Новости за 23.06.2016

Kim Ghattas, Foreign Policy
The contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders has exposed faultlines between Democrats on Israel and Palestine.

Adam Garfinkle & Walter Mead, TAI
In secret negotiations, Abbas told the Israeli opposition leader he would be willing to give up the “right of return.”

Bronwyn Bruton, New York Times
Eritrea and Ethiopia have been locked in a dangerous stalemate for over a decade, after Ethiopia refused to recognize a 2002 arbitration decision settling the border over which they fought a devastating war from 1998 to 2000. But Washington, along with other major Western governments, has allowed the Ethiopian government to flout the ruling: Since at least the mid-1990s, U.S. policy toward the region has been driven by an almost single-minded preoccupation with counterterrorism... Читать дальше...

John Allen Gay, The National Interest
Iran's foreign-policy establishment is in chaos. The last week has seen a catena of maneuvers by the system's key players. Rumors, reassignments and threats have been the order of the day. Yet determining how America should respond won't be easy; indeed, it requires a fundamental vision of the U.S. approach to Iran.

Konrad Yakabuski, Globe and Mail
Nicolas Maduro, who is desperately clinging to the Bolivarian Revolution, appears set to dig in until the bitter end.

Therese Raphael, Bloomberg View
British law bans a lot of election-day chatter. That may sound odd to Americans, but the UK is not alone.

John Harris, The Guardian
Leave voters aren't lemmings jumping off a cliff, and the left urgently needs to understand their choices

Philip Stephens, Financial Times
Many people in Britain are fed up with Brussels for entirely honourable reasons unconnected to pinched nationalism. To my mind they are mistaken in thinking that Britain would be better off on its own, but there was a debate to be had. It is just that it never happened.

Stephen Bush, New Statesman
The referendum has shown that there is another chasm in British politics, beyond left and right, beyond social conservatism v liberalism, and beyond arguments about the size of the state. The new culture war is about class, and income, and education, but also about culture, race, nationalism and optimism about the future (or lack of it). This divide explains why Ukip's message has been seductive to former Labour voters and to Tories, and why Boris Johnson, an Old Etonian... Читать дальше...

Kevin Lees, Suffragio
Polls are now open across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, where voters are deciding whether to either remain a member of the European Union or to leave the European Union. It's home to the largest city in the European Union (London) and, with 64.9 million people, it's the third-most populous state in the European Union, after Germany and France.

Guillame Beaulande, Le Monde Diplomatique
Central America's anti-communist regimes used to be closely allied with Taiwan, but growing trade with China has broken that link.Â

Peter Dominiczak, Telegraph
A Brexit will be a â??turning point in the story of our countryâ?? and a '??triumph for democracy', Boris Johnson says as he makes a final appeal to voters to back Leave.

Tim Parks, Guardian
I have lived in Italy for 35 years as a UK citizen but the EU referendum is forcing me to clarify my identity – along with a million other Britons in mainland Europe.

Michael Mazarr, TNI
There's room for Moscow in the global order.

James Bartholomew, Spectator
In Notting Hill Gate, in west London, the division was obvious.Â

Economist
A Balkan problem child is unable to stop squabbling, even on the football pitch.

Gabriel Hetland, The Nation
Caracas—According to The New York Times, Venezuela is “a country that is in a state of total collapse,” with shuttered government offices, widespread hunger, and failing hospitals that resemble “hell on earth."

John Springford & Simon Tilford, Prospect
What would really happen if Britain left the European Union? Â

Florian Eder, Politico EU
Brussels insists there's no Plan B — but officials have got a script for the biggest setback in the history of the EU.

Christoph Scheuermann, Der Spiegel
Britain's Tories were once a pro-European party. They only shifted course in the later stages of Margaret Thatcher's era as prime minister. The Iron Lady's official biographer explains how erstwhile Europhiles became Euroskeptics.

Dana Hull & Joe Deaux, Bloomberg
“The world is going to need a lot more lithium ion batteries.”