On the Eve of the Third Anniversary of the Syrian Uprising
Although Assad and the apparatus of security that surrounded him managed to survive, their obstinacy left Syria in ruins.
More
On Zionism and Anti-SemitismÂ…
Although a clear, distinctive line exists between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, Israeli circles have a tendency to distort the meaning of anti-Semitism in a way to include anti- Zionism as part of it.
More
One of the fundamental issues and the source of ‘fear’ for many in the West after the revolution in Egypt was a possible radical change in the foreign policy area. But what has changed in the foreign policy of Egypt after the revolution?
As long as the U.S. insists on the old order of the Middle East via its support for Israel, it will soon no longer possess the necessary political software to deal with the new Middle East.
What are the chances that the actual object of fear is a stable post-al-Assad Syria? In the aftermath of turmoil and chaos, the newly achieved stability is expected to rest upon a Sunni demographic with a hint of Islamist politics.
The United States that had actualized the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe at the end of the Second World War, today, with the Marshall Islands vote, trapped the Middle Eastern politics between a political rock and a hard place.
US-Turkey Relations in the AK Party Decade
The U.S.-Turkey relationship took on a fresh dynamic with the onset of the Arab Spring in early 2011.
More
Israel's Eclipse of Reason: Attack on Gaza and UN Vote
Israel lost its zero sum game and Palestine emerged as the winner. As long as Israel doesnÂ’t pursue a win-win strategy, it will be doomed to be a loser.
More
Morsi, with his newly earned momentum, intervened in the tutelary powers of the judiciary in the aftermath of Gaza.
Israel, with its attack on Gaza, has tried the United States. The results of this test show that America is still behind Israel.
Israel has been living in political déjà vu for some time now. It neither comprehends the transformation in the region, nor does it have the political capacity to analyze the future.
We will continue to witness a U.S. policy striving to adjust to the process in Syria. Nevertheless, this policy is not one that is pregnant with revolutionary turning points!
Hezbollah continues to recklessly spend the capital it has built with its resistance against Israel on the Baath regime.
Another approach to the analysis of the Syrian crisis is to acknowledge the massacres committed by the Assad regime, but in the end, to own up the analyses mentioned above.
The only way the U.S. can take a constructive role in the Middle East in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings is to follow a foreign policy that is realistic and geared towards restoring justice.
Mohamed Morsi, by forcing the top names of the SCAF to resign, squeezed decades of the Turkish political calendar into a single month. From now on, in its battle against the tutelage regime he will struggle not only to come to power but also be in power.
Iran has to change its perspective on the region if it really wants to become a determining factor in the region post-al-Assad.
High-ranking officers who were killed in the blast in Syria also took away the regimeÂ’s immunity, the mutual trust of those in the regimeÂ’s inner circle and the loyalty of the army.
Syria and Israel are two semi-states which base their identities on pretended hostility.
Those who insisted that al-Assad was there to stay for a long time, after a bomb went off in Damascus, moved onto the second propaganda phase.
