INTELLIGENCE AND THE NGOs OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
There is a heated debate in Italy about some NGO’s which, according to the prosecutor of Catania, Carmelo Zuccaro, are allegedly in cahoots with the human traffickers who profit from the flow of immigrants from Libya to Europe...
THE MIDDLE EAST AND ITS SANDY BORDERS
One of the outstanding issues for the future of the Middle East is whether the present-day configuration of States and micro-States will continue to exist once the ISIS is defeated. The advent of the caliphate has had the side-effect of re-igniting a series of social, ethnic and religious contradictions that had been forgotten...
THE NEVER-ENDING WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE HEZBOLLAH
Both parties know it. It’s only a
matter of time. Sooner or later, war will break out again. Israel is
strengthening its defensive lines along the border with Lebanon,
while the Hezbollah continue to pile up weapons, intensify trainings
and prepare for the next confrontation. Ever since Israel left
Lebanon in 2000 after 22 years of occupation and following the
disastrous invasion of 2006, there has been an ongoing direct or
indirect military struggle with the Shia militant group. A direct
clash has been postponed due to the Hezbollah’s involvement in
Syria alongside Bashar al Assad. The Israelis have only struck
military convoys carrying sophisticated Iranian supplies of weapons
from Syria to Lebanon, or when the Shia militias got too close to the
Golan heights...
