Tales and prophesies at a boiling cauldron
«Satanovsky makes no secret of the fact that he does not believe in the possibility of Palestine ever becoming a viable independent state. What is more, he is confident — wrongly, I believe — that deep down, even the Palestinians themselves do not want such a state because they benefit from the current uncertainty and, as the author puts it, from not having to bear any responsibility for anything», writes PIR Center president. We offer a review of: Yevgeny Satanovsky. Russia and the Middle East. A Cauldron of Trouble. Moscow: Eksmo, 2012.