The revival of the ‘new Hejaz railway’ project, between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, has been largely ignored by the Western media, despite having a significant impact on the direction of US President, Joe Biden’s, Middle East foreign policy. Proposed in 2018 Israel’s then Minister of Transportation, Israel Katz, had first brought up the Read More...
Many in the West don’t realize just how much JFK was an exception to the norm when it came to US foreign policy.
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Israeli forces Wednesday demolished a mosque in the Bedouin community of Azwadeen. (Photo: via Social Media) Palestine Chronicle | January 27, 2021 Israeli forces Wednesday demolished a mosque in the Bedouin community of Azwadeen, east of Yatta city, south of Hebron, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Coordinator of the Protection and Steadfastness Committees, […]
Sixty years ago, John F Kennedy (JFK) was inaugurated as president of the USA. In less than three years, before he was assassinated in November 1963, he initiated major changes in foreign policy. These foreign policy changes are documented in books such as JFK and the Unspeakable (2008) and Betting on the Africans (2012). One […]
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Arab normalization with Israel is expected to have serious consequences that go well beyond the limited and self-serving agendas of a few Arab countries. Thanks to the Arab normalizers, the doors are now flung wide open for new political actors to extend or cement ties with Israel at the expense of Palestine, without fearing any consequences to their actions. African[Read More...]
By Viktor Mikhin – New Eastern Outlook – 26.01.2021 Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, now 97 years old and having long lost his sense of the reality of international affairs, recently unleashed a new idea, menacingly declaring that a return to the “spirit” of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal would lead to weapons […]
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, now 97 years old and having long lost his sense of the reality of international affairs, recently unleashed a new idea, menacingly declaring that a return to the “spirit” of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal would lead to weapons spread throughout the Middle East. These comments came during […]
(Photo credit: National Press Club) President Biden’s commitment to re-entering the Iran nuclear deal—formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA—is already facing backlash from a motley crew of warhawks both domestic and foreign. Right now, opponents of re-entering the deal are centering their vitriol on one of the nation’s foremost experts […]
Many are expecting President Joe Biden to roll back Trump's heavily pro-Israel policies, but several factors – including his long-established ties to Israeli interests– point to a greater likelihood of their continuation instead.
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Biden’s response to the far-right uproar against Malley will be a test of his fortitude in standing up to the hawks and charting a new course for U.S. policy in the Middle East.
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