Tag: Middle East
Is Iran going home?
If you are Iran, it seems, 2020 is not your year.
Aside from the devastation of the Wuhan virus, Iraq closed its 1,000-mile southern border with Iran for “security reasons” after months of Iraqi protests...
Russia, Saudi Arabia and the US: A slippery oil triangle
OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, held a meeting in Vienna on Feb. 6 to try to reach agreement on oil prices and production levels. The meeting ended without agreement following Russia’s refusal to...
The high crime of discussing peace with israelis
The Gaza Youth Committee’s concept of self-determination was short-circuited by Hamas, which rules Gaza with a tight grip.
The decade-old committee has spent the last half of its existence virtually meeting with Israelis in small-scale...
Muslims and Jews: The ‘original grudge’ theory
In 2013, Princeton University Press published “A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day,” the first encyclopaedia on the history of relations between Jews and Muslims from the birth of...
Pentagon considers keeping paratroopers in Middle East amid Iranian threat
The Pentagon is looking into keeping a reaction force of roughly 3,500 U.S. troops sent to the Middle East in January in response to Iranian-backed riots at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
The Daily Beast reported on...
Middle East airlines lose $7 billion as flights become limited, some airports close
Seven Middle Eastern countries have stopped all commercial flights because of the spreading coronavirus (COVID-19).
The International Air Transport Association announced on Thursday that regional airlines have already lost more than $7 billion in revenue,...
Plague of locusts to hit Africa, Mideast, says UN group
Locusts are coming to Africa and the Middle East just in time for Passover, though will likely not affect Israel or the country’s crops, The Times of Israel reported on Monday, citing Locust Watch, part of...
Biden’s revival means a return to Obama’s Middle East policies
As far as many Democrats are concerned, the possibility of one nightmare has been averted. Now they think it’s time to make the other bad dream in the form of President Donald Trump go...
Public trial of 68 Hamas activists gets underway in Saudi Arabia
The trial of 68 alleged Hamas members has begun in Saudi Arabia. They were arrested in April 2019 in Saudi Arabia; most were Palestinians from the Palestinian territories who immigrated to Saudi Arabia, some...
Greenblatt joins Israeli OurCrowd as partner for building Mideast relations
Jason Greenblatt, the former U.S. special envoy to the Middle East in the Trump administration, has joined OurCrowd, a large venture-capital investment company in Israel, as a partner whose responsibility is building ties with...