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The Israeli Plan for a railway linking the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf

8 November 2018

On 5 November 2018, the Israeli Minister for Transport and Intelligence, Israel Katz, presented his plan for a railway linking the Mediterranean to the Gulf. The plan is to construct a rail route that would pass through Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman. (...)

The Silk Road and Israël

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 30 October 2018

Beijing continues unceasingly to develop its « Silk Road » project. China’s vice-President, Wang Qishan, has undertaken a tour of the Near East which took him to Israël for four days. According to the agreements which have already been signed, within two years China will control the major part of (...)

The Silk Route will pass through Jordan, Egypt and Israel

19 October 2018

After the Daesh attack on the city of Palmyra, China renounced the
traditional “silk route” (Bagdad, Palmyra, Damas-Tiro). An alternative
trail had been envisaged, no longer across Syria but Turkey. This has also
been abandoned.
During antiquity there was also a secondary route through Petra (...)

The reopening of Syria’s borders with Lebanon, Israel and Jordan and soon with Iraq

19 October 2018

All border-stations between the Syrian Arab Republic and Lebanon have now
been re-opened.
On 15 October the border stations of the Syria region of Quneitra with
Golan, which is occupied by Israel, was reopened. So too were reopened the
border stations of Nassib/Jaber with Jordan.
The Iraqi (...)

Finding a way out of the war against Syria

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 11 September 2018

The White House is unable to extricate itself from the war in Syria. President Trump is hindered both by the self-proclaimed « stable state » (according to the anonymous op ed in the New York Times), which continues to pursue the Rumsfeld-Cebrowski strategy, and by the reactivated ambitions of (...)

Preparations in the Middle East for the Trump-Kushner Plan

22 August 2018

Important preparations have begun in the Middle East prior to the implementation of the Trump-Kushner plan for Palestine, the so-called “treaty of the century”.
Many details of this polemic plan are already well known, having been mentioned here and there. However the fact is that there is no (...)

US Plan for the Middle East: Preparations underway for its announcement

7 August 2018

The Trump Administration is getting ready to reveal to the public its plan
for the Middle East.
Right now the two architects of this plan, Jared Kuschner (see photo) and
Jason Greenblat, are preparing several collaborators that have to work on
the following issues:
– the consequences of the (...)

The myth of an Arab NATO

5 August 2018

The Oval Room of the White House, 20 March 2018: when he receives the Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Donald Trump displays a diagram of the forecast
US arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
According to Reuters, the Pentagon is preparing for a summit to be held on
12 and 13 October to create a Middle (...)

Chair’s statement following the 25 May 2018 meeting of the Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

Vienna (Austria) | 25 May 2018

A meeting of the Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) took place in Vienna on 25 May 2018 upon the request of the Islamic Republic of Iran in order to review the implications of the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA and discuss the way forward to (...)

The Knesset could officially support the creation of a Kurdistan

24 May 2018

The Knesset: The Likud and Israel Beytenou have introduced a draft law to give statutory force to Israel’s undertaking to promote the creation of a Kurdish State, in any of the following territories: Turkey, Syria or Iraq.
During the Cold War, Israel struck up an alliance with the Iraqi Kurds (...)

Is peace around Israël possible ?

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 22 May 2018

Although the global medias treat the events in the Greater Middle East as unconnected incidents, Thierry Meyssan interprets them as successive moves on the same chess-board. He sees the conflicts around Israël as an organic whole and questions whether President Trump has the capacity to arrive (...)

“The Art of War”

Israel: 200 nuclear weapons aimed at Iran

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 20 May 2018

The din that surrounds the US withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal hides the real issues. The most important thing is this fundamental fact: Israel is a nuclear power while Iran is not one.

Elections alone do not make for democracy

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 15 May 2018

Seen from the West, three democratic elections have just been held in Tunisia, Lebanon and Iraq. But for the People of these nations, the votes had little to do with the democratic ideal, because the institutions that were imposed upon them by the West were designed to prevent them from having (...)

Have Iran and Israël declared a new war?

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 12 May 2018

In response to the United States backing out of the nuclear agreement, the Revolutionary Guard have attacked Israël from their Syrian bases. Are we headed towards a new regional war, or is this an operation intended for the interior use of (...)

Russia is opposed to a war between Iran and Israël

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 8 May 2018

Although for the most part, observers are taking sides in the Russo-US conflict and hoping for the victory of their camp, Moscow is attempting to calm the atmosphere in the Middle East. It is therefore opposed to an attack on Israël by Iran, just as it was opposed to an Israëli operation against (...)

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