Archivo categoría «Próximo-Medio Oriente»
Por Yezid Sayigh, investigador asociado del Centro Carnegie para Oriente Medio de Beirut Traducción: José María Puig de la Bellacasa (LA VANGUARDIA, 09/02/12):
La muerte totalmente evitable de alrededor de ochenta aficionados al fútbol egipcios en un estadio en Port Said a finales de enero provocó una ola de teorías de la conspiración según las cuales la policía egipcia, el Consejo Supremo de las Fuerzas Armadas (CSFA) al mando del país e incluso el presidente estadounidense, Barack Obama, y la CIA han sido acusados de violencia planificada. El jefe del Consejo, el mariscal Mohamed Husein Tantaui, puso su grano … Seguir leyendo
By Liu Xiaoming, Chinese ambassador to Britain (THE GUARDIAN, 09/02/12):
Rather a lot of megaphone diplomacy followed the recent UN vote on Syria. Confusion and anger flowed from British and western media. So why did Russia and China veto the UN security council draft resolution on Syria? As Chinese ambassador in the UK, I feel it is timely to give a more measured explanation of why China voted no. Also, I want to explain how together we can, must and should give peace a chance in Syria.
Since day one of this crisis, China has been watching the … Seguir leyendo
Por Luis de la Corte Ibáñez, profesor de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (ABC, 08/02/12):
Finales de enero de 2002. El entonces coronel Jaime Coll llegaba a Kabul para mandar el primer contingente militar español enviado a Afganistán. La operación «Libertad duradera» había hecho caer al régimen talibán y el Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas había ordenado una misión paralela para respaldar al nuevo gobierno provisional, ISAF («International Security Assistance Force»), la más peligrosa y costosa en la que han estado involucradas nuestras fuerzas armadas. Transcurridos diez años, las dos misiones continúan. Como era previsible en el actual … Seguir leyendo
Par Volker Perthes (LE TEMPS, 07/02/12):
L’embargo sur les importations de pétrole iranien et les sanctions contre la Banque centrale iranienne prononcés par les ministres des Affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne, le 24 janvier dernier, sont intervenus après plusieurs semaines de fièvre galopante impliquant l’Iran, Israël et les Etats-Unis: manœuvres militaires iraniennes dans le golfe Persique, menace de Téhéran de fermer le détroit d’Ormuz, tests de missile menés avec ostentation par les Israéliens, meurtre d’un scientifique nucléaire iranien et innombrables déclarations politiques envisageant la possibilité, et parfois même la nécessité, de procéder à des frappes militaires contre l’Iran.
Les propos … Seguir leyendo
Par Emmanuel Navon, professeur de relations internationales à l’Université de Tel-Aviv (LE MONDE, 07/02/12):
L’idée que les localités israéliennes bâties au-delà des lignes d’armistice de 1949 constituent un obstacle à la paix est devenue un dogme chez les diplomates et journalistes européens. Or ce dogme est contredit par trois faits :
1. Le monde arabe était en guerre contre Israël bien avant la construction des premières implantations israéliennes dans les années 1970 ;
2. Le leadership palestinien a rejeté à deux reprises l’offre israélienne (par Ehud Barak en juillet 2000 et par Ehud Olmert en septembre 2008) de démanteler … Seguir leyendo
By Nicholas Noe, a contributing writer for Bloomberg View and the editor of “Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/02/12):
ALMOST one year after anti-government protests began in Syria, a disaster of enormous moral and strategic proportions is fast approaching. Full-scale civil war is now likely. And a multifront, conventional and possibly unconventional war ignited by events in the Levant is also increasingly plausible.
However, many in the West, in some Arab governments and even in the Syrian opposition still think a “controlled collapse” of Bashar al-Assad’s government is possible.… Seguir leyendo
By Wadah Khanfar, former director general of the al-Jazeera network (THE GUARDIAN, 06/02/12):
While Russia and China were using their veto to abort a UN security council resolution against the Syrian regime, the news of a massacre in Homs came thick and fast. In an unprecedented escalation, the Syrian regime sought to exploit the international hesitancy to have a bloody showdown with its opposition.
This came after Syrians had observed for the first time in 30 years the anniversary of the massacre carried out in Hama in February 1982. It is regarded as one of the most gruesome … Seguir leyendo
By Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, chairman of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the main opposition party in Turkey (THE WASHINGTON POST, 06/02/12):
Many in Washington have been debating whether Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) could be a model for the Arab Spring , as our neighbors in the Middle East aspire to get rid of totalitarian regimes and become true democracies. But the reality in Turkey makes clear that the AKP model does not hold.
On Nov. 9 I visited the Silivri prison where hundreds of journalists, publishers, military officers, academics and politicians are being held. Trials were … Seguir leyendo
Por Ilan Pappe, profesor del Instituto de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos de la Universidad de Exeter, director del Centro Europeo de Estudios Palestinos y codirector del Centro de Estudios Etno-Políticos (Exeter). Out of Frame (2010) es su biografía intelectual, y este texto es una síntesis de dos de sus capítulos. Traducción de Pilar Salamanca (EL PAÍS, 06/02/12):
A finales de 1980 decidí dar un curso sobre el conflicto israelo-palestino en la Universidad de Haifa. Al finalizar, y de acuerdo con sus preferencias, los estudiantes presentaron sus conclusiones en forma de proyectos o trabajos de investigación. Algún tiempo después, uno … Seguir leyendo
By Michele Dunne, a former White House and State Department official and Shuja Nawaz, the author of Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within. Both are the directors of the Middle East and South Asia centers, respectively, at The Atlantic Council (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 04/02/12):
One year after the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military is closing down civil society organizations and trying to manipulate the constitution-writing process to serve its narrow interests. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, where the military has also held sway for more than half the country’s existence — … Seguir leyendo
By Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of the report Democracy Promotion Under Obama: Revitalization or Retreat? (THE WASHINGTON POST, 04/02/12):
Just after the first anniversary of the onset of the Arab Spring, the Obama administration announced in December an enormous arms sale to Saudi Arabia, with a price tag greater than the annual gross domestic product of more than half the countries in the world. The administration hailed the sale as a “historic achievement” that “reinforces the strong and enduring relationship between the United States … Seguir leyendo
By Lee Smith, a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (THE WASHINGTON POST, 03/02/12):
Aside from Egypt, perhaps no place in the world was more galvanized by the events in Cairo’s Tahrir Square last year than Washington. American policymakers and foreign policy experts on both sides of the aisle rallied behind the cause of the young men and women who braved violence at the hands of the country’s notoriously vicious state police to march for freedom.
The Obama administration saw its defense of the revolutionaries, and its eventual demand … Seguir leyendo
By Robert A. Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 03/02/12):
As the death toll in Syria has climbed to perhaps 7,000, proponents of humanitarian intervention are asking, quite reasonably, why the West does not intervene as it did in Libya last year. Not only was Libya’s dictator, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, ousted with relatively few Western casualties, but the NATO campaign also set a precedent for successful humanitarian intervention.
In the 63 years since the United Nations adopted a genocide convention in the wake of the Holocaust, world leaders have failed … Seguir leyendo
By William H. Luers, a career diplomat who served as United States ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Venezuela and as president of the United Nations Association from 1999 to 2009 and Thomas R. Pickering, an under secretary of state for political affairs in the Clinton administration who served as United States ambassador to Russia, Israel, Jordan and the United Nations (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 03/02/12):
“If you deal in camels, make the doors high,” an Afghan proverb cautions. As the dangers mount in the confrontation between the United States and Iran, both sides will have to raise the … Seguir leyendo
By Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 03/02/12):
Reactions in Europe to the Arab Awakening have veered too wildly between optimism and pessimism. As the initial euphoria gives way to the inevitable doubts, we need to stay the course and reaffirm our commitment to the emerging democracies.
Our starting point should be that democracy — everywhere — can be awkward: thrilling, inspiring and liberating, but also messy, turbulent and unpredictable. Short-term upsets are inevitable. But history, not least the history of our own continent, tells us … Seguir leyendo