Is Anwar Ibrahim an extremist or just an idiot?
It's been a while since a Malaysian politician said something quite as stupid as Anwar did yesterday.
Middle East
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Trump and Netanyahu are playing “good cop, bad cop” game with Iran. And they can’t lose.
Iran has no way out from the mess it created itself. And neither Trump nor Netanyahu is going to waste this opportunity.
It’s not the nuclear advances that made Israel attack Iran
We've been hearing how Iran is just months away from building several atomic bombs for years. Has anything really changed this time?
The hidden genius of Trump’s plan for Gaza
There's a method to the madness.
Despite condemning Israel, Arab nations must secretly support its campaign in Syria
Nobody wants Syria to become a black market for chemical weapons.
Assad’s fall vindicates everything that Netanyahu has done since the October 7 attack
Iran wanted to derail Israel's attempts to build alliances with Arab nations, but ended up blowing its own instead.
Since 1948 no conflict with Israel has really been about Israel - or Palestine
A useful war can never go to waste.
The world is pushing Israel to use nuclear weapons in Gaza
If you keep accusing someone of genocide you may actually get it in the end.
Did the British or the UN want to take Arab land and give it to the new Jewish state in 1947? No.
One of the most frequently repeated falsehoods about the entire Palestinian issue is that neither Britain nor the UN had any right to divide Palestine and that the act of such division meant theft of land owned by Arabs and giving it to the Jews. This is entirely a lie.
The conflict in Israel in three points
It seems to me that most people don't really understand what the fuss in Israel is all about, particularly as Jews have their own, capable, strong country, and Palestinians are - as media often report - living in dire poverty behind guarded, concrete barriers. It's very
Afghanistan’s collapse has geopolitical advantages for the US vs. China, Russia and Iran
Disastrously unprepared and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan is surely going to go down in the history books as one of the biggest self-inflicted humiliations of the American superpower. But for all the ridicule it has drawn, it’s a far bigger issue for Russia and China (among other regional stakeholders)
Hamas’ rocket attacks have little to do with Israel - it’s a political campaign for control over Palestinian Territories
The current outburst of violence was caused by one man. And he didn’t even have to open his mouth to trigger it.