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China-Palestine Relations – Bilateral Trade, Investment and Diplomacy

The link! Doh! China and Palestine established diplomatic relations in 1988. In recent years, China has sought to deepen bilateral trade and investment ties, pursuing a free trade agreement and integration with the Belt and Road Initiative. China’s growing influence in the Middle East positions it as a potential mediator in peace efforts, an ever […]

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Beyond the Neo-Con Debacle to Peace in Ukraine

I’m certain some readers here will take issue with the author of this opinion piece. That’s okay. I’m of the mind there is value in what he has written Jeffrey Sachs We are entering the end stage of the 30-year US neocon debacle in Ukraine. The neocon plan to surround Russia in the Black Sea […]

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US President Joe Biden to push Israel, Ukraine aid package well over $2 billion

This was mentioned last week as a distinct possibility- Well over 2 billion dollars White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that the Biden administration hopes to push a new weapons package for Israel and Ukraine through Congress that will be significantly higher than $2 billion. Sullivan, in an interview on CBS’s […]

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Türkiye slams US, West over complicity in Israeli war crimes in Gaza

Savvy diplomat- I don’t care what any one says. Erdogan is spot on. He negotiated well with Ukraine/Russia. On peace and the grain deal. In both cases the US interfered. Again we see the US antagonizing the situation. While other parties call and push for diplomacy. My understanding is Turkey’s leadership has been busy, busy, […]

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Israel Strikes Aleppo and Damascus Airports- Violating International Law

I can’t help but get the impression that Israel is looking for a regional war- And the US and UK will back them up. Including, possibly targeting the Assad government– The US has one warship present, another on the way. May already be there, not sure The UK is sending ships as well – Royal […]

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White House retracts statements accusing the Qassam Brigades of killing children

MEMO Biden said during his meeting with leaders of the Jewish community at the White House: “I never really thought that I would see and have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children.” The Washington Post quoted a White House spokesman as saying that neither President Biden nor any US official has independently seen any photos or verified […]

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Aid to Israel Opens New Path for Aid to Ukraine

The world does NOT need more war. Interesting and probably correct- Israel Conflagration Opens Potential New Path to Aid Ukraine In August, when President Joe Biden’s administration proposed sending $24 billion in additional aid to Ukraine, it looked like it would once again breeze through Congress, albeit with a few more dissenting voices than previous […]

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The end of the Netanyahu doctrine

Did his plan to preserve Hamas in Gaza as a tool for keeping the strip separate from the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority weak finally backfire? ResponsibleStatecraft Is what happened a backfire? I’m not 100 percent sold on that idea This fact is not just a historical anecdote; it has a direct political meaning. […]

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Cui Bono- A year after North Stream Blown- EU reels, US Happy

Cui Bono- Who benefits? The biggest beneficiary is most assuredly the perpetrator. Read entirely at link included. A year after the Nord Stream pipeline attacks, European energy markets are shaken – and the Americans are happy Just the facts.. Oh the culprits can be figured out quite easily when we think of which party benefits […]

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Strategy of Tension: How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas from 2009

Archive.ph Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor’s bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile’s trajectory back to an “enormous, stupid mistake” made 30 years ago. “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. […]

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