An increasing number of global shipping companies are suspending shipments through the Red Sea amid increased attacks by the Yemeni naval forces Ansar Allah. This, in particular, happened after the United States announced the creation of a “military alliance to counter attacks,” which raised questions about how successful it would be and whether it was legitimate in the first place. Washington, as always, clumsily got itself into the Red Sea region, which is located tens of thousands of kilometers from the United States and tried to “legitimize” maritime transportation, primarily in the interests of Israel…

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is one of the most water-stressed countries in the world. At the 150 litres per day recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Jordan has an average of 70 litres per person per day. Groundwater is rapidly depleting (in some parts of the country the level is dropping by more than a metre a year), rainfall has fallen by 60 per cent in recent years and six of the 14 reservoirs have dried up. All this is happening against the backdrop of the Kingdom’s growing population and the influx of more than a million Syrian refugees…

The Middle East Hamas-Israel military conflict, obviously, would not have taken so many months of bloody fighting if interested external forces had not taken part in it. While Israel is patronized by the United States and Europe, Hamas finds support among Arab countries, Iran and Turkey. The international community is increasingly condemning the Israel Defense Forces’ disproportionate strikes on the Palestinian enclave in Gaza, which is reflected in the voting process at the UN General Assembly. In addition, key global players such as Russia and China also condemn…

I’ve spent my whole life trying to play nice around this lunacy, acting neutral; I’m finally done with it. I regularly curse Netanyahu and the current Israeli government. And as for US leaders, Biden or Trump, where we have to ask which is the lesser of the two evils. They are nothing compared to Netanyahu. Bibi, as he is also known, is the greatest threat to world peace and the Jewish people since Adolf Hitler. It is good that he is not the leader of NATO or the US, or he would be worse than the frustrated corporal…

Israel’s nearly three-month war on Gaza, in which more than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 53,000 wounded, has caused enormous destruction to the housing stock in the Strip and brought the existence of more than 2 million people in Gaza to the brink of disaster. There is a growing wave of sympathy for the suffering of the Palestinians around the world and a corresponding condemnation of Israel’s barbaric bombardment. Unfortunately, the desperate attempts of the United Nations to halt hostilities and achieve…

The Israeli media began to release increasingly frequent publications on the actual casualties of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and other security, defense and law enforcement agencies during the clashes in the Gaza Strip. The most sensational publication, causing a massive reaction especially in the Arab world and Iran, was the investigative report of the Israeli journalist Ariel Shimon, fired from Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper after his controversial publication was released. Unfortunately, the author could not find the original of Shimon’s report, even in Hebrew…

The ongoing violent conflict between Hamas and Israel has recorded more than 19,200 Palestinian deaths with 52,200 wounded as of December 18 this year. The Israel Defense Forces continues its offensive ground operation throughout the Gaza Strip (including in the northern, central and southern areas), ensures a continuous advance and does not consider civilian targets (be it a school, hospital or residential neighborhoods). According to media reports, Israel has already dropped about 29,000 bombs on Gaza (about the same number of bombings were carried out by the US and British Air Forces in 2003 in Iraq)…

Deep divisions are growing in Israel over the Palestinian bloodbath unleashed in the Gaza Strip and whether to continue this globally condemned war. Many public opinion polls show a significant decline in support for the current war cabinet and its Palestinian policies. Despite more than two months of an intensive bombing campaign and a ground operation ostensibly directed against Hamas, the Israeli occupying army has made little progress in achieving its stated objectives, namely, the release of hostages, the destruction of the Hamas military organization and consequently the Palestinian resistance…

The United States remains a strong and great power, but recently its foreign policy actions have been increasingly criticized both at home and abroad. The outrage of most developing countries, now called the Global South, was sparked by a renewed veto by Washington of the Security Council resolution of December 8, demanding an immediate cessation of hostilities and humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. Arab-Muslim countries have called for the convening of an emergency session of the UN General Assembly, for which a draft vetoed by the Americans on December 8 has been proposed…

Yemen’s Houthi rebel group has threatened to attack any vessel they believe is either going to or coming from Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. They backed up their announcement with actual attacks on several ships in the Red Sea, using ballistic missiles and drones. The Houthis have stressed that their attacks are aimed at forcing Israel to stop shelling Gaza and help ensure the delivery of food and water to the Gaza Strip. The Houthi movement was established in northern Yemen, where most people follow Zaydism, a form of Shiite Islam…

Widely circulated information about negotiations between Israeli security officials and intermediaries in Qatar, Egypt and Norway for the next humanitarian pause in conflict with Hamas for the hostage exchange begins to take another turn. Obviously, a week-long truce at the end of November did not solve the problem of an “all for all” hostage-prisoner swap. The Israeli side wanted to resume hostilities as soon as possible to accelerate the process of the total destruction of Hamas with the complete destruction of residential and administrative buildings in Gaza, thus making the Palestinian…

The issue of Sweden’s accession to NATO has once again acquired new facets of Turkish-Western (or rather, as the Jewish anecdote goes, Turkish-American) contradictions. Since May 2022, i.e. since Stockholm approached NATO for Sweden’s admission, Turkey has become the main obstacle to a positive resolution of the issue. Initially, Ankara’s demands included the Kurdish issue (more precisely, the fight against Kurdish terrorism and separatism), which was viewed rather liberally by the Swedish democracy. Turkey demanded to toughen Swedish…