Geopolitics… Erdogan’s Idlib misadventure: Reality checks and hard lessons for Turkey 3 Apr 20204 Apr 2020 Posted originally to MintPress News on 3 April 2020. Even when viewed through the prism of Turkish interests, President Tayyib Erdogan’s escalatory actions in Syria’s Idlib governorate constitute now plainly…
#Zionism… The New Contours of the Power Struggle for Syria’s Future – Three Part Series for MintPress News 3 Mar 202013 Mar 2020 Part one: Wealthy Gulf States Plan Big To Coax Syria Away from Iran Part two: Russia and Iran's Clashing Views for Syria's Future Part three: How a Subtle Turkey-Iran Entente…
Af-Pak… Lessons in tenacity: Why Pakistan should learn from Turkey 4 Jan 202017 Jan 2020 Posted originally to The Express Tribune on 4 January 2020. When faced with the seemingly unyielding support of its ostensible NATO ‘partners’ for Kurdish secessionists in the Syrian-Turkish border regions,…
#Zionism… The Israel Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the Theft of Iraqi and Syrian Oil 11 Dec 201911 Dec 2019 By Agha Hussain and Whitney Webb, for MintPress News, posted on 10 December 2019. KIRKUK, IRAQ — “We want to bring our soldiers home. But we did leave soldiers because we’re…
#Zionism… The falsehood that is the ‘Persian-Arab conflict’ narrative 2 Nov 201918 Nov 2019 Posted originally to The Express Tribune Blogs on 2 November 2019. Discredited and archaic explanatory frameworks are superposed onto geopolitical conflicts and rivalries at the expense of accurate appraisal of…
#Zionism… How Russia’s vision for the Middle East is rigged against Iran 22 Oct 201924 Feb 2020 Posted originally to American Herald Tribune on 22 October 2019. Stanislav Ivanov writing for the prestigious Russian state-run Valdai Club recently described ‘Israel and most of the Arab countries’ as…
#Zionism… Netanyahu’s Election Loss: Reasons and Regional Consequences 22 Oct 201925 Oct 2019 Posted originally as an issue brief to Islamabad Policy Institute on 19 September 2019. Benjamin Netanyahu’s 10-year continuous stint at Israeli Prime Minister is coming to an end, with his…
Geopolitics… Iran’s Israel-GCC-Russia Conundrum 6 Oct 201925 Oct 2019 Israel-GCC-Russia vs Iran; resharing my January 2019 article for Regional Rapport where I predict some strategic changes within the very structure of the Syrian state Israel will through the GCC…
Geopolitics… From Camp David to ‘Deal of the Century’: Smokescreens for Israel 2 Jul 20192 Nov 2019 Posted originally to Surkhiyan.pk on 2 July 2019. Jared Kushner’s ‘Deal of the Century’ seeks to make matters worse for the Palestinians, going by publicized leaked details of it. It…
Geopolitics… The deceptive inadequacy of the ‘Israel-Palestine conflict’ label 7 Jun 201925 Oct 2019 Posted originally to CRSS on 1 June 2019. To treat the ‘Israel-Palestine conflict’as one in a long list of bilateral country disputes to be found in the modern age attaches…
