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Is Trump's Gaza Riviera plan ploy to usurp strip’s oil deposits

Saeed Naqvi It quite beats me that President Donald Trump is willing to go thousands of miles across the oceans to empty Gaza of Palestinians and take it over to develop the seafront as a Riviera. “Beautiful, beautiful,” he said smacking his lips. The Sunday Essay He will be poaching in the land promised by the Bible exclusively for Jews. Well, Miriam Adelson, Billionaire-owner of Las Vegas Sands, a Jewish philanthropis...

Who won the Israel-Hamas war?

Saeed Naqvi There is a growing school of thought led by the US, that the West is fighting with its back to the wall in West Asia and Ukraine not to obtain victories in these theatres but to protect Western hegemony now in free fall. All eyes are on Trump. How will he cope with this predicament - by erecting safety nets to cushion this fall or by making fortress America great again, lapped by the two oceans? The latter course implies le...

Syria regime change shifts focus from Gaza, Ukraine conflicts

Saeed Naqvi “Assad has fled his country. His protector Russia was not interested in protecting him any longer.” This is the observation of President-elect Donald Trump on the events in Syria. How will these words echo with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fighting with his back to the wall in Ukraine? If Russia can drop Assad, will Trump keep an albatross around his neck? Behind The News Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu, l...

Syrian regime change shifts focus from Gaza, Ukraine

Saeed Naqvi “Assad has fled his country. His protector Russia was not interested in protecting him any longer.” This is the observation of President-elect Donald Trump on the events in Syria. How will these words echo with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fighting with his back to the wall in Ukraine? If Russia can drop Assad, will Trump keep an albatross around his neck? Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu, literally fighting with ...

Post Gaza query: Israel In new world order minus the hegemon?

Saeed Naqvi When the dust settles on the Israel-Gaza war, Israel will be confronted with an existential question: should it redesign itself to harmonize with the region and beyond, or continue in old, exceptional ways? The exclusive Israeli-style vengeance witnessed in the 51 days of bombardment, a jaw for a tooth, was possible only with the US hegemon standing four-square behind all of Israel’s actions. The Sunda...

Why Putin will not attend G20; Will Xi Jinping?

Saeed Naqvi It was known that President Vladimir Putin will not attend the G20, but will Xi Jinping attend? Let me take up Putin first: Putin did not attend the Bali Summit last November. The reasons that kept him away from that meeting have not gone away. Why then would he have acted differently on this occasion? Sunday Story Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, attended in his place. When he got up to speak, parti...

If you make Imran Khan impossible, you make the Army rule inevitable

Saeed Naqvi Liberal democracy, the one that is yoked to capitalism, already in hopeless disrepair worldwide, received another drubbing next door in Pakistan. With innovative audacity, the establishment attempted to play Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. The Prince, in this case, has been locked up in jail. It happened like this. The Pakistan Cricket Control Board produced a video clip on the history of Pakista...

Changing global equations in the aftermath of the Ukraine war

Saeed Naqvi The Ukraine war has already yielded one of its most important outcomes even though the Western media does not dwell on it with enthusiasm. It is now confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt that US hegemony has been irreversibly replaced by a multi-polar world. G7 is a grouping in decline; BRICS is the expanding reality. In this altered order, nations are busy consolidating their slots. The Turkish President, Recc...

How Muslims in Mandela’s cabinet Outgrew their religious identity

Saeed Naqvi When a school invited me for a talk on Mandela Day last week, accompanied by my TV interview with Madiba, as he was affectionately called, I was transported back to one of the most exciting assignments I had done – the end of Apartheid in South Africa in February 1990. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signalled the end of the Soviet Union. This, in its wake, unfroze conflicts across the globe which had ...

India has to maintain its policy of strategic autonomy at any cost

Saeed Naqvi The passing away of Subhash Chakravarty last month has not been much noticed because Subhash or Dada, as some of us called him, as a long-time chief of the Bureau of The Times of India did not have the exposure of, say, a Kuldip Nayar. More than his readers, fellow journalists would remember him. He was more of a newshound than a popular writer. Editors got hooked on him because of the vast quantities of informa...

West exerting for documents critical of Russia at G20, BRICS, SCO

Saeed Naqvi Even though the purpose for which the Ukraine war was provoked has boomeranged on the West, the capacity of the US to needle Russia and not let it rest in peace remains undiminished. Western guerrilla actions are feared in each one of the international conferences lined up around the theme of Ukraine. Some of these conferences may not be focused on Ukraine but Ukraine will dominate proceedings. Step by...

Hard for someone from Lucknow to accept that the South Is gentler

Saeed Naqvi “People are gentler, and drawing rooms are refreshingly free of tense conversations on communalism.” My wife was summing up her impressions as we caught the flight to Delhi after an extended stay in Ooty and Bengaluru during the recent State elections. The Sunday Story I consider myself privileged to have been installed as the regional editor of the Indian Express from 1979 to 84, headquartere...

Garish IPL and the stories of Cricket when it was a gentleman’s game

Saeed Naqvi Call me a dinosaur if you like but as an amateur cricket lover, I have been firmly averse to Indian Premier League (IPL) despite peer pressure from friends, family which includes my granddaughter. That is why it was like another fall of man when I found myself sitting up in bed because an extraordinary happening on TV kept me riveted. It was compelling beyond belief. Shubhman Gill was stroking, not hit...

Does Syria’s return into Arab League bring US down another notch?

Saeed Naqvi The irony of Volodymyr Zelensky making an appearance at the Arab League Summit in Jeddah to witness Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad reoccupy his chair in the League, appears to have been lost on most. Arab leaders, accustomed to US hegemony, have switched because they are convinced of American decline. Syria is the beneficiary of this appraisal. After 20 years of occupying Afghanistan and 10 years of total control ...

Is India truly a “bad bet” for the US as Ashley Tellis alleges?

Saeed Naqvi After two decades of intense India-US courtship the American foreign policy expert who has more or less chaperoned the suitors, has come to the dire conclusion that India likes to be cuddled but will not consummate. In a revealing article in Foreign Affairs magazine earlier this month, Ashley Tellis, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Tata Chair for International Peace, has said ...

Counting winners and losers in Ukraine is becoming easier

Saeed Naqvi My great Aunt Nani Ammi, in her fertile imagination, had dreamt up war as a tennis match where soldiers shot at each other until dusk, after which it was time for tea and exchanging of samosas and pastries across the trenches. The Sunday Read Therefore, when my first khaki uniform, web belt, beret, and army shoes were packed in a black trunk in readiness for my coverage of Chhamb in the Western sector during...

Zelensky opens up the Church front: expels Orthodox bishops, priests

Saeed Naqvi By expelling the Orthodox Church from its traditional holy enclave, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky maybe ignite a fire that can spread to the Balkans. It is a risky gamble considering that he is Jewish. After me the deluge! Is that his call? Sunday Story However, first the facts: The 980-year-old exquisite Pechersk Lavra complex of monasteries in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, will soon be emptied of its dist...

Turkey, Iran, and Syria postpone Moscow meeting as Xi Jinping arrives

Saeed Naqvi To gauge the importance of the Saudi-Iran rapprochement, mediated by China, it would be useful to see the evolution of this relationship since the Islamic revolution of 1979. In an era aching for peace, such a radical development would undoubtedly be infectious. Just as the world sat up in wonder at the development, signals became discernable of quiet low-key efforts at repairing other parts of the frayed tapest...

US General Mark Milley, “Ukraine should move to bargaining table.”

Saeed Naqvi I know a horrid, horrid man As quiet as a mouse Who does the mischief that is done In everybody’s house! There’s no one ever sees his face And yet we all agree That every plate we break was cracked ---By Mr. Nobody. Mr. Nobody was in action again, this time more audaciously than ever before. On September 26, 2...

The 10-minute Lavrov-Blinken meeting not to be sniffed at

Saeed Naqvi It is a toss-up. Which of the two incidents at the G20 was more important: the 10 minutes Blinken-Lavrov exchange or the contentions in the way of a joint communique? Both give diverse signals on whether or not there is a suggestion in the air about a crawl toward peace in Ukraine. In the 70s, a well-known strategist at Rand Corporation, Fred Ikle wrote, “All Wars Must End.” Trust a recent study by R...

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