Media quotes September/October 2023
Media quotes September/October 2023
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Media quotes September/October 2023

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

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