Ukrainian lands are located at the gates of Europe and since ancient times foes have been threatening its inhabitants, not all but most of the times from the East. However, the very first statehood was brought to Kyiv from the North, by means of rivers and Vikings, and over the 10th and 11th centuries it was the largest and the most powerful state in Europe.
From May 13 to 14, Israel celebrated the 76th anniversary of its independence. Today, on May 15, Palestinians remember the Nakba.
The Nakba, which means “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the mass displacement of Palestinians that occurred during the creation of the state of Israel from 1947 to 1949.
Anti-migration policies in Libya, Tunisia, and Niger have had dire consequences, as highlighted by the more than 25,000 migrant deaths in the Mediterranean since 2014, a stagerringly high figure that does not fully capture the extent of the tragedy.
Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actual share in the country’s political decision-making.
The impressive number of 17 seats won by Israel’s extremist religious party, Shas, in the 1999 elections, was a watershed moment in the history of these parties, whose ideological roots go back to Avraham Itzhak Kook and his son Zvi Yehuda Hacohen.
For many people, the question is inflammatory. The crimes of the German Nazis were of such magnitude that comparison with any other historical violence is invidious. The genocide of the Jews was deliberate and methodical and intended to eliminate every last one. The goal was the same with the Romani and Sinti people. By comparison, the Israelis – currently accused of genocide — are rank amateurs. They have so far killed some 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza out of a population of 2.3 million.
L’attaque contre le Premier ministre slovaque, Robert Fico, rappelle étrangement l’assassinat de Lee Harvey Oswald et le rôle du réseau Gladio opérant sur le sol européen, et de nouvelles attaques sur le territoire européen ne peuvent être exclues avec l’objectif sans équivoque de semer le chaos à travers le continent. C’est la «stratégie de tension» pour, finalement, provoquer l’implication directe de l’OTAN dans un conflit généralisé avec la Russie.
A Bosnian Serb former martial arts fighter has been posting videos and pictures online, documenting his new life as a volunteer soldier with a Russian unit fighting in Ukraine. BIRN was able to track his posts, following his journey to the frontline.
The Israel Defense Force’s move last week into the southern Gaza city of Rafah has exploded in Egypt like a 2,000-pound bomb. Cairo has long been playing a double game, holding Hamas terrorists near while simultaneously trying to appear helpful to the United States and Israel.
North Macedonia is a country with a past — or no past, depending on your perspective. The landlocked Balkan country’s architecture, history, flag and even its name have all become an ideological battleground, contested by nationalists and Europhiles, disputed by Macedonians and Albanians, besieged by Greece and Bulgaria. Conservatives seek to preserve or construct a Macedonian national identity, while hostile neighbouring states demand the country relinquish its historic claims as a quid pro quo for EU accession.
D’un point de vue pratique – puisque la politique tient avant tout du pragmatisme collectif -, le plein-emploi est sans doute le premier critère observable d’une société réellement inclusive. Avec ses 3 millions de chômeurs, on peut raisonnablement dire que la France actuelle est en crise et pratique plus ou moins directement l’exclusion, malgré les diverses offensives sociétales menées par les gouvernements successifs. Nous ne parlerons pas des offensives migratoires qui, alimentant au mieux l’économie parallèle (traite d’êtres humains, exploitation sexuelle, trafic d’organes…), ne font qu’apporter une misère exotique à la misère locale.