Middle East/Africa

  Herland Report: Aid Dependency in Gaza: As numerous Arab nations such as Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Sudan have forged peace agreements and business deals with Israel the past year, the Palestinian Authority has been somehow left in the dust of past grievances. Understandably, Hamas seems immensely happy about the latest conflict with Israel, as the mainstream media returns to …

  Herland Report: Wealthy Palestinian leaders and the Israel conflict: As numerous Arab nations such as Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Marrocco, Sudan have forged peace agreements and business deals with Israel the past year, the Palestinian Authority has been somehow left in the dust of past conflicts. As known to everyone, the Palestinian leaders live off the Western aid industry as …

  Herland Report: Since the 2008 global financial crisis, China has steadily increased its direct lending to developing countries – often with draconian conditions attached. Debt moratoria during the pandemic, while important, will not solve this problem. The pandemic is confronting highly indebted poor countries with a fateful dilemma. As Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, lamented last April, …

Herland Report: Extreme Poverty for one Billion: The long term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are horrifying for the poor and wonderful for the super rich. As the current billionaire owners of Amazon, Microsoft, Big Tech have seen their fortunes soar during Corona, one billion individuals who are among the poorest in the world may tumble into extreme poverty, according to …

  Herland Report: As the Easter Virgil service took place in the Vatican, with only 200 masked people present in an unprecedented shutdown of the Catholic Easter celebrations in Rome, Pope Francis spoke about the horrendous conflicts in Syria, Yemen, and Libya, imploring for an end to the “clash of arms”. He called it scandalous that “armed conflicts have not ended and …

  Herland Report:  On September 11, 2001 the world was in shock as the World Trade Center buildings melted to the ground in a massive showdown of power. Nearly 3000 were killed and the United States launched its war on terror and Islamism. Since then, we have had endless wars. Country after country in the Middle East has erupted in …

  Herland Report:  Why does the Liberal West so often refuse to criticize Islamic persecution of Christians in the Middle East?  The past years, we have seen a near genocidal situation for minorities, millions of Christians leaving the Middle East. At the same time and since the 1980’s, the Wahhabi radicalization of Islam has swept through the Middle Eastern Muslim communities, …

  Herland Report: China in double digit growth while the West is in double digit Corona Recession: Recovery from Covid-19 seems to be distant in the whole world except for China. While China has a double digit growth, the West is in double digit recession. Chile and Sweden are the only two countries that are not in recession but coming …

  Herland Report: Morocco in peace treaty with Israel, joins UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, while Ramallah watches in silence. After its harsh denunciations of countries that established open ties with Israel failed to yield results, the PA is now keeping quiet on Morocco’s decision to normalize. In a sign of how much things have changed in just the past four months, …

  Herland Report: Vienna Attack: The recent shootings in Vienna and beheadings of Christians in France, in relation to Muslim terror illustrates the again the tensions in Europe.  But are we likely to see changes in Europe’s relation with Muslim countries? On 2 November, a number of gunmen went on a shooting spree in six locations throughout Austria’s capital Vienna, …