As President Joe Biden was sworn in on 20 January, there was rampant debate in Israeli political circles about possible changes in American foreign policy. Can such changes impact Israeli interests? Two issues were deemed especially critical: (...)
Last week's storming of the Capitol building in Washington DC by protesters contesting the results of the US presidential race was indefensible, but the attempt of the Democratic Party and its supporters to take advantage of the incident to settle (...)
The recently released European Parliament report on the state of human rights in Egypt has elicited strong reactions in the regular and social media in Egypt and abroad.
Many have charged that the report is biased and disseminates misinformation, (...)
Donald Trump will leave the White House without achieving his slogan during the 2016 presidential campaign: “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). Joe Biden will enter the White House with the slogan: Make America United Again. Biden will likely leave (...)
Only a handful of Republicans openly expressed their disdain for outgoing US President Donald Trump and hoped their party will recover from his tenure in the name of Republicans. However, the majority of Republican members of Congress, according to (...)
While President Donald Trump continues his court battles with President-elect (according to unofficial results) Joe Biden to prevent the latter from taking the oath of office in January, Biden stated with confidence that he does not care about (...)
After the official announcement of Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential race, analysts and commentators in many Middle East countries focused on the question of the likely nature of the new administration's foreign policy in the region. Will (...)
As much as the results of the US elections are important to Americans, they are also important for many countries that have benefited or lost due to President Donald Trump's foreign policies
In the Middle East, especially, many are eagerly awaiting (...)
In just a few days, the results of the US presidential and congressional elections will be revealed. The gap between Trump and Biden in opinion polls is not as big as it was when Trump was running against Hillary Clinton. Opinion polls in 2016 (...)
“Could you imagine if I lose? My whole life, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna say I lost to the worst candidate in the history of politics. I'm not gonna feel so good. Maybe I'll have to leave the country, I don't know.”
This is what Trump said at a (...)
While recently released Hillary Clinton e-mails triggered uproar across Arab social media because of their revelations about the Barak Obama administration's role in manufacturing the “Arab Spring”, their impact in the US seems quite muted. This is (...)
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives held a hearing on Wednesday 9 September entitled “Egypt: Trends in politics, economics, and human rights,” with the notice of the time and website for the meeting being posted only a (...)
Current tensions caused by Turkey's actions in the Middle East could spur a major regional war, especially in light of recent clashes between Turkey and Greece, using navy fleets and air missiles. Also, due to Turkey's attempts to take control of (...)
In the US, the position of vice president is essentially a symbolic one that only becomes important on a few occasions, such as when the president is suddenly taken ill, or if the president dies unexpectedly, or if the president is impeached or (...)
On 5 August, presumptive presidential candidate for the Democratic Party Joe Biden announced he will not travel to his party's national convention, as a precautionary measure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In an official statement, the party said (...)
Donald Trump has suggested that November's US presidential election should be postponed, saying increased postal voting could lead to fraud and inaccurate results. Observers in the US and around the world were taken aback by this unusual suggestion, (...)
On 18 July, the Pentagon confirmed that Turkey sent 4,000 mercenaries to Libya during the first three months of this year. In a report on combating terrorism in Africa, it added that Turkey provided funds and citizenship to thousands of combatants (...)
On 10 July, US President Donald Trump said that relations with China are severely damaged, in response to a question about whether it is still possible to sign a trade agreement with China to finalise a deal signed between the two in January. Many (...)
The murder of George Floyd, an African American, has polarised the upcoming US presidential elections. It appears that Democrats and Republicans are going to battle over the past, rather than the present and future. On Independence Day, presumptive (...)
The ongoing row between US President Donald Trump and former National Security adviser John Bolton raises many questions about the motives behind Bolton's tell-all book, The Room Where It Happened, in which he describes Trump as ignorant and did not (...)
It is not the first time that angry protesters and activists on social media demand autonomy for their cities or states. Before Seattle protesters made the demand recently in protest over the murder of George Floyd last month, some in California (...)
The riots that continued for over a week in dozens of US cities are finally subsiding, but there are still calls for continued protests and mobilisation. This all serves Joe Biden — even if only temporarily — who tweeted 5 June: “Folks, we have (...)
President Donald Trump could have done without another crisis during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the murder of George Floyd, an African American man, at the hands of a white policeman triggered dozens of protests across the US which burst into (...)
Between December 2006 and June 2010, the UN Security Council issued four resolutions imposing sanctions on Iran for trying to manufacture nuclear weapons. After Iran signed a nuclear deal with the five permanent members of the Security Council plus (...)
While Germany has banned Hizbullah activities on German soil, it has not taken similar action against the Muslim Brotherhood, a much more dangerous organisation given its ideological and organisational relations with virulent Islamist terrorist (...)
