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For the Kurds, taking the road to Damascus will have a price
By Michael Jansen - Apr 26,2023
In a bid to keep his presidential candidacy alive, Lebanon's Suleiman Frangieh travelled the road to Damascus last week for an informal meeting with Syrian President Bashar Al Assad.
Netanyahu's extremist-dominated Cabinet in jeopardy
By Michael Jansen - Apr 19,2023
Muslims, Christians and Jews have peacefully celebrated major religious holidays around the world during this month everywhere but in Jerusalem, the city scared to all three Abrahamic faiths.
Another Ramadan, another brutal Israeli raids into Al Aqsa
By Michael Jansen - Apr 12,2023
Once again, Haram Al Sharif, Al Aqsa Mosque, and the sublimely beautiful Dome of the Rock have become Ramadan flashpoints in the escalating conflict over possession of Palestine between Palestinians and Israelis.
Why the US fears Arab normalisation with Syria
By Michael Jansen - Apr 05,2023
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticised US President Joe Biden for meddling in Israeli affairs by warning against the current extreme right-wing government's plan to subjugate Israel's supreme court to control by the Knesset.  This means subjecting the court to the auth
Israeli protesters fixated on themselves and Israel's flawed democracy
By Michael Jansen - Mar 29,2023
Faced with increasingly strident mass protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to overhaul the country's supreme courts, he has agreed to a "delay" in adoption while discussions among the proponents and opponents proceed.
Publicity for Ukraine war vs campaign to justify 2003 US war on Iraq
By Michael Jansen - Mar 22,2023
The publicity for the Ukraine war has been handled far more successfully by the US, NATO and allies than the campaign to justify the 2003 US war on Iraq. The Ukraine news is pervasive.
Another potential game changer
By Michael Jansen - Mar 15,2023
Last week, I wrote about how the visit to Tehran of International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi could be a game changer by heralding a fresh effort to provide the agency real time access to developments in Iran's nuclear programme.
A potential game changer
By Michael Jansen - Mar 08,2023
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi's visit to Tehran could be a game changer.
Zionist project has always been colonisation and exclusion of indigenous Palestinians
By Michael Jansen - Mar 01,2023
The escalating violence in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank has been inevitable for a long time. The century-old Zionist project in Palestine has always been colonisation and exclusion or subjugation of indigenous Palestinians.
Was the Ukraine war inevitable?
By Michael Jansen - Feb 22,2023
Moscow has pressed NATO to forget about recruiting Ukraine and urged Ukraine to remain a neighbour Russia can trust not to take up arms against it by joining the Western alliance as many former members of the collapsed Soviet Union have done.Russia has good reasons to reject Ukra

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