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The US administration has made decisions that go against the two-state solution Thus, skepticism reigns in many conflict experts over seven decades old. "The Bahrain conference is badly off and not likely to do much," says Hugh Lovatt, researcher at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) for the Maghreb and the Middle East. Indeed, the idea of ​​ economically helping the Palestinians before any political agreement has already been advanced in the early 1990s, then in the 2000s, each time ending in failure. "A lot of the countries that are going to participate are more present in order not to displease Washington rather than in the hope that this really ends," the researcher told ECFR. "It's been two years since the US administration made decisions that go against the two-state solution. " Since taking office in January 2017, Donald Trump has worked to undermine one by one the main foundations of the so-called two-state solution,...

Donald Trump's plan for the Middle East can not work. In society there are moral rules that prevail over wealth. The United States has revealed the financial aspect that they will present at an international meeting in Manama in the coming days.  Jared Jushner, the political son of the American president, revealed that 50 billion dollars will be offered to the Palestinians to accept the political plan. "You will be rich, but you will not be independent": this is the purpose of a bad "solution" that tries to suppress at once the existence of two independent states. Instead, Israel will be the only regional power, and the territories occupied by the Jewish state will remain as they are, in violation of international law. The “peace to prosperity” plan, set to be presented by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner at an international conference in Bahrain next week, includes 179 infrastructure and business projects, according to details of the plan and ...

                               Mohamed Morsi, 67, died Monday Former Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, 67, died Monday of a heart attack after a hearing in Cairo, nearly six years after being deposed by then-leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of the Army. Mohamed Morsi was buried on Tuesday. "He was buried in Medinat Nasr, in eastern Cairo, in the presence of his family," said Maksoud, one of his lawyers. "The funeral prayer was made at the prison hospital in Tora," he said. The Islamist leader was imprisoned in 2013 since his dismissal by the army. He was later tried in a number of cases, including a spy case in favor of Iran, Qatar and groups such as Hamas in Gaza. He had been sentenced to a total of 45 years in prison in two cases, inciting violence against protesters in late 2012 and spying for Qatar. He was also tried in two other trials after the quashing of two verdicts aga...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accused Iran of attacks  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Sunday accused Iran of attacks on the two tankers in the Sea of ​​Oman on Thursday. "The Iranian regime did not respect the Japanese Prime Minister's presence in Tehran and responded to his  efforts in diplomacy by attacking two oil companies, one of which was Japanese," the prince said in an interview with the daily Asharq al -Awsat. The attacks occurred near the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-third of the oil shipped by sea passes through the world. They targeted Thursday a Japanese ship carrying methanol and a Cypriot tanker carrying naphtha, at the time when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was visiting Tehran in hopes of easing tensions between Iran and the United States. "We do not want a war in the region, but we will not hesitate to react to any threat against our people, our sovereignty, our territorial integrity and our vital inter...

POMPEO AND THE TRUMP'S "PEACE PLAN" FOR MIDDLE EAST Secretary of State of the USA, Mike Pompeo, has revealed the lines of the plan that President Trump wants to impose in the Middle East, and has admitted that this plan "contains two good things and nine bad things". In a conversation with American Jewish representatives, released by the Washington Post, Pompeo has confirmed what is already known: That the United States will not oppose Israel if it annexes new territories and that the "peace plan" supports Israel blindly, without recognizing the Palestinians any rights. WP excerpts "A peace plan that lays down Israel’s right to sovereignty over certain areas of the West Bank could bolster calls from those pushing for annexation. If Israel did go ahead with annexation, the administration would then consider “what would be the best ways to achieve the outcomes that we think are in America and Israel’s best interests,” Pompeo said. ...

THE SUMMITS OF RIYADH AND MECA The Arab and Islamic countries gathered this week at three summits held in Riyadh and Mecca, reaffirmed their support for Saudi Arabia in the clash with Iran, which is accused of destabilizing the Middle East. But what seems to be more important is that these countries stressed to support the cause of the Palestinian people and their right to have an independent State whose capital would be in the city of Jerusalem. This support is important because it coincides with the efforts made by US President Donald Trump to defend his so-called "peace plan" in the Middle East. A plan that does not recognize the thesis of the two States, Irael and Palestine, living in peace side by side. Since taking office, Trump has reversed the US position by aligning with Israel at levels never reached by previous US presidents. Trump, on the other hand, maintains that Israel must be consolidated as a segregationist state. The Palestinians would not be indepe...