The Israeli government has practically paralyzed the agency dedicated to Palestinian refugees, and sanctions have caused extensive budget cuts. But UNRWA is still the most important humanitarian organization operating in Gaza. In an interview with Haaretz, its heads tell their side of the story A locked UNRWA school in East Jerusalem, last February. Israel's anti-UNRWA laws went into effect a month earlier. Credit: Shira Diaman AMMAN - The past week has been especially turbulent for the (…)

« Les Alaouites récoltent aujourd'hui les fruits amers du vide politique, religieux et moral que leur a légué la clique Assad, et d'une forme malsaine de conscience politique à caractère sectaire qui a envahi l'espace public syrien. » Il est, en politique, des acteurs égoïstes qui agissent uniquement en fonction de leur propre intérêt, suivant ce qui leur sert ou leur nuit. A cette fin, ils s'appuient nécessairement sur des raisonnements purs et des calculs logiques, en s'affranchissant (…)

We are fifty years on from Franco's death, forty-eight years after the restoration of parliamentary democracy, and forty-four years after Colonel Tejero's failed coup. These seem like three decisive arguments for claiming that Spain has definitively left fascism behind, but nothing could be further from the truth. Few countries in Europe are as susceptible to a resurgence of fascism as the Iberian monarchy, argues historian Vincent Scheltiens-Ortigosa. Unlike Italy, Portugal and Germany, (…)