Who is Defeated in Gaza: Israel or Hamas? By: Sam Vaknin, Brussels Morning Does Khamenei have a point? Has Israel been defeated in Gaza, or at least stymied there? Has the much vaunted offensive boggled down? Hamas has had three strategic goals in its incursion into Israel on October 7…

By: Sam Vaknin, Brussels Morning It is only a question of time before the war between Iran (via its proxies, Hamas and Hizbullah) and Israel hits the shores of Europe. Expect major terrorist attacks in cities across the continent imminently. Isolated terrorist attacks have no long-term effects on destination tourism…

Where are we, a month after the atrocities committed in south Israel by 3000 Gaza Palestinians? I am using the phrase “Gaza Palestinians” rather than the habitual Hamas because by now it has become clear that civilians and criminals who breached the fence committed most of the heinous crimes. Hamas…

Corruption Reconsidered By: Sam Vaknin, Brussels Morning Corruption has become more ostentatious in the European Union with some high visibility scandals, arrests, and resignations. Candidate countries are required to stamp out venality as one of the pillars and goals of their accession process. But is corruption, this touchstone of good…

Europe Must Cap Executive Pay or Face Labor Unrest By: Sam Vaknin, Brussels Morning Before it is too late, Europe should reign in executive pay and cap it. Otherwise, it is headed towards a period of massive strikes and a decline in the profitability of its industries. In terms of…

Next Financial Crisis: Private Equity By: Sam Vaknin, Brussels Morning What have we learned from the last banking and financial crisis a mere 15 years ago? Nothing it would seem. …

By: Sam Vaknin, Brussels Morning May on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict now say that only solution to the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis that has been going on since 1882 is ethnic cleansing by one of the peoples involved perpetrated against the other. Both parties maintain…

Berlin Process: Gaslighting the Western Balkans By: Sam Vaknin, Brussels Morning In Tirana, another summit of the Berlin Process between the EU and the Western Balkan polities has ended in grandiloquent and largely empty promises. The impoverished, hopelessly corrupt, and badly governed countries of the region — Albania, Kosovo, North…

Israel: A Paper Tiger By: Sam Vaknin, Brussels Morning In the ocean of analyses of the current iteration of the Jewish-Palestinian conflict, harking back to 1882, we have been missing three crucial facts: 1. Israel’s army and intelligence community have been rendered paper tigers by years of budget cuts and…