World Politics by a Middle Eastern Liberal.
What altered the domestic dynamics of the Syrian crisis and shaped its outcome to the regime’s victory? The ‘Internationalism’ had the key role in folding up Syria’s governance crisis away to its international ramifications.
Seven months ago I contended that Israel will be geopolitically the main loser of Syria’s war facing winning Iran due to its misconceived and vision-lacking strategy and failing traditional Syria policy. Israeli scholars have finally got it amid official denial.
Syrian opposition’s misconduct and mistakes became a character of the majority of its entities. Asfari-sposored Madaniya platform added a fatal misstep by mixing politics with civil work that inflicts both and damages civil activitism in future Syria.
Israel Spring has domestic and regional geopolitical significance and importance. Only profound democracy can save Israel domestically and promote regional democratization via being a requisite for the Middle East’s geopolitics of democracy and peace.
Iran’s Syria entrenchment following failed US and Israeli policies made it possible to change game rules to Iran’s benefit. Would traditional policies fit for changing Mideast?
The Chinese president’s message to his Russian counterpart has been made abundantly clear and self-evident to the extent that it needs no explanatory comments. Simply put, it is a proclamation of China’s new international role and objective, which marks a new era in terms of the international order and politics. – I have no doubt…
Less than 3 months before this major development, I wrote this commentary, which was faced with underestimation by many western fellow scholars. They wouldn’t believe it considering the announced strategic partnership between China and Saudi Arabia as just tactical maneuver by Saudi Arabia the well-established US backyard ally for timely purposes and gains. This position…
In solidarity and companionship with our sisters and brothers who have been let and abandoned under rubble in northen and north western Syria, and to remind the heinous world we are living in that we, the Syrians, who have been abandoned under rubble for about a 12 years, are not dead yet and still have…
January 16, 2023 Israel army chief has made a statement about his country’s achievements in preventing “Hizbollah 2” project in Syria. Apart from the motives behind this misleading or self-deluded statement, there are key facts should be stated and clarified concerning Iran, Israel and Syria’s war and crisis. – Iran is the most powerful actor…
December 11, 2022 This may be the beginning of the end for the West’s supremacy in the Middle East, especially for the United States. It is actually the harvest season for what the US policies has planted in the region, in particular the Obama administrations’ policies. We can’t understand the current developments in the Middle…
2 July 2014 It might be promising that the former Australian foreign minister is optimistically reporting the survival of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine. However, for those of us inside Syria, it is hard to share this optimism. In fact, we refer sarcastically to the doctrine as I2P – the Irresponsibility to Protect. This isn’t Eastern isolationism,…
The first international (non-ICC) arrest warrant of a sitting head of another state for a chemical weapons attack in Syria issued by the French judiciary by extraterritorial jurisdiction laws comes with key questions at the future international practice level.
Netherlands and Canada’s torture ICJ case against Syria opens a new chapter in the international order as it’s a precedent and it will document and recognize domestic crimes at the international level. Then, It may prompt a new era of international Indictment of Sovereign Governments’ National Crimes.
The Israeli governmental establishment is debating Israel’s strategic loss in Syria vs Iran caused by its failing strategy and policy. This commentary should help moving this debate from pretence to reality.
Ballistic missiles program is an essential part of any nuclear armament program because possessing nuclear bomb is meaningless without possessing its delivery means (ballistic missile with required range). Missed by mainstream media as Iran has it now.
With the comeback of the Syrian regime to the Arab Autocratic/Authoritarian League, the system of this regional institution has been restored to the normal operation condition. This is per se constitutes an achievement for the Arab mutual cooperation and for this institution, which has not any democratic member among 22 member states of the Arab…
Apart from outrageous ethics, Saudi-led Arab normalization with Syrian regime lacks political context and significance that derive political objectives and achievements. Futile as an agreement, can only serve to pressure Syrian people to deal with Iranian victory in Syria.