Adel Abdel Ghafar is the Director of the Foreign Policy and Security Program at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He says Blinken's comments will not have any impact on the realties on the ground in Gaza.
An incoming Trump administration plans to ransack the civil service. But it needs reform, not demolition.
According to Faozi al-Goidi, a fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, the rebels are not likely to be deterred anytime soon and could also target vessels further out in the Indian Ocean.
The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) Think Tank Forum, co-hosted by the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (ME Council) and the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut, concluded successfully in Doha on September 24.
Can there be any hope for true democracy in Algeria, if no one trusts the vote?