Rami G Khouri

But only if it abides by these four prin­ci­ples when putting to­geth­er its for­eign pol­i­cy to­wards the re­gion.

The Beirut blast will like­ly ush­er Lebanon into a new po­lit­i­cal age.

From the US to the Mid­dle East, pau­perised cit­i­zen­ries are ris­ing up to re­move the vi­o­lent gov­ern­ments rul­ing over them.

The clash be­tween the ‘re­sis­tance’ and ‘rev­o­lu­tion­ary’ move­ments will de­fine the Mid­dle East in the fu­ture.

Jor­da­ni­ans have shown that they will no longer ac­cept aus­ter­i­ty with­out ma­jor po­lit­i­cal changes and ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Rus­sia, Iran and Turkey will de­ter­mine the fu­ture of Syr­ia, as France and Britain did 100 years ago.

Sabih al-Mas­ri’s de­ten­tion in Riyadh was meant to send a clear po­lit­i­cal mes­sage to Jor­dan.

Six months into the GCC cri­sis, Qatar has ef­fec­tive­ly neu­tralised the im­pact of the siege against it.

A meet­ing of the GCC coun­tries is sched­uled for De­cem­ber and de­ci­sions will need to be made on its fu­ture.

State­ments by Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim and UAE and US of­fi­cials sig­nal a po­ten­tial res­o­lu­tion of the cri­sis.