Tag: Israel
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Links between Beirut blasts, UAE-Israel, Oil and Gas in East Mediterranean?
Who knows an oil and gas rich Israel may in the future be nice to a people it has been particularly nasty with: the Palestinians. The credit for affecting a change of…
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After Soleimani: The cost-benefit for US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran
The consequence is that the assassination-in-a-hurry has united even disparate forces in Iran, Iraq and the larger West Asia. It left Europe dazed, Britain embarrassed and the rest of the world wondering…
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Arab turnaround: Saudi Crown Prince tilts at windmills, Assad secure
The ghoulish murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi has set into motion a new dynamic in the Syrian, Yemeni, Palestinian and other incipient conflicts in West Asia. Popular perception globally has traced…
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Origin of Saudi-Qatar spat: What lies in the future
That Qatar has relations with Iran is disliked in Riyadh, ofcourse, but what causes much deeper anxieties is the material and moral support Qatar can provide to Muslim Brotherhood which represents all…
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Western arms and Islamic terrorism: An endless spiral
I have always maintained that Americans, protected by the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, will continue to enhance their dependence on what Eisenhower called the military industrial complex.
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Obama asks Arabs to target ISIS before Netanyahu rants on Iran
Israeli Defence minister Moshe Ya’alon spent the evening persuading his listeners that all the world’s problems emanate not from ISIS or Al Qaeda but from that fount of all evil, Iran. This…