Israel and the Palestinian Resistance have agreed with Egyptian mediation on an unconditional ceasefire after 11 days of intense attacks on Gaza. The tension that started with the assault of Israeli forces and settlers to Palestinians and Arab Knesset members in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem and escalated with the raid on Masjid al-Aqsa on May 7. ...
Recent Israeli aggressions and Palestinian response brought the role of Iran as a supporter of various Palestinian resistance groups into the focus again. United World International spoke to Foad Izadi, Associate Professor, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, on Iran’s position on the conflict and possible effects of resurging clashes on nuclear negotiations. What are Iran’s current actions in ...
Usually I don’t see TV news. I did an exception and I followed the English program of the German state television DW at 8.00 pm UTC time (23.00 Athens time) on May 12th. Crisis periods are extremely useful if you want to understand who is really controlling the media. In “usual” periods, media are provided, by those who control them, with ...
With the recent attacks of Israel on Palestinians and the response from Palestinian Organizations as well the Palestinian population, international diplomatic efforts have also accelerated. United World International has therefore prepared a dossier on the position and actions of major international actors and countries Egypt: Frequent cease-fire mediator Egypt, southern neighbor and only exit of the Gaza Strip, is supporting ...
Last week, the public agenda in Turkey had been busy with four main topics. First one has been the reaction on the Latvian parliament’s decision to recognize the so-called Armenian Genocide. Second has been the meeting held in Turkish capital Ankara, between the Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki. Third has been the reaction from Turkish ...
By Khaled Yamani The heroic uprising of Bab al-Amoud (known as Damascus Gate) is not out of context, but rather a continuation of a series of events. These started with the glorious electronic gates’ uprising, the “Jerusalem Intifada 2015”, which the the occupation called the “Knife Intifada” (stabbing intifada), as well as other popular reactions that expressed the accumulated anger ...
Dr. Basem Naim, one of the leaders of the Palestinian resistance organization HAMAS, has spoken to UWI expert Onur Sinan Güzaltan about the recent events in East Jerusalem. Naim has been Minister of Health in Palestine and is currently member of Hamas’ International Relations Bureau. He said his organization would give a “strong and clear response” to Israeli attacks on ...
Turkey’s Vatan Party has started an Initiative on the New International Order (NINTO) and organized an international symposium. 38 distinguished speakers representing 24 countries from 6 continents parcipated in the symposium, among them various experts of United World International. Participants debated a wide range of issues from the end of the unipolar world to the crisis of neoliberalism, from identity ...
Turkey and Egypt, two nations on opposing sides of the Eastern Mediterranean, have initiated the first steps towards a normalization process. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavuşoğlu has announced that an official delegation from Ankara will visit Cairo and held diplomatic contacts during the first week of May. The Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has signaled that his country is ready ...
Pope Francis made his first foreign trip since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic to Iraq, a country that has been hit with numerous terrorist attacks since Joe Biden took office. Iraq has been plagued by insecurity and crisis since the US-led invasion in 2003, which took millions of lives among its civilians and forced hundreds of thousands into exile. ...