Sri Lanka has every right to speak forcefully on Palestine and international justice. But moral authority abroad cannot substitute for diplomatic precision at home. With the current account weakening, thousands of workers
Last week, I wrote an article on the two wars raging in Eurasia. It was “idiosyncratic” in that, unlike other columns circling the mediasphere, it focused on how ground combat in the Middle
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A new report from Brown University’s Costs of War project reveals that the United States has sent a record $17.9 billion in military aid to Israel over the past year, coinciding with
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The United States has frequently employed political maneuvers to gain credit for its role in the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. In July 2022, prior to a visit to the region,
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Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.” — J.E.B. Spredemann, “An Unforgivable Secret” The Attacks on 7th October 2023 The attack
More New York – I was with the Israeli army in 1982 when it invaded Lebanon and battled a new resistance militia, Hezbollah. Ten years later, I was in Afghanistan with a new Muslim
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There are two major wars being fought. One, between Ukraine and Russia, has been raging for more than two and a half years but has been roughly confined to Ukraine. The other,
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by Luxman Aravind There is a rancid stench that fills the air every time a butcher steps on the UN stage—a putrid legacy of violence, oppression, and human suffering masked by hollow
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In Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, Musa Baraka surveys his orchard with a mix of resignation and despair. The 55-year-old farmer’s land, once teeming with over 100 thriving palm trees, now tells a
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Editor’s Note: In this week’s global news dispatches, Israel escalates its conflict by extending its military campaign into Lebanon, raising concerns of regional destabilization. Meanwhile, Argentina’s university community mobilizes against President Milei’s
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Few people know that Lebanon was once part of Syria. It was separated from Syria by Imperial France and transformed into a nominally Maronite Christian nation. Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims, and Druze
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On September 18, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution that demanded that Israel immediately withdraw from the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) of East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank. The resolution used
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Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told his American counterpart on Monday that time is running out for a diplomatic solution to prevent a full-scale war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. In a phone
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You must drive up a hill to get to Birzeit University, which is just outside Ramallah (West Bank, Occupied Palestine Territory or OPT). It is a beautiful campus, established in 1924 as
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The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 40,988, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Monday. In the past 24 hours, the Israeli
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Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Russian Embassy in Colombo issued a press release today asserting a comparison between the self-determination efforts of the Palestinian people and the people of the former southeastern Ukrainian
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