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Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Middle East Fratricide
7 February 2015 According to OIC’s official website, the Organization and its Secretary General issued twelve statements of condemnation during the past month. Five of these were related to developments in non-OIC countries such as the terrorist attack on Charlie … Continue reading
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Tagged OIC, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UN
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Quo Vadis Turkey?
3 February 2015 Turkey’s traditional foreign policy, bitterly criticized by the present Government for having betrayed Turkey’s potential, stood on pillars. Our relations with the United States and the European Union constituted the first two. A third one was our … Continue reading
President Obama and the Middle East
1 February 2015 Five speeches delivered by President Obama are important to understanding his approach to the Middle East. These are: • Remarks to the Turkish Parliament (6 April 2009), • Remarks at the Cairo University where he addressed Moslem … Continue reading
Breach of Protocol
30 January 2015 It would not be surprising that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to Washington should remain a cause for controversy up to and even beyond the Israeli elections scheduled for 17 March 2015. As a former diplomat I … Continue reading
Syriza’s Election Victory
28 January 2015 Over the last five years Greece has been on top of the EU’s economic crisis management agenda. Looking further back, one may say that leaders’ personalities and their able political reasoning probably played a larger part than … Continue reading
Breaking the Syrian Deadlock
26 January 2015 With ISIS controlling swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, terrorist attacks in Paris, turmoil in Libya and Yemen, Boko Haram’s massacres in Nigeria, public discourse of the West on Syria has started to change. References to … Continue reading
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Tagged ISIS, Kerry, Lakhdar Brahimi, Russia, Steffan de Mistura, Syria, US
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Need For a Modus Vivendi in West-Russia Relations
23 January 2015 In June 2009 President Obama visited Moscow where he expressed his desire for a “reset” in US-Russia relations. This did not happen. On 17 December 2010, Muhammed Buazizi lit the flame of the Arab Spring which … Continue reading
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Tagged Kerry-Lavrov, Obama, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, US, West
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Arab Spring: The Libya Lesson
21 January 2015 Measures taken by governments to quell Arab Spring revolts “caused the international community grave concern.” But no other country became the subject of a “UN sanctioned” intervention except Libya. The following may help explain why: • Qaddafi … Continue reading
Charlie Hebdo, Unity Rally, Now What?
16 January 2015 The terrorist attacks in Paris were called the 9/11 of France. Then, there was the Unity Rally, a remarkable display of national and international solidarity. The question, however, remains: What now? During and after these dastardly attacks, … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Hebdo, clash of cultures, Islamic radicalism, Middle East
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