«Then, Ukraine. Do not forget about Ukraine. Ukraine continues fighting. It will be on the agenda». – Josep Borrell. On 23 October, before the start of the meeting of the EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg, journalists of leading publications did not ask the European Union’s head of diplomacy, Josep Borrell, a single question about the […]
Tucker Carlson Tonight has a video on YouTube that has so far managed to survive there. In it, he describes the meteoric rise of US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is simultaneously one of the very most prominent members of Congress, its youngest, and most idiotic, quite frankly. However, to her credit (and I seriously do mean […]
In the aftermath of the shooting down by Syria of an Israeli F-16 fighter bomber, President Putin of Russia and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel had a telephone conversation with each other.
The Kremlin’s summary of the conversation is even by its standards extremely short.
Smashing the Abbas icon of Palestinian non – violence would herald an end to his era, dooming for a long time to come any prospect for a negotiated peaceful solution.
By Nicola Nasser*
Editor’s Note: Intifada Palestine is republishing this article in remembrance of the late Patrick Seale who passed away yesterday April 11, 2014 at the age of 83 after suffering from brain cancer. He had many skills – as author, journalist, broadcaster, Middle East historian, arts aficionado and dealer and literary agent. But most notably he was the English-speaking world’s foremost chronicler and interpreter of Syria, its troubled modern history and its leadership during the past 44 years that of the al-Assad family, father Hafez and son Bashar.
