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Other side of the coin

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By K.N. Pandita

As usual, Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, essentially a component of self defence strategy, has evoked big and small protest rallies in some of the western countries with sizeable Muslim emigrants from Semitic and non-Semitic world.

Sections of western media known for empathy with Muslim community cause, have given Israel’s counteraction in Gaza more than expected hype when compared with various inhumanities perpetrated by actors on global level. BBC, with its unquestioned worldwide reach, does not fail to give a touch of victimization to events like these on global level. After all, oil diplomacy works in somewhat puzzling manner. Continue Reading…

Emerging Caliphate in Middle East

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By K.N. Pandita

Clash of oil interests, retrograde Gulf monarchies, politicization of religion and the resultant dangerously deepening Shia-Sunni sectarian divide are at the root of armed conflicts and social-political unrest in contemporary Middle East.

To this explosive situation, Iran-US nuclear deal has served a match stick to the powder keg. Saudi monarch took it direct affront to his country’s pre-eminence as the leader of Islamic world, a privilege stubbornly contested by Iran under the clerical rule. Taking the deal a precursor to fundamental change in regional strategy, Riyadh decided realignment of perceptions in the region, a compulsion she attributed to Iran-US détente. Continue Reading…