Foreign Affairs: How the War in Gaza Revived the Axis of Resistance

By Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr. Iran and Its Allies Are Fighting With Missiles and Memes On January 12, the United Kingdom and the United States launched military strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. These attacks were a response to the group’s assaults on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, which have disrupted global trade.

RT: Will the ‘gates of hell’ open in the Middle East?

By Murad Sadygzade. The US-led attacks on Yemen’s Houthis are another step towards a full-blown regional war, which can only be prevented by resolving the Israel-Palestine crisis The first month of 2024, as well as the previous few years, were marked by further escalations in the Middle East. This time, on January 12, the US

RIAC: The International System between Crisis and Revolution

By Andrey Kortunov. “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Antonio Gramsci’s famous quote from his Prison Notebooks, where he describes the turbulent era between the two world wars is quite suitable to portray

Consortium News: Spark That Lit the Fire: Untold Story of Oct 7 Attacks

By Ramzy Baroud. The dramatic, earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on Oct. 7 have taken many people by surprise. However, attentive observers were not among them. Few expected that Palestinian fighters would be parachuting into southern Israel on Oct. 7; that instead of capturing a single Israeli soldier — as done in 2006 — hundreds

Asharq Al-Awsat: Images of the ‘West,’ Our’s and Israel’s

By Hazem Saghieh. If its link with the West is among the most robust sources of Israel’s power, it could potentially become among the weakest. In the face of the West’s intense military, political, and financial support, there is a Western paradigm that the Jewish state favors and gravitates towards. What is this paradigm? It

Arab News: How Palestinians have become the victims of Zionist history

By Ramzy Baroud. Thousands of miles separate Uganda and the Congo from the Gaza Strip, but these places are connected to Palestine in ways that traditional geopolitical analyses fail to explain. It was last week revealed that the far-right Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu is actively discussing proposals to expel millions of Palestinians to African

Ahram Online: Israeli failures and Western credibility

By Amr Helmy. Western democracies must ensure that Israel respects international humanitarian law, human rights law, and the Fourth Geneva Convention in its actions in Gaza, writes Amr Helmy It is almost unimaginable that the Israeli security apparatuses could have succumbed to such catastrophic errors as they did during the attacks by Hamas on 7

Tribune Online: Hamas-Israel Conflict and the Implications on polarity World order

By Emmanuel Akinwale. On 7th October 2023, the global political sphere underwent turmoil as Hamas and Israel ferociously combat each other almost the exact 50th anniversary of the attack that started the Yom Kippur War, Hamas launched an audacious assault into south Israel. The Israeli political establishment, military leadership and intelligence services having been consumed

RIAC: The Palestine Issue Should Be Led Back to the Right Track

By Jin Liangxiang. The current conflict between Israel and Palestine has shocked the world. Although the conflict was triggered by the October 7 attack of Hamas, the rationale behind the conflict lies, in fact, in the desperation of Palestinians. For a rather long time, the Palestine issue had been deviated away from the right track

Russia Today: Here’s the secret behind Russia’s stance on the Middle East crisis

By Fyodor Lukyanov. The acute crisis in Palestine came as a surprise to everyone – both those who were directly involved and external players. For years, the long-standing conflict was considered frozen and ‘deadlocked’, and because of this, for many global, and even regional, powers, the issue retreated into the background. No one was really content