Tag: Near and Middle East
Israel: in fifteen years, a succession of wars in the Gaza Strip
Israel on the one hand, and the Palestinian movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad on the other, have fought a succession of wars in the Gaza Strip since 2008. This Saturday,…
Hamas attack: Israeli soldiers and civilians taken hostage, 40 dead… The latest news
Israel and the Gaza Strip are at war again this Saturday, October 7 after the launch of a surprise military offensive by Hamas, which fired thousands of rockets and infiltrated…
Hamas attacks: Europeans “strongly condemn”, Moscow calls for “restraint”
The European Union, several major European capitals and Ukraine “strongly condemned” this Saturday, October 7, the attacks carried out overnight by Hamas and expressed their support for Israel, with Russia…
Rocket fire from Gaza into Israel: Hamas launches operation “Al-Aqsa Flood”
The armed wing of Palestinian Hamas fired hundreds of rockets this Saturday morning, October 7, from the Gaza Strip, killing at least one person in Israel and ending a truce…
50 years ago, the Yom Kippur War: the five very contemporary lessons of the conflict
The fourth and final interstate Israeli-Arab war of October 1973 remains the least studied, devoid of the romanticism of the creation of Israel in 1948 in terrible conditions, of the…
Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner: in Iran, a long-term fight
Twenty years later, the story stammers. An Iranian woman, defender of human rights, particularly of women and children, receives the most highly symbolic distinction from the Oslo jury. Like Iranian…
Syria: fear of escalation after attack on military academy
The toll is very heavy. More than 110 people were killed Thursday in an attack on a military academy in Syria, which promised to “respond firmly”, raising fears of an…
Tourism in the Middle East: “Arab operators flirt with the Chinese bourgeoisie”
Israelis in swimsuits in Dubai, hundreds of thousands of spectators in Qatar to watch football matches and even a few handfuls of Westerners visiting the still smoking ruins of Syria.…
Nagorno-Karabakh: in France, the “feeling of helplessness” of the Armenian community
On November 3, 1896, Jean Jaurès admonished the ministers present in the Hemicycle and “hypocritical” Europe with a round of remonstrations, accusing them of ignoring the massacres committed by the…
Gulf countries: a culture under French influence
Subsoil resources have made the oil-producing countries of the Middle East as rich as Croesus. But the time has come for a change of strategy: with a lot of “starchitects”…