Tag: Near and Middle East
Israel: Netanyahu, the reasons for a fiasco
“Transforming a crisis into an opportunity”. The headline of the daily “Israel Today”, unconditional support of Binyamin Netanyahu, speaks volumes about the vacuity of the elements of language deployed by…
Frédéric Encel: “The women of Iran must know that they are supported abroad”
Doctor in geopolitics and lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, columnist at L’Express, Frédéric Encel brings together many personalities this March 31 in Paris to discuss the fate of women in…
Israel: Netanyahu announces a “pause” in the highly contested justice reform
Benjamin Netanyahu loose ballast. The Israeli Prime Minister announced on Monday, March 27, a “pause” in the process of adopting the justice reform under consideration in Parliament, and contested in…
Israel: the dismissal of the Minister of Defense triggers a political crisis
He calls on the government to “immediately” stop legislative work on a text that divides the country. Israeli President Isaac Herzog solemnly asked the government on Monday March 27 to…
Bashar al-Assad, a new tyrant?
The Syrian president’s diplomatic agenda has never been so full. The terrible earthquakes of February 6, which caused more than 6,000 deaths on the Syrian side (44,000 on the Turkish…
West Bank: Israel facing new Palestinian fighters
They are in their twenties, sometimes only 13 or 14, and decide to take up arms against Israel. For a year, the West Bank has seen the rise of a…
Iran, “a daily hell”: between record inflation and restrictions on freedoms
In the Tajrish market, in the upscale neighborhoods of northern Tehran, the stalls display the usual bright colors, the deep red of sumac, the bright green of fresh herbs, the…
War in Iraq: a calamity, yes, the beginning of chaos, no!
Twenty years ago, the United States and 43 allies attacked Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Upstream, the motive was fallacious and misleading; imperialist and highly criminal as this demiurge was, he had…
Turkey: Erdogan facing the sling of football fans
“Government, resign!” In a Turkey forced into silence, the slightest criticism of the authorities finds a resounding echo. Especially when it is chanted by thousands of fiery supporters. After the…
Israel: Netanyahu, like a fish in chaos
In June 2021, the Knesset returns after several weeks of interruption and long negotiations to form a government. In the middle of Parliament, Benyamin Netanyahu seems lost, until a colleague…