STRATEGIC ALERT Service

As many seasoned observers suspected, the “surprise attack” by Hamas on Israel was not entirely a “surprise.” On Dec. 1, the New York Times reported that Israeli intelligence and security forces had obtained a year earlier a forty-plus page document outlining a plan by Hamas for an attack on Israel. Then in July, Israeli intelligence operatives became aware of an […]

This year’s UN conference on climate change is not being totally scripted by the World Economic Forum and the IPCC. And it will likely turn out to be much worse, from their standpoint, than last year’s event in Egypt, as the voice of the Global South has become much stronger since then. The tone for the event, which runs from […]

During the Climate Change conference in Dubai, 22 countries from four continents launched the Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy on Dec. 2. In addition to the U.S., which apparently proposed the initiative, the endorsers include 14 European countries. According to the press release issued by the United States Department of Energy, the Declaration “recognizes the key role of nuclear energy […]

The game-changing march into the era of “climate neutrality by 2045”, for which German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sought global support, has not been successful, to say the least. In addition to being un-implementable and unaffordable for industry and private households, the “renewables only” approach was delivered a blow by the German Constitutional Court, which ruled unconstitutional €60 billion of the […]

Seldom in the history of modern democracies have established parties fallen and new parties grown as rapidly as now. The situation can be compared to the years and months preceding the fatal year of 1933, when the crisis was met with two opposing solutions: Hitler in Germany and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the U.S. Today, as then, the system has […]

In a press conference prior to the NATO Foreign Minister meeting in Brussels on Nov. 28-29, Jens Stoltenberg had to recognize that “even with this substantial significant military support from NATO Allies, [Ukraine has] not, over the last year, been able to move the front line. And that just reflects the fact that we should never underestimate Russia.” He reiterated […]

In the discussions on options for the future of a Palestinian state, the name of Marwan Barghouti as a possible leader has been raised, in particular in France. Dubbed the “Nelson Mandela of Palestine”, he has been imprisoned in Israel since 2002, serving five life sentences for murdering civilians in the framework of the second Intifada launched in 2000, in […]

Any rational person analyzing the economic program initially announced by Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei, the self-professed “anarcho-capitalist” who will take office on Dec. 10, would be appropriately horrified. To resolve the country’s profound economic problems — 140% inflation, 133% interest rate and 40% poverty — he vowed to impose the fascist austerity policies championed by Friedrich von Hayek of the […]

The temporary four-day truce agreed upon last week by Israel and Hamas and then extended for 48 hours, afforded a desperately-needed respite from the bombing in Gaza, together with the release of some of the hostages against that of Palestinian women and children held in Israeli prisons and, most importantly, the delivery of humanitarian aid, food and fuel to the […]

Egypt, together with Qatar and the United States, brokered the current agreement on the four-day truce in Gaza, according to Egyptian President El Sisi, who hopes it will be extended to a permanent ceasefire. On Nov. 24, he met with the Prime Ministers of Spain and Belgium in Cairo, after the two had carried out a mission “on behalf of […]