by Giovanni Giacalone On Saturday, December 27, the Italian State Police and the Financial Guard arrested seven Palestinians suspected of collecting millions of euros in support of Hamas. Authorities also issued international arrests for two others outside the country. Three associations, officially supporting Palestinian civilians but allegedly serving as a front for funding Hamas, are […]
By Amb. Dr. Mohamed Qubaty How restraint without Yemeni leverage turned crisis management into a doctrine of permanent escalation. One year after early warnings that U.S. restraint in Yemen was backfiring, the Red Sea crisis has become less an emergency than a condition—managed, mitigated, and endlessly postponed, but never resolved. What was once treated as […]
by Giovanni Giacalone On Friday, December 12, 2025, Turin’s Appeal Court released an Egyptian imam who was being held in a detention center for illegal aliens in Sicily awaiting to be deported by order of the Italian Ministry of Interior. The individual, 47-year-old Mohamed Mahmoud Ibrahim Shahin, had been preaching […]
By: Amb. Dr. Mohamed Qubaty The Houthis’ unusually explicit messaging through al-Masirah marks a dangerous turning point in one of the most volatile security environments in the Middle East. Their announcement declaring the Oman-mediated roadmap dead is not a routine expression of revolutionary rhetoric but a calculated signal of escalation. As analysts such as Fatima […]
By Amb. Dr. Mohamed Qubaty What is unfolding today across the Middle East is not the calm after Gaza, but the re-emergence of competing security architectures — a tangled web where trade routes and power balances intersect. From the Red Sea to the Levant, the region faces a defining moment: either it drifts into a […]
by Giovanni Giacalone On Saturday, October 25, 2025, Italy-based Palestinian leader Mohammad Hannoun was barred from entering the city of Milan for one year. The city’s police chief had the measure delivered to Hannoun as he stepped off the plane from Rome to Linate airport, where he was supposed to join a pro-Palestinian demonstration scheduled […]
By Amb. M. A. Qubaty A Defining Regional Moment The arc stretching from Gaza to the Red Sea, from Lebanon to Yemen and across to the Arabian Sea, is entering a perilous new phase. The region is no longer defined by Gaza alone, but by a wider confrontation pitting Israel against Iran and its regional […]
by Mohammed Salem Mujawar Over the past years, areas under the control of Yemen’s internationally recognized government, or what we call the “liberated areas,” have witnessed a rapid deterioration in all political and economic aspects, leading to a sharp decline in essential services such as electricity, water, sanitation, and more. This decline was not […]
by Giovanni Giacalone On Saturday, August 16, the controversial Italy-based Palestinian preacher Mohammad Hannoun attacked the US Treasury Department during a street demonstration in Milan organized by the Association of Palestinians in Italy, of which he is president. Hannoun and two of his associations (ABSPP and Golden Dome) were blacklisted by the US DOT twice, […]
by Turan Rzayev Recent statements by Abdullah Attari, the Palestinian ambassador to the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus, have created uncertainty in Palestine-Turkey relations. Attari’s remarks in an interview with the Greek Cypriot newspaper Politis have caused surprise and widespread debate in Turkey. He sharply criticized Ankara’s approach to the Palestinian issue. Generally, Turkey […]