Israele – nuovo governo, vecchie politiche

Nella notte tra lunedì e martedì della scorsa settimana, mentre la maggioranza degli israeliani dormiva, un accordo a sorpresa fra il primo ministro Benjamin Netanyahu e il leader dell’opposizione Shaul Mofaz (fino a pochi giorni prima acerrimo…

Kofi Annan’s Syrian peace plan has been blown out of the water

The two suicide car bombs in Damascus on 10 May were an alarming development. Before last December suicide bombs were unheard of in Syria. Now there have been 10 such attacks, becoming increasingly deadly – 55 died in the latest…

Reshuffling Israel’s deck of cards

Israel’s largest opposition party has joined the Prime Minister’s coalition rather than go to elections, and has done so at a bargain-basement price. The move is not exactly standard political MO for oppositions, but not entirely inexplicable either. Today, Israel…