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The current windfall of the Middle East crisis, as we know, began with a Hamas terrorist attack against Israeli civilians. However, the current Israeli government, encouraged by the US administration, commenced to retaliate on the basis of collective responsibility rather than punishing terrorists and criminals. Gaza is constantly bombarded. It is inexcusable what is happening to hundreds of innocent people in that Palestinian enclave, where they are being slaughtered without cause and have nowhere to go. Every day, more people are killed or injured, and the number of youngsters is approaching 4 thousand…

What’s all this interest in Djibouti of late? The tiny territory of only 23,000 square kilometres is now in the middle of a tectonic shift in world and regional politics. The ongoing quest by powerful nations to dominate the Indo-Pacific region is now extended to East Africa’s shores, and tiny Djibouti is the focal point in the geopolitical competition. Djibouti’s location overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Strait that connects the Indian Ocean via the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea and the Mediterranean is critical to understanding why the great powers…

Whatever your opinion about Israel’s war in Gaza, when the dust finally settles on the battlefields, the world will no longer be the same—unipolar. The deadly Hamas strike on southern Israel on October 7 and subsequent frenzied Israeli response split nations in ways not seen since the US-British invasion of Iraq in 2003. The incident altered the course of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for both parties and beyond. It may be argued, without exaggeration, that the latest war in the Middle East will have thunderous effects, shaking the already weak world order based on the West’s dominance, led by the United States…