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Israel backs away from West Bank annexation plan after UAE warning – WaPo
West Jerusalem was taken by “surprise” by the admonition, the Washington Post has reported
Press / Mamoun Wazwaz
A public warning from the United Arab Emirates prompted the Israeli government to drop a planned discussion on annexing the West Bank, the Washington Post has reported. A senior UAE diplomat reportedly told Israeli media earlier this week that such a move would be a “red line” that would block Israel’s path to regional integration.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to discuss the issue at a major government meeting on Friday, according to local media. On Wednesday, UAE special envoy Lana Nusseibeh told the Times of Israel that annexation would “foreclose the idea of regional integration.”
“For every Arab capital you talk to, the idea of regional integration is still a possibility, but annexation to satisfy some of the radical extremist elements in Israel is going to take that off the table,” she stated.
The UAE was the first Arab nation to normalize relations with Israel in over a quarter century under the Abraham Accords brokered by President Donald Trump during his first term in office.
Israeli ministers call on Netanyahu to annex West Bank
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The public warning from Abu Dhabi “came as a surprise,” an Israeli official told the Post, calling the situation “very unusual.”
On Thursday, the issue of annexation was removed from the Israeli ministerial meeting agenda, according to the newspaper.
Washington has not taken a stance on the issue so far. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described potential annexation as “not a final thing” earlier this week, adding that he was “not going to opine on that.”
The West Bank returned to the spotlight earlier this year after a group of Israeli ministers urged that the territory be formally annexed. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich claimed control could be asserted at any moment.
Israel seized the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and has been actively building settlements there – which is widely regarded as illegal by the international community. It was close to annexation in 2020 but dropped the idea in exchange for normalizing relations with the UAE and Bahrain.
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HomeWorld News
Israel backs away from West Bank annexation plan after UAE warning – WaPo
West Jerusalem was taken by “surprise” by the admonition, the Washington Post has reported
Press / Mamoun Wazwaz
A public warning from the United Arab Emirates prompted the Israeli government to drop a planned discussion on annexing the West Bank, the Washington Post has reported. A senior UAE diplomat reportedly told Israeli media earlier this week that such a move would be a “red line” that would block Israel’s path to regional integration.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to discuss the issue at a major government meeting on Friday, according to local media. On Wednesday, UAE special envoy Lana Nusseibeh told the Times of Israel that annexation would “foreclose the idea of regional integration.”
“For every Arab capital you talk to, the idea of regional integration is still a possibility, but annexation to satisfy some of the radical extremist elements in Israel is going to take that off the table,” she stated.
The UAE was the first Arab nation to normalize relations with Israel in over a quarter century under the Abraham Accords brokered by President Donald Trump during his first term in office.
Israeli ministers call on Netanyahu to annex West Bank
Read more Israeli ministers call on Netanyahu to annex West Bank
The public warning from Abu Dhabi “came as a surprise,” an Israeli official told the Post, calling the situation “very unusual.”
On Thursday, the issue of annexation was removed from the Israeli ministerial meeting agenda, according to the newspaper.
Washington has not taken a stance on the issue so far. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described potential annexation as “not a final thing” earlier this week, adding that he was “not going to opine on that.”
The West Bank returned to the spotlight earlier this year after a group of Israeli ministers urged that the territory be formally annexed. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich claimed control could be asserted at any moment.
Israel seized the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and has been actively building settlements there – which is widely regarded as illegal by the international community. It was close to annexation in 2020 but dropped the idea in exchange for normalizing relations with the UAE and Bahrain.
https://www.rt.com/news/624223-israel-w ... ation-uae/
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Saudi Arabia, nuclear-armed Pakistan sign mutual defence pact
Maha El Dahan and Saeed Shah
Updated Thu, September 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM CDT·
DUBAI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan signed a mutual defence pact late on Wednesday, significantly strengthening a decades-old security partnership a week after Israel's strikes on Qatar upended the diplomatic calculus in the region.
The enhanced defence ties come as Gulf Arab states grow increasingly wary about the reliability of the United States as a security guarantor.
Asked whether Pakistan would now be obliged to provide Saudi Arabia with a nuclear umbrella, a senior Saudi official told Reuters: "This is a comprehensive defensive agreement that encompasses all military means."
Pakistan is the only nuclear-armed, Muslim-majority nation, and also fields the Islamic world's largest army, which it has regularly said is focused on facing down neighbouring foe India.
The agreement was the culmination of years of discussions, the Saudi official said when asked about the timing of the deal. "This is not a response to specific countries or specific events but an institutionalisation of long-standing and deep cooperation between our two countries," the official added.
Israel's attempt on September 9 to kill the political leaders of Hamas with airstrikes on Doha, while they were discussing a proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza that Qatar is helping to mediate, infuriated Arab countries.
Before the Gaza war, Gulf monarchies - U.S. allies - had sought to stabilise ties with both Iran and Israel to resolve longstanding security concerns. Over the past year, Qatar has been subjected to direct hits twice, once by Iran and once by Israel.
Israel is widely understood to possess a sizeable nuclear arsenal but maintains a policy of nuclear ambiguity, neither confirming nor denying possessing such weapons.
Pakistan had said its nuclear weapons are only aimed, as a deterrent, against India, and its missiles are designed with a range to hit anywhere to its east in India.
NUCLEAR UMBRELLA
Pakistani state television showed Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's de facto ruler, embracing after signing the agreement. Also there was Pakistan's army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, regarded as the country's most powerful person.
"The agreement states that any aggression against either country shall be considered an aggression against both," a statement from the Pakistani prime minister's office said.
Pakistan's decades-old alliance with Saudi Arabia - the site of Islam's holiest sites - is rooted in shared faith, strategic interests and economic interdependence.
Pakistan has long had soldiers deployed in Saudi Arabia, currently estimated at between 1,500 and 2,000 troops, providing operational, technical and training help to the Saudi military. That includes assistance to the Saudi air and land forces.
Saudi Arabia has loaned Pakistan $3 billion, a deal extended in December, to shore up its foreign exchange reserves.
The Saudi deal comes months after Pakistan fought a brief military conflict with India in May.
India's ministry of external affairs spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswal said in a post on X on Thursday that India was aware of the development, and that it would study its implications for New Delhi's security and for regional stability.
The senior Saudi official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, acknowledged the need to balance relations with Pakistan and India, also a nuclear power.
"Our relationship with India is more robust than it has ever been. We will continue to grow this relationship and seek to contribute to regional peace whichever way we can."
Pakistan and India fought three major wars since the two countries were carved out of British colonial India in 1947.
After they both acquired nuclear weapons in the late 1990s, their conflicts have been more limited in scale because of the danger of nuclear assets coming into play.
(Reporting by Saeed Shah in Islamabad and Maha El Dahan in Dubai; additional reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai; Writing by Yousef Saba and Ariba Shahid; Editing by Daniel Wallis, Christian Schmollinger and Andrew Heavens)
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Saudi Arabia, nuclear-armed Pakistan sign mutual defence pact
Maha El Dahan and Saeed Shah
Updated Thu, September 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM CDT·
DUBAI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan signed a mutual defence pact late on Wednesday, significantly strengthening a decades-old security partnership a week after Israel's strikes on Qatar upended the diplomatic calculus in the region.
The enhanced defence ties come as Gulf Arab states grow increasingly wary about the reliability of the United States as a security guarantor.
Asked whether Pakistan would now be obliged to provide Saudi Arabia with a nuclear umbrella, a senior Saudi official told Reuters: "This is a comprehensive defensive agreement that encompasses all military means."
Pakistan is the only nuclear-armed, Muslim-majority nation, and also fields the Islamic world's largest army, which it has regularly said is focused on facing down neighbouring foe India.
The agreement was the culmination of years of discussions, the Saudi official said when asked about the timing of the deal. "This is not a response to specific countries or specific events but an institutionalisation of long-standing and deep cooperation between our two countries," the official added.
Israel's attempt on September 9 to kill the political leaders of Hamas with airstrikes on Doha, while they were discussing a proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza that Qatar is helping to mediate, infuriated Arab countries.
Before the Gaza war, Gulf monarchies - U.S. allies - had sought to stabilise ties with both Iran and Israel to resolve longstanding security concerns. Over the past year, Qatar has been subjected to direct hits twice, once by Iran and once by Israel.
Israel is widely understood to possess a sizeable nuclear arsenal but maintains a policy of nuclear ambiguity, neither confirming nor denying possessing such weapons.
Pakistan had said its nuclear weapons are only aimed, as a deterrent, against India, and its missiles are designed with a range to hit anywhere to its east in India.
NUCLEAR UMBRELLA
Pakistani state television showed Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's de facto ruler, embracing after signing the agreement. Also there was Pakistan's army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, regarded as the country's most powerful person.
"The agreement states that any aggression against either country shall be considered an aggression against both," a statement from the Pakistani prime minister's office said.
Pakistan's decades-old alliance with Saudi Arabia - the site of Islam's holiest sites - is rooted in shared faith, strategic interests and economic interdependence.
Pakistan has long had soldiers deployed in Saudi Arabia, currently estimated at between 1,500 and 2,000 troops, providing operational, technical and training help to the Saudi military. That includes assistance to the Saudi air and land forces.
Saudi Arabia has loaned Pakistan $3 billion, a deal extended in December, to shore up its foreign exchange reserves.
The Saudi deal comes months after Pakistan fought a brief military conflict with India in May.
India's ministry of external affairs spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswal said in a post on X on Thursday that India was aware of the development, and that it would study its implications for New Delhi's security and for regional stability.
The senior Saudi official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, acknowledged the need to balance relations with Pakistan and India, also a nuclear power.
"Our relationship with India is more robust than it has ever been. We will continue to grow this relationship and seek to contribute to regional peace whichever way we can."
Pakistan and India fought three major wars since the two countries were carved out of British colonial India in 1947.
After they both acquired nuclear weapons in the late 1990s, their conflicts have been more limited in scale because of the danger of nuclear assets coming into play.
(Reporting by Saeed Shah in Islamabad and Maha El Dahan in Dubai; additional reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai; Writing by Yousef Saba and Ariba Shahid; Editing by Daniel Wallis, Christian Schmollinger and Andrew Heavens)
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For Arab Nations With Ties to Israel, Attacks on Qatar and Gaza City Raise Anxiety
The Middle Eastern states closest to Israel see the attack on Hamas officials in Qatar and the invasion of Gaza City as warning signs of potential threats to their own security.
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, on a screen at an Arab-Islamic summit in Doha, the country’s capital, convened after an Israeli strike in the city on Sept. 9.Credit...Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
By Erika Solomon
Reporting from Cairo
Sept. 22, 2025
For nearly two years, the Arab states that maintain uneasy relations with Israel have managed the war in Gaza as a political crisis, keeping up contacts despite their simmering frustrations.
The Israeli attacks on Qatar and Gaza City, within one week, now have some of those states wondering whether their own security may also be at risk.
Across the Middle East and beyond, Israel drew harsh condemnation for its Sept. 9 strike on Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital, Doha. The Gulf nation of Qatar is a firm U.S. ally that has played a leading role in trying to mediate a peace agreement to end the Gaza war.
“For Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, it would be foolish not to be concerned that there could be attacks on their country,” said H.A. Hellyer, a Middle East security expert at the Royal United Services Institute in London and at the Center for American Progress in Washington.
The attack in Qatar was followed by a ground invasion last week of densely populated Gaza City, which sent hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing to southern Gaza.
Israel has said it attacked Qatar as part of its policy of allowing no safe haven to Hamas, after its militants led the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that set off the Gaza war. It said it was pursuing the Gaza City offensive to root out Hamas in one of its last strongholds.
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A child runs up a sandy dune near a cluster of tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza.
Displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area of Gaza on Sunday.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York Times
Some of the angriest responses to these actions have come from Egypt, the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. Like Qatar, Egypt has also acted as a mediator in Gaza cease-fire negotiations.
The attack on Doha raised questions of whether Egypt, too, could be vulnerable to Israeli strikes — and whether any country in the region is truly off limits, analysts said.
At an emergency regional summit in Doha last week, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt called Israel an “enemy.” Diaa Rashwan, the leader of Egypt’s state media agency, said that was the first time he could recall an Egyptian president using that word since the peace process with Israel began in the late 1970s.
The choice, he said, was intentional.
“Our national security is under threat, and only an enemy can threaten national security,” Mr. Rashwan told the Egyptian television program Studio Extra.
Last week, as Israeli troops advanced on Gaza City with hundreds of Palestinians still sheltering there, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry warned of “catastrophic dangers.” It called the operation a “new phase of chaos as a result of Israeli recklessness and excessive arrogance.”
Like much of the Arab world, Egyptians were already seething over the war, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.
Egypt shares a border with southern Gaza in the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian officials fear that the latest escalation of the war, which leaves people almost nowhere to flee to, could create pressure on their border by Palestinians desperate to escape.
Such a mass flight of people has long been feared by Egyptian officials, for a number of reasons. For one, they do not want to be accused of helping Israel to displace Palestinians.
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Palestinian children and adults in Gaza hold metal saucepans and plastic containers near big pots of food.
Palestinians waited for food aid in Khan Younis on Sunday.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York Times
Domestic security concerns are just as critical. If Hamas militants managed to cross the border with refugees, it could provoke an Israeli attack on Egyptian soil. (Egypt has accepted at least 100,000 medical evacuees and others who fled Gaza during the war. But it is already struggling economically and fears the added burden of taking in large numbers of additional refugees.)
And Israeli news media reported that Israel raised concerns to Washington about an Egyptian buildup of military forces in the Sinai Peninsula. The Egyptian government has neither confirmed nor denied such a buildup, and The New York Times could not independently verify it.
But Yehia el-Kadwani, a lawmaker on the Egyptian Parliament’s defense and national security committee, told The Times that such measures, if taken, would be a warning.
Displacing Palestinians “is a red line,” he said. “Egypt will take a stance if this occurs.”
Jordan, another neighboring Arab country that has had a longstanding peace treaty with Israel, is also watching Israel’s actions nervously. It shares a border with the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where roughly three million Palestinians live.
As more countries recognize a Palestinian state in response to the Gaza war, Israel has intensified its threats to annex large parts of the West Bank.
Jordan is concerned that Israel could then try to push Palestinians across its border with the West Bank, according to Mr. Hellyer, the Middle East security expert.
Gulf nations, too, are weighing their options in light of the latest Israeli attacks.
For decades, they saw their principal rival in the Middle East as Iran and had, in recent years, found common cause with Israel in that shared enemy. In 2020, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, two Gulf nations, were among several Arab countries that normalized relations with Israel.
But the mood is rapidly changing, said Mr. Hellyer.
“Now, they see Israel as a bigger threat to Gulf and regional security,” he said.
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A building that has been heavily damaged in one portion.
A damaged building in Qatar after the Israeli attack on Hamas in the capital.Credit...Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
Qatar never established diplomatic relations with Israel but maintained cordial ties, which included visits by Israeli officials during the Gaza cease-fire negotiations. Those ties were shattered with the attack on Doha.
Some Gulf countries are making moves that go beyond condemnations.
On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia announced a new “strategic defense pact” with Pakistan — a nuclear-armed country — declaring that an attack on one country was an attack on both.
Analysts said the agreement reflected, in part, a growing sense of frustration with the United States for not doing more to protect the Gulf.
In an article published on his website last week, Andreas Krieg, a Middle East expert at King’s College London, said the whole region was now at risk of plunging into the type of wider conflict not seen since the era of Arab-Israeli wars from 1948 to 1973.
In the decades since, Israel’s normalization of ties with a number of Arab countries has narrowed the conflict into an Israeli-Palestinian fight. With every Israeli escalation now, he said, the risk of drawing Arab countries into a wider conflict grows.
“Arab publics, already inflamed by Gaza, now see Israel as a concrete threat to Arabs collectively,” he wrote.
Rania Khaled contributed reporting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/worl ... nians.html
The Middle Eastern states closest to Israel see the attack on Hamas officials in Qatar and the invasion of Gaza City as warning signs of potential threats to their own security.
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, on a screen at an Arab-Islamic summit in Doha, the country’s capital, convened after an Israeli strike in the city on Sept. 9.Credit...Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
By Erika Solomon
Reporting from Cairo
Sept. 22, 2025
For nearly two years, the Arab states that maintain uneasy relations with Israel have managed the war in Gaza as a political crisis, keeping up contacts despite their simmering frustrations.
The Israeli attacks on Qatar and Gaza City, within one week, now have some of those states wondering whether their own security may also be at risk.
Across the Middle East and beyond, Israel drew harsh condemnation for its Sept. 9 strike on Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital, Doha. The Gulf nation of Qatar is a firm U.S. ally that has played a leading role in trying to mediate a peace agreement to end the Gaza war.
“For Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, it would be foolish not to be concerned that there could be attacks on their country,” said H.A. Hellyer, a Middle East security expert at the Royal United Services Institute in London and at the Center for American Progress in Washington.
The attack in Qatar was followed by a ground invasion last week of densely populated Gaza City, which sent hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing to southern Gaza.
Israel has said it attacked Qatar as part of its policy of allowing no safe haven to Hamas, after its militants led the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that set off the Gaza war. It said it was pursuing the Gaza City offensive to root out Hamas in one of its last strongholds.
Image
A child runs up a sandy dune near a cluster of tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza.
Displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area of Gaza on Sunday.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York Times
Some of the angriest responses to these actions have come from Egypt, the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. Like Qatar, Egypt has also acted as a mediator in Gaza cease-fire negotiations.
The attack on Doha raised questions of whether Egypt, too, could be vulnerable to Israeli strikes — and whether any country in the region is truly off limits, analysts said.
At an emergency regional summit in Doha last week, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt called Israel an “enemy.” Diaa Rashwan, the leader of Egypt’s state media agency, said that was the first time he could recall an Egyptian president using that word since the peace process with Israel began in the late 1970s.
The choice, he said, was intentional.
“Our national security is under threat, and only an enemy can threaten national security,” Mr. Rashwan told the Egyptian television program Studio Extra.
Last week, as Israeli troops advanced on Gaza City with hundreds of Palestinians still sheltering there, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry warned of “catastrophic dangers.” It called the operation a “new phase of chaos as a result of Israeli recklessness and excessive arrogance.”
Like much of the Arab world, Egyptians were already seething over the war, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.
Egypt shares a border with southern Gaza in the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian officials fear that the latest escalation of the war, which leaves people almost nowhere to flee to, could create pressure on their border by Palestinians desperate to escape.
Such a mass flight of people has long been feared by Egyptian officials, for a number of reasons. For one, they do not want to be accused of helping Israel to displace Palestinians.
Image
Palestinian children and adults in Gaza hold metal saucepans and plastic containers near big pots of food.
Palestinians waited for food aid in Khan Younis on Sunday.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York Times
Domestic security concerns are just as critical. If Hamas militants managed to cross the border with refugees, it could provoke an Israeli attack on Egyptian soil. (Egypt has accepted at least 100,000 medical evacuees and others who fled Gaza during the war. But it is already struggling economically and fears the added burden of taking in large numbers of additional refugees.)
And Israeli news media reported that Israel raised concerns to Washington about an Egyptian buildup of military forces in the Sinai Peninsula. The Egyptian government has neither confirmed nor denied such a buildup, and The New York Times could not independently verify it.
But Yehia el-Kadwani, a lawmaker on the Egyptian Parliament’s defense and national security committee, told The Times that such measures, if taken, would be a warning.
Displacing Palestinians “is a red line,” he said. “Egypt will take a stance if this occurs.”
Jordan, another neighboring Arab country that has had a longstanding peace treaty with Israel, is also watching Israel’s actions nervously. It shares a border with the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where roughly three million Palestinians live.
As more countries recognize a Palestinian state in response to the Gaza war, Israel has intensified its threats to annex large parts of the West Bank.
Jordan is concerned that Israel could then try to push Palestinians across its border with the West Bank, according to Mr. Hellyer, the Middle East security expert.
Gulf nations, too, are weighing their options in light of the latest Israeli attacks.
For decades, they saw their principal rival in the Middle East as Iran and had, in recent years, found common cause with Israel in that shared enemy. In 2020, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, two Gulf nations, were among several Arab countries that normalized relations with Israel.
But the mood is rapidly changing, said Mr. Hellyer.
“Now, they see Israel as a bigger threat to Gulf and regional security,” he said.
Image
A building that has been heavily damaged in one portion.
A damaged building in Qatar after the Israeli attack on Hamas in the capital.Credit...Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
Qatar never established diplomatic relations with Israel but maintained cordial ties, which included visits by Israeli officials during the Gaza cease-fire negotiations. Those ties were shattered with the attack on Doha.
Some Gulf countries are making moves that go beyond condemnations.
On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia announced a new “strategic defense pact” with Pakistan — a nuclear-armed country — declaring that an attack on one country was an attack on both.
Analysts said the agreement reflected, in part, a growing sense of frustration with the United States for not doing more to protect the Gulf.
In an article published on his website last week, Andreas Krieg, a Middle East expert at King’s College London, said the whole region was now at risk of plunging into the type of wider conflict not seen since the era of Arab-Israeli wars from 1948 to 1973.
In the decades since, Israel’s normalization of ties with a number of Arab countries has narrowed the conflict into an Israeli-Palestinian fight. With every Israeli escalation now, he said, the risk of drawing Arab countries into a wider conflict grows.
“Arab publics, already inflamed by Gaza, now see Israel as a concrete threat to Arabs collectively,” he wrote.
Rania Khaled contributed reporting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/worl ... nians.html