د. شهاب المكاحله — واشنطن – يبدو أن زيارة رئيس الوزراء الاسرائيلي لواشنطن وترؤسه مؤتمرا سياسيا سنويا للجنة العلاقات العامة الاميركية الاسرائيلية (إيباك) أو ما يعرف في الولايات المتحدة بـ “اللوبي الداعم لإسرائيل” تحمل رسالة موجهة للأردن والسلطة الفلسطينية. وتأتي أهمية المؤتمر هذا العام لأن  كبار الساسة الأميركيين …

NATO special services euro finance IGIL-DAESH terrorist attacks on money stolen from Libya According to the Belgian magazine Le Vif,. Over € 11 billion “evaporated” from the Libyan accounts frozen in 2011. The money intended to finance Libya’s international cooperation projects with Europe was stolen from the Belgian …

لم يكن الخطاب السنوي للرئيس بوتين خطاباً تقليدياً، وبكل تأكيد أيضاً لم يكن خطاباً يهدف لدعم حملته الانتخابية القادمة فقط، ولم يكن اختيار مقاطعة كالينينغراد لإقامة منتدى الإعلام الروسي من بين كل المقاطعات الروسية محض تحضير عبثي، هذا الخطاب سبقه الكثير من الممارسات العدائية الأمريكية حيث تحاول واشنطن …

By Shehab Al Makahleh On March 18, Russians will go through the process of (re)electing their president Vladimir Putin for a fourth term as recent polls forecast. This foreseeable victory is not only affecting Russia but rather the world including the Middle East region which is close geographically …

By Giorgio Cafiero & Shehab Al Makahleh This month’s news about the United Kingdom’s (UK) consideration of a permanent military base in Kuwait at the Gulf state’s request marked an important development in London’s return East of Suez strategy. Although the idea is not new, ongoing developments in the …

By Shehab Al Makahleh The Middle East has entered the nuclear age. The existing strategic equilibrium in the Middle East is shifting as the region seeks a new balance, an equipoise which has been in perpetual flux over the past 30 years. The Arab-Israeli and the Iranian-Arab conventional …

by Shehab Al-Makahleh and Maria Al-Makahleh King Abdullah II of Jordan visited Moscow on February 15 to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin and senior Russian officials as well as clergymen. Jordan feels isolated because of the Jerusalem issue and other regional crises, and it is particularly vexed …

By Shehab Al Makahleh The moment his plane landed in Moscow on February 15, Russian media broadcast the king while saying: “I am always very delighted and warmed by the opportunity to see my dear brother, President Putin, as a friend, a dear friend of his as well …

Maria Dubovikova The effectiveness of sanctions against Russia is debated all over the West. Some acknowledge that they do not work, and say it is time to launch a dialogue instead. Others argue that the sanctions have not achieved any visible results so far because they are insufficient, …