Dr. Trita Parsi | Middle East Expert | Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft:
 
The Israeli description of Arabs as “a hodgepodge of tribes” is a long-held position, making it justified to keep them destabilized & weak.
 
Most countries define threat as capacity plus hostile intent. For Israel, threat equals capacity. Hostile intent is always assumed.
 
For Israel to be secure, everyone else has to be insecure.

The Abraham Accords was not peace. It was to bring Arab states into dependency on Israel & the US for Israel’s strategic edge.
 
Dependent states aren't seen as threats. Jordan can’t act against Israel. All its weaponry & systems are American.
 
That veneer is now gone. Arab states can no longer easily be sold on paying the cost of abandoning the Palestinian cause.

If certain far-right or far-left forces were to take responsibility, it would be a clear drop in support for Ukraine.

Marine Le Pen has already announced that after six months she would end all French support to Ukraine.

At the moment when empires are awakening, it is the European Union that allows us to resist, that will allow us, if we give ourselves the means, to open a third way and not be the vassals of either side.

It is time for the internet, the virtual space, to be treated with the utmost seriousness.

What happens in the virtual world influences people's minds and actions just as strongly, and sometimes even more strongly, than what happens in the real world.

What is prohibited and illegal in real life must also be prohibited and eliminated from the virtual world.

The Krakow killer actually passed psychological examinations less than a year ago when he applied for a firearms permit.

We cannot create a perfect world here, but I want us to be certain that Poland remains, as it has been until now, a relatively safe country, if not one of the safest in this respect.

This is the first such case. Let us do everything to make sure it is the last.

Germany is the world's largest payer of so-called development aid, most recently 26 billion annually. We are the global leader, ahead of the USA.

Germany is also the main payer for Ukraine aid, and is currently in danger of becoming the sole financier of a war in which the USA has long since lost interest.

Friedrich Merz is now threatening today to freeze funds so that everyone participates.

The primary reasons are the cost of living and the war against Iran.

The Republicans went into the election campaign promising not to start any wars.

At the latest, when they started the war against Iran, when they intervened in Iran, they broke that campaign promise.

That came back to bite them brutally.

I am not defending ICE's actions at all. The Americans have to judge that for themselves.

I don't believe that should be our approach in Germany. We would prefer a different approach.