27 September 2023 2 minutes Media quotes September/October 2023 Share Facebook Twitter Email Linkedin Whatsapp Save Print 18 September 2023 Selling weapons and equipment is a way for Israel to get new ‘friends’ [in North Africa] and expand its influence, regardless of the impact it has on local tensions. Al Jazeera Riccardo Fabiani Project Director, North Africa 21 September 2023 [The police in Haiti] are completely outgunned by the gangs right now. The Guardian Diego Da Rin Consultant, Latin America and Caribbean 26 September 2023 [The coup in Niger marks] the beginning of the end of a sequence of French troops withdrawing from the central Sahel. The Guardian Jean-Hervé Jezequel Project Director, Sahel 12 October 2023 The Netanyahu doctrine that you can ignore the Palestinians without paying a price has [now] been shattered. The Wahington Post Mairav Zonszein Senior Analyst, Israel 10 October 2023 The sheer amount of doctored, fake, old videos and images of attacks circulating [online] is making it harder to understand what is going on [in Israel and Gaza]. France24 Alessandro Accorsi Senior Analyst, Social Media and Conflict 13 October 2023 Until political drivers of conflict ... start to be seriously addressed [in the Middle East], it will be difficult for regional stability to take hold in a serious way. The New York Times Anna Jacobs Senior Analyst, Gulf states 13 October 2023 If, as a result of the long conflict between Israel and Palestine, the US has to cut military support to Ukraine … the consequences won’t be until next summer. Anadolu Agency Oleg Ignatov Senior Analyst, Russia 9 October 2023 The US has very little to gain by escalating against Iran amid this Israeli-Palestinian conflict. AFP Ali Vaez Senior Adviser to the President & Project Director, Iran 19 October 2023 Israel’s lack of clarity regarding its intentions in Gaza and the evacuation of the population is in itself problematic ... This confusion fuels fears in the neighborhood. AP Riccardo Fabiani Project Director, North Africa 17 October 2023 Biden has said he supports Israel destroying Hamas, but he doesn’t want a civilian catastrophe, a humanitarian disaster ... I don’t know if those two things can coexist. Vox Mairav Zonszein Senior Analyst, Israel 19 October 2023 If you work in the [U.S.] federal government and question anything Israel does you are sidelined and silenced. HuffPost Sarah Harrison Senior Analyst, U.S. Program 17 August 2023 If an ECOWAS invasion [of Niger] happened, and there was a regional war, I think that would really put the [U.S.] Defense Department in a tricky position. Responsible Statecraft Sarah Harrison Senior Analyst, U.S. Program 13 September 2023 Commissions of inquiry and ad hoc committees have been used for decades as a way of obscuring the truth and avoiding accountability [in Sri Lanka]. Nikkei Asia Alan Keenan Senior Consultant, Sri Lanka 10 September 2023 For more than ten years, the [UN Human Rights] Council has pushed Colombo to hold accountable perpetrators of atrocities during the [Sri Lankan] civil war. Colombo Gazette Alan Keenan Senior Consultant, Sri Lanka 18 August 2023 The Saudi leadership is … aware of its domestic audience and the continuing importance of the Palestinian issue among the Saudi population and throughout the Arab world. DW Anna Jacobs Senior Analyst, Gulf states 17 August 2023 Saudi-Iran rapprochement is still in its early phases, and it’s still very unclear how the two sides will address their many points of friction. Al Jazeera Anna Jacobs Senior Analyst, Gulf states 2 August 2023 In the realm of US domestic politics, Saudi-Israel normalization would be a foreign policy win for the Biden administration. Al Jazeera Anna Jacobs Senior Analyst, Gulf states 21 June 2023 U.S. soft power and its role as a security guarantor in the [Middle East] is nowhere close to being replaced by other global powers like China or Russia. CNN Anna Jacobs Senior Analyst, Gulf states 24 August 2023 [Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt] are focused on balancing and maintaining ties with multiple powers, not picking sides and getting wrapped up in a greater power competition. Bloomberg Anna Jacobs Senior Analyst, Gulf states 4 March 2023 Like it or not, Africa will remain important to France. It is not going to withdraw from this continent. Reuters Pauline Bax Deputy Program Director, Africa 8 November 2023 New Delhi’s pro-Israel shift gives a new reason to [India's] right-wing ecosystem that routinely targets Muslims. AP Praveen Donthi Senior Analyst, India 8 September 2023 India does not want a unipolar Asia where China is dominant … It wants a multipolar Asia, which India says will lead to a multipolar world. Anadolu Agency Praveen Donthi Senior Analyst, India 14 November 2023 Myanmar needs Russia because it doesn't want to be isolated ... and they also need an alternative to China in the region. Newsweek Oleg Ignatov Senior Analyst, Russia 13 October 2023 If [war in Gaza] morphs into a long, regional conflict, resource constraints on Ukraine may grow in time. Anadolu Agency Simon Schlegel Senior Analyst, Ukraine 20 October 2023 The success of Ankara's mediation [over Gaza] will depend on how much influence the political wing of Hamas has on the armed wing. Frankfurter Allgemeine Berkay Mandıracı Senior Analyst, Türkiye Related Tags More for you