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Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski warned in 2002 that Israel was losing its global standing as Israeli-Palestinian violence escalated during the second Intifada or uprising against Israeli occupation. At the time, Brzezinski, the former advisor to US Presidents...
By Lirar Pulikkalakath and Aleena Chacko Photo credit: RABIH DAHER/AFP via Getty Images. Introduction West Asia sadly remains a tinder box of interrelated and multiple conflicts that could explode at any moment if the state and non-state actors continue their aggressiveness. The...
Posted on October 5, 2024 by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR The US president Joe Biden sprang a surprise during a press gaggle with reporters outside the White House on Thursday when he essentially didn’t rule out a potential meeting with his...
Indians have suffered the severe consequences of risky migration. Reuters Originally published in Firstpost 16 June 2024 Call it self-styled migration or export, the participation of Indian mercenaries in the Ukraine War in a distant land should be viewed with concern...
This year’s US presidential elections are not the only potential hurdle confronting President Joe Biden’s multi-pronged vision for a Middle East peace once the Gaza war ends. So is Israeli intransigence, the prospect of a long-term insurgency in post-war Gaza,...
Increasingly, the United States is caught in a Catch-22 with tension mounting in the Red Sea, Israel maintaining unabated its assault on the Gaza Strip, and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) possibly ruling that Israel may be committing...
Israel has outlined plans for the post-Hamas Gaza Strip Administration. It wants total security to be ensured. Israel in this plan has proposed the Palestinian Authority to take charge of the territory with a multinational force to rebuild the...
Any homo academicus or academic human comes to contact with knowledge systems concomitant with power systems - political, economic, social, cultural, scientific and technological. A recent congressional committee in the United States had intered Presidents of Ivy League universities...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair If ever there were a need for immediate cease-fires, it is the wars between Russia and Ukraine and between Israel and Hamas.  The Ukrainian counter-offensive over the past six months has led to a Ukrainian...
Words matter. No more so than in legal settings. Genocide is the word most associated with Israel's more than one-month-long assault on Gaza. In response to the October 7 Hamas attack against Israel, in which at least 1,200, mostly civilian, Israelis...