... since the commencement of the Gaza operation), have relatives, friends and neighbors—a new foundation is essentially laid today for a longer-term mutual antagonism and hatred.
Unexpectedly for many, Israel has completely lost the information war with Palestine: perhaps, never in the history of the Jewish State has the anti-Israeli—and even anti-Semitic—sentiment in the world been so popular and the sympathy for the Palestinians so unanimous. A few countries in the Global South have recalled their ...
... escalation, with some governments blaming the terrorist sortie of the Qassam Brigades militants from Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Flood (known as Toofan in Arabic) on October 7, 2023, while others—the abnormal situation of the decades-long occupation and blockade of Palestine by Israel,
mentioned
by UN Secretary General A. Guterres in October 2023. Yet they are all united in extremely negative
assessments
of the humanitarian consequences of the Iron Swords operation by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip. The final ...
... the Middle East: In Search of New Models
If we review the dynamics of the conflict in the Middle East, the longest of our time, we can notice that it gradually but consistently transformed, upon the adoption of the UN resolution on the partition of Palestine in 1947, from an interstate stand-off that went through three wars (1947, 1967 and 1973) into the problem of Israeli-Palestinian relations. That relationship until the 1970s and 1980s had been marked by Palestinian attempts, supported by part ...
Many developments that significantly impacted the destinies of the regional players, non-regional actors, and many people around the world have unfolded during the year that followed the publication of our paper titled “The Middle East and the Future of a Polycentric World” (February 2023).
Many of these developments appeared to continue the positive trends that we saw a year or two earlier. Saudi Arabia – Iran relations were officially normalised. Syria’s membership in the Arab League was reinstated...
On December 14, 2023, within the framework of the XVIII Conference of Arabists “Readings by I. M. Smilyanskaya” at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOS RAS), the 2nd meeting of the section “The Long 20th Century in the History of Arab Countries” was held
On December 14, 2023, within the framework of the XVIII Conference of Arabists “Readings by I. M. Smilyanskaya” at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOS RAS), the 2nd meeting...
Pugwash expresses its deepest concern at the unprecedented levels of violence in the bloody confrontation between Hamas and Israel and between Israel and Palestine.
The attacks against the civil population in Israel, in Gaza and in the West Bank—with approximately 13000-14000 victims, and approximately 5000 of them children—underscore the unacceptable brutality in the current fight, and bring to the ...
The new round of the Palestine-Israel conflict is a deja vue for the people and elites in the Middle East, not only for the level of hatred and bloodshed that the region is witnessing but also for the possible coming not-very-distant future consequences in the Middle East....
If the world does not want to pay a bigger price, they will have to push for a negotiated solution as soon as possible
The current conflict between Israel and Palestine has shocked the world. Although the conflict was triggered by the October 7 attack of Hamas, the rationale behind the conflict lies, in fact, in the desperation of Palestinians. For a rather long time, the Palestine issue had been deviated away ...
... Gaza. That there is no movement into Egypt and into Jordan of all those who used to live in Gaza, because this is what worries our Egyptian and Jordanian friends. And this would of course ruin all the resolutions of the Security Council that Gaza is Palestine, together with the West Bank.
Question:
An international pariah, that is what some have called, in the face of sanctions, Russia. Now, last month, you had the Belt and Road Forum in China, President Vladimir Putin was there, and it’s clear ...
In principle, wars complement politics, but in Israel wars absolutely remain the norm and politics are the anomalies. The source of the contradictions remains Israel's fundamental and radical alienation from the Arab environment upon which it was imposed. It cannot maintain its security except by accumulating means of force, which deepens its alienation and enhances the impossibility of accepting it. In practice, this reality is unsustainable, neither by trying to increase power nor by further alliances...
