Richard Sanders

2 months ago | middleeasteye.net | Peter Oborne |Richard Sanders

Jordan is ready to declare war on Israel in the event that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempts to forcibly expel Palestinians into its territory, Middle East Eye understands. The warning comes in the wake of repeated statements from US President Donald Trump that he would like to see Jordan and Egypt take in Palestinians as part of a move to "clean out" the Gaza Strip.

Jul 10, 2024 | declassifieduk.org | Richard Sanders

The election of July 4 was a watershed moment. For the first time significant space opened up on the two flanks of British politics. Reform may only have won five seats, but they garnered 14.3%of the vote, prompting some to speculate we may be just a couple of elections away from the kind of results already seen in Italy and the first round of France’s parliamentary elections. The principal beneficiary in terms of seats, though, was the left.

May 20, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Richard Sanders

Salman Rushdie has said that a free Palestinian state would be “Taliban-like” and a “client” of Iran. Speaking to German broadcaster RBB, the author said that “any human right now” had to be “distressed by what is happening in Gaza because of the quantity of human death”. But, he continued: “I would just like some of the protesters to mention Hamas because that’s where this started. And Hamas is a terrorist organisation.

May 11, 2024 | globalresearch.ca | Michael Welch |Richard Sanders

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May 9, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Oscar Rickett |Richard Sanders

In the year 401 BCE, the historian, philosopher, and soldier Xenophon was returning with a group of fellow Greek mercenaries from fighting a war on behalf of the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger, who died in battle trying to remove his older brother from the throne. With their patron dead, the surviving soldiers had to flee. In front of them lay their only escape route: the vast deserts of what is now Iraq. Beyond these lay the Black Sea, and safety.