Open Dialogue Research Journal
The European Union once again found itself at the center of a sanctions debate. On the agenda was yet another package of measures, intended to tighten pressure on Russia. Among the proposals was a ban on issuing visas to Russian citizens, restrictions on movement, and new barriers in trade and […]
Pakistani-US ties are on the cusp of a renaissance that could restore their Old Cold War-era “golden age” of relations provided that they remain on track as expected. Trump’s claim that “the Prime Minister and Field Marshal of Pakistan…were with us right from the beginning” as the US devised its Gaza peace plan that […]
He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari Prime Minister by his host to apologise for striking Doha and made to pay lip service to the prospect of a Palestinian state – but Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu had many reasons to be pleased. On September 29, […]
It takes a lot to make UN delegates walk out from an address to the General Assembly. But this was precisely what Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, managed to achieve in his September 26 speech. His address began by attempting to show his country as a guardian of law and […]
In a country where democracy reigns and the memory of the atrocities committed by the German Nazis against the Jewish people is still alive, chaos reigns. Although German society is democratic, it is divided in its views on the situation in Israel. At the same time, the country regularly commemorates […]
It is shocking to consider that a Jew could be a Nazi. Yet a few rare exceptions were, and received the title of “Honorary Aryan” from the Führer. Vladimir Jabotinsky, the leader of the “Revisionist Zionists,” did not receive it, but he shared with the Nazis their racial conception of […]
The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has become the stage for one of the most consequential diplomatic shifts in recent memory. Dozens of countries, including several long‐time Western allies of Israel, have formally recognised the State of Palestine. Coupled with recent United Nations resolutions, this marks […]
“True to the historic commitment of my country to the Middle East, to peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, this is why I declare today, France recognises the state of Palestine.” So stated President Emmanuel Macron to more than 140 leaders in attendance at the United Nations General Assembly on […]
Human shields, collateral damage, and incidental deaths. This is the language that Israel uses to defend its assault against Hamas and the Palestinian people as legal and justified. The claim that Israel has adhered to the laws of war, however, is extremely controversial. The UN Commission of Inquiry has now […]
Sometimes a conspiracy-theory is true and the Establishment’s narrative is a lie. Apparently, the blowback from the murder of Charlie Kirk is exposing what quite possibly, if not probably, are evidences that are forming themselves into a very credible narrative — not only about that killing, but about who the […]
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