Orientul Mijlociu

Ce que l’on comprend maintenant, c’est que «nous ne jouons plus aux échecs». Il n’y a plus de règles.

L’ultimatum de Trump à l’Iran ? Le colonel Doug Macgregor compare l’ultimatum de Trump à l’Iran à celui que l’Autriche-Hongrie a adressé à la Serbie en 1914 : une offre, en somme, «qui ne pouvait être refusée». La Serbie a accepté neuf des dix demandes. Mais elle en a refusé une, et l’Autriche-Hongrie a immédiatement déclaré la guerre.

Cet article remet en question l’un des mythes politiques les plus tenaces du monde moderne : la continuité ininterrompue entre les anciens Israélites et le peuple connu aujourd’hui sous le nom de juifs. Grâce à une synthèse exhaustive d’archéologie réprimée, de génétique censurée et d’histoire ecclésiastique non verbalisée, nous démontrons que l’héritage hébreu authentique n’a pas été préservé en exil, mais s’est accompli dans le christianisme. Ceux qui se sont ensuite réclamés de cet héritage, émergeant sous le nom de juifs dans l’Europe médiévale, n’étaient pas des sémites, mais des convertis khazars-germano-turcs, migrant par vagues stratégiques à travers l’Eurasie. Leur revendication sur la Palestine antique n’est pas sacrée, mais fabriquée. Cet ouvrage déconstruit cette fabrication – couche par couche, mensonge par mensonge – et révèle les véritables héritiers de la flamme spirituelle d’Israël. Non par le sang, mais par l’alliance. Non par la conquête, mais par la vérité.

Syrian dictator was seen by Tony Blair as a potential bulwark against terrorists entering Iraq, newly declassified files confirm.

Senior MI6 officials wanted help from Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to stop terrorists entering Iraq in 2004, it has emerged.

US troops were coming under attack from foreign fighters with links to Al Qaeda, which had gained a foothold there following the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Shin Bet uncovers Hamas cell in Nablus run by Turkey-based HQ; observers say Ankara offers freedom of action to Hamas terror operatives.

A Hamas terror cell in Nablus that received instructions and funding from the organization’s overseas headquarters in Turkey was dismantled by Israeli security forces in recent weeks in what observers say is part of a broader pattern of Turkey serving as a permissive hub for Hamas’s terror operations.

Iranian leaders fear that Türkiye, emboldened by the ousting of the Assad regime in Syria, will further advance its influence in the South Caucasus at the expense of Iran.

Iran’s foreign minister visited Tehran’s key South Caucasus ally, Armenia, last week to coordinate efforts to thwart the establishment of a Turkish-backed transit corridor that would block Iran’s land access to Armenia.

Iran continued to threaten US bases and forces, likely to try to discourage a potential US or Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities amid US threats to strike these facilities. Iranian armed forces-run Defa Press published a piece on April 2 claiming that Iran “certainly has sufficient weapons” to attack Diego Garcia Island.[i] The United States has recently increased its military presence at Diego Garcia Island.[ii] The piece stated that US Air Force and Navy “strategic assets” and “4000 US soldiers” at Diego Garcia would be “at risk of complete destruction” if the United States attacked Iran.[iii] There are normally roughly 400 US military personnel and 2,000 civilian contractors at Diego Garcia.[iv] The article outlined the following options for an Iranian attack on US assets at Diego Garcia.

On February 27, Abdullah Öcalan, founding member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), called for the PKK to disarm and dissolve. This announcement, supported by various Kurdish leaders in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), has instilled a sense of hope for peace amid a long-standing conflict that has claimed countless lives and caused enduring regional instability. Yet, while the streets of Sulaymaniyah, Qamishlo, Diyarbakir, and Van have erupted in celebration, the path forward is fraught with obstacles that could derail this new opportunity.

Iran responded on March 26 to US President Donald Trump’s letter proposing nuclear negotiations.[i] Iran signaled it is open to indirect nuclear negotiations with the United States but rejects direct negotiations under the current conditions. Trump sent a letter to Khamenei on March 5 that proposed negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, and Iran responded to the letter via Oman on March 26.[ii] Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Iran is open to indirect talks with the United States, though it rejects direct negotiations under the current US “maximum pressure” campaign and US-Israeli threat of military action against Iran’s nuclear program. US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated on March 25 that Trump’s letter to Iran proposed “direct talks” and emphasized that “there would be military consequences if there were no direct negotiations.”[iii] It is unclear if Iran’s openness to indirect negotiations will fulfill US conditions to grant sanctions relief or avoid military action against Iran’s nuclear program.

Sous la direction d’Ahmad al-Sharaa, les nouveaux dirigeants islamistes de Syrie marginalisent systématiquement les factions palestiniennes, favorisent l’Autorité palestinienne soutenue par les États-Unis, démantèlent les groupes liés à l’Iran et remodèlent la dynamique des réfugiés en s’alignant sur une stratégie plus large soutenue par les États-Unis pour neutraliser la Résistance palestinienne.

In the past two decades, the external debt of developing countries has quadrupled to $11.4 trillion (2023). It is important to understand that this money owed to foreign creditors is equivalent to 99% of the export earnings of the developing countries. This means that almost every dollar earned by the export of goods and services is a dollar owed to a foreign bank or bond holder. Countries of the Global South, therefore, are merely selling their goods and services to pay off debts incurred for development projects, collapsed commodity prices, public deficits, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the inflation due to the Ukraine war. Half the world’s population (3.3 billion) lives in countries that allocate more of their budget to pay off the interest on debt than to pay for either education or health services. On the African continent, of the fifty-four countries, thirty-four spend more on debt servicing than on public healthcare. Debt looms over the Global South like a vulture, ready to pick at the carcass of our societies.