Palestinian «isle of Stability» amidst the storming sea of Arabian revolutions

For several months tensions in the Middle East have been growing with each passing day. Protests, gradually turning into a bloody manslaughter, have spread from Tunisia to Libya, having struck the territories of Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria. As for the geographic center of these events, we have Israel, Hamas in the Gaza strip and Fatah at the West Bank. Why haven’t the mass protests movement flared up in this area, although it should have been the utmost appropriate thing to expect from Palestinians?

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For several months tensions in the Middle East have been growing with each passing day. Protests, gradually turning into a bloody manslaughter, have spread from Tunisia to Libya, having struck the territories of Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria. As for the geographic center of these events, we have Israel, Hamas in the Gaza strip and Fatah at the West Bank. Why haven’t the mass protests movement flared up in this area, although it should have been the utmost appropriate thing to expect from Palestinians?

UNSTABLE DICTATORSHIPS OR A DICTATORSHIP OF INSTABILITY?

News about situation in Arabian countries keeps coming in a terrifying pace. Places where revolutions have already died out still feature the destabilizing processes. The countries where the revolutions are still ripening, however, show the signs of their inevitability. Arabian revolutions cause the distraction even among the so-called political elites — how else can we explain an attempt of Kazakhstan UNESCO representative to hijack the plane travelling from Paris to Rome and send it to Tripoli?

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News about situation in Arabian countries keeps coming in a terrifying pace. Places where revolutions have already died out still feature the destabilizing processes. The countries where the revolutions are still ripening, however, show the signs of their inevitability. Arabian revolutions cause the distraction even among the so-called political elites — how else can we explain an attempt of Kazakhstan UNESCO representative to hijack the plane travelling from Paris to Rome and send it to Tripoli?

TURKEY–IRAN: APPROACH AND RIVALRY? Part II

Competing for influence over the Middle East, Ankara and Tehran will inevitably clash in Syria

Competition of Turkey and Iran in Syria is accompanied by simultaneous Turkish self-assertion in the Western direction. Turkey makes the USA and the EU accept the fact that they would have to recognize leadership of Ankara in the Islamic world — age of direct influence over the Middle Eastern countries is coming to an end.  New, post-revolutionary layout in the region will seemingly be characterized by indirect influence of major Western world powers on the settlement of Middle Eastern peace.

TURKEY–IRAN: APPROACH AND RIVALRY? Part I

Erdoğan fights Ahmadinejad for sympathies of Arabs

Middle East has once again become the ball game that drawn the attention of entire world. Former empires — Turkey and Iran — approach each other, although desperately competing with each other at the same time. Arabian world is at stake in this struggle of no joke. And that’s quite a lot in any sense — 35 million hearts, minds and wallets.

FAST TRAIN OF ARABIAN REVOLUTIONS PROCEEDS WITHOUT STOPPING IN DAMASCUS. Part II

Native population of Syria is carefully watching the situation in Libya, being afraid that it might repeat in their own country. We may hardly expect military invasion of NATO into Syria even in case of an outright stand between the authorities and protesters. At least, when the issue will be considered at the UN Security Council, we may be sure that this time Russia will veto the decision, and without permit of Security Council NATO would hardly make its mind to decisive actions.

Fast train of Arabian revolutions proceeds without stopping in Damascus. Part I

„God, Syria and Freedom” is the main motto of people, protesting against Syrian ruler Bashar Al-Assad in the south of the country. Like in the rest of Arabian countries ablaze with revolutionary flames, people demand to cancel the state of emergency, which was imposed 48 hours ago, supress corruption and fight unemployment and poverty.

Post-Gaddafian Africa. Part II

In the middle of 90s Colonel Gaddafi decided to give up his venturesome-terrorist policy at the African continent and became one of the African Union architects — this Euro-Union-like organization including an entire Africa. On the 9^th of September, 1999 African leaders adopted the declaration on creation of African Union (AU) during the OAU summit in the Libyan city of Sirt. Since the very beginning Gaddafi played the leading role in it. Despite his dubious reputation, he had an unchallenged authority within the AU, having voiced out the general urge of African countries for the equal partnership with the USA, the EU, India and China.