Donald Trump feels he has been successful in bringing about an end to the war in Gaza, perhaps he will devote more time to his oft-stated goal of establishing good relations with Russia, and ending what is actually a NATO’s war in Ukraine. If so, he could begin by making clear that he will not authorize delivery of […]

The announcement by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce on Oct. 9 of export control measures on rare earth exports sent a message to the United States and to the world, that whoever is looking to wage a real trade war with Beijing is drawing the short straw. Without rare earths from China, Western industry will come to a stillstand. More […]

While it has been taboo until now for mainstream media and economists in Germany to discuss just how alarming the economic situation is, Clemens Fuest, president of the Munich-based IfO Econometric Institute, did just admit in an FAZ interview that “we are indeed seeing an economic downfall”. The IfO is one of the six institutes comprising the official advisory economic […]

Following his poorly-received rant on Sept. 26 before a nearly-empty auditorium at the UN General Assembly session seeking an end to Israeli genocide against Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retreated to a more friendly venue. Speaking to pro-Israel “influencers” at Israel’s New York City consulate, aware of their concerns over the dramatic loss of support for Israel among Americans, he […]

In the context of what should become a crash program for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, the plans worked out by Egypt for its Sinai Peninsula years ago take on an even greater importance. Just last week, in commemoration of the 52nd anniversary of the Oct. 6, 1973 War and the winning back of the Sinai Peninsula from Israel, […]

In the early morning hours of Oct. 10, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte was ousted from office in a cold coup d’état disguised as a scandal over corruption and her failure to fight crime. In reality, Dina Boluarte, who took office in December 2022, had been targeted by Washington and London for a long time, but with a particular vengeance since […]

If Europe is to come out of the profound economic and social quagmire it has sunk into, it will have to join with the “Global Majority” of the planet to shake off the old paradigm of geopolitics and put an end once and for all to neo-colonialism. More specifically, Europe should collaborate with China in carrying out development projects in […]

As we write, negotiations in Cairo on a potential ceasefire agreement in Gaza have just concluded the second day of what is expected to be a long process. While the intentions of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his co-belligerents are well-known, the Trump administration continues to insist that a mutually-acceptable resolution is possible. Eight Arab and Muslim-majority countries released a […]