The future of Israel–Palestine – Part Two
Dr Helmut Hubel discusses the Israelis’ yearning for a ‘normal life’ in safety and prosperity (Part One) and offers a...
Read moreDr Helmut Hubel is a retired Professor of International Relations at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena/Germany. He held Visiting Professorships in the USA, Finland and the Ukraine and spent many visits to Russia and Israel. His areas of specialization, documented in numerous books and articles, were the European Union, Soviet Union/Russia, Ukraine, Northern Europe, Israel and the USA. He now lives with his wife in Cheltenham and Stuttgart.
Dr Helmut Hubel discusses the Israelis’ yearning for a ‘normal life’ in safety and prosperity (Part One) and offers a...
Read moreDr Helmut Hubel discusses the Israelis’ yearning for a ‘normal life’ in safety and prosperity (Part One) and offers a...
Read moreDr Helmut Hubel explains how the West's support of Israel has betrayed the Palestinian Arabs - be it because of...
Read moreDr Helmut Hubel is inspired by Shostakovich’s ‘Requiem’ to give a requiem to some individual victims of Putin’s regime, in...
Read moreDr Helmut Hubel provides a background to the recent Gaza conflict and challenges the viability of the concept of separate...
Read moreHelmut Hubel comments on the parallels between 2 sinister revenge killings, and the Wagnerian thread linking the victims
Read moreDr Helmut Hubel lays bare the origins and aims of the Wagner Group supporting Vladimir Putin’s quest for power with...
Read moreNow that Finland has joined NATO, on 4 April 2023, Helmut updates his November 2022 article and wonders whether Ukraine...
Read moreThe chances that the indictment of Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court will lead to an actual conviction are...
Read moreDr Helmut Hubel reviews an Arte TV documentary on Vladimir Putin’s use of energy as a strategic weapon against Europe...
Read moreGerman Chancellor Scholz’s behaviour in eventually agreeing to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine has spawned a new word in...
Read moreAs Germany’s Chancellor Scholz hesitates to deliver Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Helmut Hubel asks where is ‘Germany’s Churchill’ to...
Read moreOur Russia expert calls out the 'Independent' Russia 'specialist' for defending Putin's aggression in Ukraine. Mary Dejevsky writes nonsense!
Read moreWe can only hope that Western support of Ukraine will remain strong, that they will not have to experience Finland’s...
Read moreA nation's leaders are products of its democratic safeguards or lack of them and the historical development of that nation.
Read moreHelmut gives Vladimir Putin the patronym 'Adolfovich' to reflect his similarity with Adolf Hitler, especially as an expansionist.
Read moreRussia's War Crime in Bucha is reported in Russia as 'staged by Ukrainian fascists' but how can they keep up...
Read moreThe post-war model which Germany has followed of a 'trading state' and a 'civilian power' has been shattered by Russia's...
Read moreA brilliant caricature of a famous painting of Ivan the Terrible killing his son depicts Putin the Terrible killing one...
Read morePravda is Russian for truth. Yet the newspaper, Pravda, was always a means of disseminating an official version of truth...
Read moreWith no viable options left, the West has failed to act in good time to protect Ukraine from an expansionist...
Read moreHelmut draws not so far-fetched parallels between Hitler and Putin, both trying to restore past glories with fascism & nationalist...
Read moreOlaf Scholz has just come into office but already Putin has posed him with a massive dilemma - is Ostpolitik...
Read morePutin has re-purposed Stalin's Soviet National Anthem for the Russian Federation showing that he is as ruthless as his predecessor.
Read morePutin's version of Stalinism bans 'Memorial', founded by Andrei Sakharov' to record crimes against humanity, especially those of Stalin.
Read moreFor the USA and its allies, the terrible fate of many Afghans will remain a shameful reminder of their arrogance...
Read moreA civilian airliner was forced to land in Minsk to catch a prominent Belarussian dissident, Roman Protasevich
Read moreHelmut Hubel reports on legendary conductor Sir Simon Rattle's relocation to Germany
Read moreSiemann argues that Trump had a clear goal: to stir up violence and to proclaim a state of emergency in...
Read moreRussia in the 1990s changed and people asked how much it could change. Now we have a person in charge...
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