He is the author who opined that “geography is taking revenge” and that “you have to think about war, that’s the only way to be prepared.”
MIDDLE EAST
In the ever-deepening confoundment of the Palestinian-Israeli war, the protests now igniting on US college campuses offer little enlightenment other than to further testify to the extent to which this seemingly remote regional conflict is infiltrating much of American cultural and political life.
The European Union will offer economic aid to Lebanon when the European Commission president and the Cypriot president jointly visit Beirut on Thursday, a Cypriot official has said.
A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels damaged the Cyclades, a Malta-flagged, Greece-owned bulk carrier in the Red Sea on Monday, authorities said, the latest assault in their campaign against shipping in the crucial maritime route.
A humanitarian aid flotilla destined for Gaza was halted after Guinea Bissau decided to remove its flag from two vessels, activist group Freedom Flotilla Coalition said on Saturday.
The leader of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has used a visit to New York to express his solidarity with students at Columbia University protesting in opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza.
Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis, speaking to public broadcaster ERT following his Qatar visit, emphasized the challenging circumstances for the region amidst Middle East turmoil, expressing concerns about hostilities extending to Lebanon and Syria. He stressed the urgency of an immediate ceasefire, citing threats to Red Sea navigation.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said he does not believe the Palestinian militant group Hamas will leave Qatar, where it is based, adding he had seen no such signs that Doha wished the group to leave, either.
A week after Cyprus suspended the processing of asylum applications from Syrians due to a sharp increase in arrivals, the president of the Mediterranean island, Nikos Christodoulides, warned that the EU country cannot accommodate more refugees from the war-torn country.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and reach a fair and lasting peace in the region during a meeting with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul on Saturday, his office said.
The United Nations’ refugee agency said Friday that Cypriot efforts at sea to stop numerous Syrian refugee-laden boats departing Lebanon from reaching the European Union-member island nation mustn’t contravene international human rights laws or put passengers at risk.
Western states have sought to send Iran messages via Turkey in recent days to reiterate appeals for de-escalation, a Western diplomat said on Friday.
Turkey on Friday called on all sides to refrain from steps that could lead to a wider conflict in the Middle East, after Israel reportedly attacked Iran in a tit-for-tat retaliation for Iran’s strike.
The operations of the European Union’s naval mission to the Red Sea have not been affected by Iran’s first-ever direct attack on Israel but the force needs more combat ships to protect merchant vessels sailing through “a vast area,” its commander told Reuters on Tuesday.
Iran’s attack on Israel with more than 300 missiles and drones is a signification escalation of the conflict between the two. For the first time, Iran struck directly at Israel itself, not through proxies.
Greece “ unequivocally condemns the attack against Israel” and calls for “restraint from all sides in order to avoid a wider regional conflict,” government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said Sunday.
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