Given the lying and fact twisting that have routinely been part and parcel of accounts of what is occurring in the Middle East, the past several weeks have nevertheless been shocking in terms of how an abysmally low standard of truth can be reduced even farther.
Tag: Middle East
WOULD ISRAEL GO NUCLEAR AGAINST IRAN?
In August 1961, during a period when tensions between Washington and Moscow were at a high point, Admiral Konstantin I. Derevyanko penned a letter to Premier Krushchev.
U.S.-DUBBED ‘AXIS OF EVIL’ CARRIES OUT MILITARY DRILLS NEAR GULF OF OMAN AMID TENSIONS
China, Iran, and Russia carried out military drills near the Gulf of Oman last week and said the exercise was intended to “jointly safeguard regional maritime security.”
SPOTLIGHT: WAR IN THE RED SEA—THE ECONOMIC IMPACT
Ship traffic through the Suez Canal has fallen to about 75 vessels a week during the first half of January, compared to roughly 200 a year earlier.
BLINKEN SAYS TENSIONS IN MIDDLE EAST HAVEN’T BEEN SO HIGH IN DECADES
Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, addressed The Atlantic Festival eight days before the 7 October Hamas attack in Israel and spoke glowingly about the Middle East region.
U.S. MIDDLE EAST WAR… WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE MARKETS
At 4:00PM EST, immediately after the closing bell at the NY Stock Exchange (as is standard procedure), the U.S. began a heavy military strike against multiple Iranian targets.
ISRAEL’S WAR OF DECISION
According to Omer Bartov, a strong supporter of Israel and an astute observer of events since October 7, “In brief, Israel seems to have no political plan and a very hazardous military one. It can only blame itself—not least Netanyahu, but also the military leadership—for having arrived at this point.”
TOP TREND 2023, MIDDLE EAST MELTDOWN: MIDEAST WAR CUTS INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
Bookings for international air travel fell 20 percent below 2019 levels in the three weeks following Hamas’s attack on Israel, according to travel data service ForwardKeys.
TOP TREND 2023, MIDDLE EAST MELTDOWN: MIDEAST WAR SENDS ISRAELI BUSINESSES INTO FINANCIAL CRISIS
The Israel-Hamas war has had catastrophic impacts on Israel’s $488-billion economy, with 350,000 military reservists—about 8 percent of the country’s workforce and a large share of the retail customer base—called into service.
THE SHIFT IN FOCUS FROM UKRAINE TO THE MIDDLE EAST RAISES THE CHANCES OF WORLD WAR
The neoconservative/Netanyahu agenda of reopening the Middle East wars in the interest of Greater Israel has shoved Ukraine off the screen.