nursy1
Re ” Theassauras. The Palestinians have elected moderate parties in the past there have been talks, talks about talks, peace processes etc etc going back as long as I can remember. ( about half a century).”
Well whenever questioned about his ‘support’ for any anti West or revolutionary cause, Mr Corbyn (rather defensively) says that all he wants to encourage, is the talking, as he has just said about both sides in Venezuela
Re ” Israel will always do exactly as it wants with the backing of the US. It's an unequal situation and fuels much of the tension in the Middle East.”
The U.S. used to be the whipping boy in the Middle East as probably correctly, they were both politically and economically worried about the regimes there ensuring the continuity of oil flowing out of the Gulf wasn’t broken, causing the recessions they used to when interrupted and the Western economies (then more reliant on heavy manufacturing) – saw high priced oil raising costs/inflation.
But as mentioned above, nowadays with a U.S. now a net exporter of oil and gas, that power balance (read interference) over Middle East matters has shifted to Russia and Iran with economies now mainly reliant on the (higher) prices of oil and gas.
And look who is now turning up in Venezuela to both support yet another dodgy regime and increase further their control of carbon energy reserves, via an alliance of dodgy regimes.
“Vladimir's Venezuela; Leveraging loans to Caracas, Moscow snaps up oil assets”
“Venezuela’s unravelling socialist government is increasingly turning to ally Russia for the cash and credit it needs to survive – and offering prized state-owned oil assets in return, sources familiar with the negotiations told Reuters.”
“As Caracas struggles to contain an economic meltdown and violent street protests, Moscow is using its position as Venezuela’s lender of last resort to gain more control over the OPEC nation’s crude reserves, the largest in the world.”