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Will EU-Syrian relations be revised?
With the outbreak of hostilities in Syria in 2011 – the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ – the EU immediately introduced sanctions against Syria and backed the opposition. EU policy on Syria has seen no drastic changes throughout the years of conflict, but is this about to change?
UN as the Opium of Nations: Making sense of ICJ’s Superfluous ruling on Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories
On the 19th July 2024, the ICJ issued a ruling that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is illegal, amounts to annexation, and that Israel is liable to pay reparations; a just ruling that will not be implemented. It is in the context of the UN trying to numb the world’s majority to the destruction meted on Palestinians, where over 38000 (here) have been killed, and a million face diseases and starvation, that the ICJ made its ruling for a case that begun in 2022, long before October 7th 2023, when the current war started.
Washington’s Use and Abuse of the Philippines Takes Next Step
The United States has taken yet another step toward shaping the Southeast Asian archipelago nation of the Philippines into an Ukraine-style proxy with which to encircle and contain China, this time in the form of a $500 million military assistance package for Manila.
