On Palestine:
“The world’s politicians will get nowhere if they approach the violence as a case of Israel versus Hamas, since it is clearly a war in which the majority of victims are unarmed Palestinian civilians,” said Lebanon’s Daily Star in its editorial. “Meanwhile, countries such as Syria, Qatar and Turkey, are busy politicising the conflict, putting their own spin on the hostilities in a way that serves their interests, and not those of the victims.
“But a minority of voices are deflecting the efforts and describing the situation as it really is. Israel has long complained that the Palestinians are divided politically between Hamas and Fatah and there is no ‘partner for peace’. When the two sides recently hammered out a unity government plan, Israeli leaders were aghast, and it didn’t take long for a violent response to emerge.”
The UAE’s Al Bayan said that based on international charters and laws, this heinous crime executed by the Zionist entity against Gaza is a war crime. It said: “Everyone is talking about calming things down without analysing the reasons behind the war and without even discussing a real political solution through which the occupation will end. However, everyone shoved the political aspects aside and are instead focusing on a security solution.”
On Russia and Ukraine:
The Oman Tribune spoke about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s increasing popularity, especially with the prospect of a greater Russia by returning territories that broke away from the Soviet Union. “More European Union sanctions against Russia may be futile. New sanctions can embolden them to act and create new tension. Many experts feel that with Crimea in his pocket, Putin’s target may next be the whole of Ukraine and Moldova, an endeavour that many Russians will support. A lot of Russians also want Putin to get back the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, Poland and other territories that once kowtowed before Moscow.
On Isil:
The Jordan Times’ editorial expressed shock at the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) issuing a deadline of a few hours to Mosul’s Christians to convert, pay a special tax, leave or face death. “This is no time to remain silent in the face of this atrocious attack on the few thousand Christians still remaining in Iraq after wave upon wave of their coreligionists left the country over the past two decades. What adds insult to injury is that this form of attack on Christians comes in the aftermath of the deep division and bloodbath between Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq and Syria.
