March 5, 2021
On March 5, 2021, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet posted, on its Rocket.chat server, a new link to the outlet s account on Hoop Messenger, as well as to several other outlets active on the platform.
Cardinal Bechara Raï Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and All the East said that the supports the implementation of the Arab Peace Initiative that was formulated in the 2002 Arab League Beirut Summit, and was the basis for the recent peace agreements between Arab countries and Israel. He made these remarks in an interview that aired on Al-Hurra TV (U.S.) on March 2, 2021. Cardinal Raï said that the Maronite Patriarchate supports peace over war, “wars are vile.” However, he lamented, in Lebanon it is Hizbullah, and not the Lebanese state, that calls the shots.
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Everything Converges: Adding Chinese To MEMRI s Priority Languages
March 4, 2021 | By Yigal Carmon and Alberto M. Fernandez
Antiquarians digging in various ancient and fabled Middle East cities – Nishapur, Ctesiphon, Samarra, Homs, Raqqa – have found ancient Chinese ceramics laboriously brought along the Silk Road to their destinations. The Silk Route across Asia, from China to Europe, is over two thousand years old, and along it traveled goods and ideas, in both directions: silk from China, Buddhism and Nestorian Christianity, Roman silver, Bactrian horses from the West to the East. China traded with Rome and Byzantium and with the empires of Islam. China s weakness in the Early Modern Era and the rise of European mercantile empires (15th to 19th century) eclipsed this ancient trade route. But now it has returned with a vengeance.