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C'est fait ! L'Union européenne sanctionne aujourd'hui les principales organisations israéliennes coupables de soutenir la colonisation extrémiste et violente de la Cisjordanie, ainsi que leur dirigeants. Ces actes gravissimes et intolérables doivent cesser sans délais. Elle sanctionne les principaux dirigeants du Hamas, responsable du pire massacre antisémite de notre histoire depuis la Shoah au cours duquel 51 Français ont perdu la vie, mouvement terroriste qui doit être impérativement désarmé et exclu de toute participation à l'avenir de la Palestine. L'espérance que la France a fait renaître l'année dernière à New York, celle de deux Etats reconnus et respectés dans leurs droits vivant côte à côte en paix et en sécurité, nous ne laisserons personne la fragiliser.

Iran Is Waging Data War on the UAE's AI Ambitions as They Go Up in Smoke. Amazon Web Services just confirmed objects struck its UAE data centre, sparking a fire and forcing a full shutdown of one Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 region. This is not abstract infrastructure risk. This is the centrepiece of Abu Dhabi's multi-billion dollar bet to become the world's AI data hub going up in flames literally. The UAE spent years positioning itself as the safe harbour for hyperscalers and frontier AI. OpenAI announced Stargate UAE, a 1 gigawatt mega data centre in Abu Dhabi with G42, Oracle, Nvidia, Cisco and SoftBank, first phase online by 2026. Microsoft took a 1.5 billion dollar stake in G42 after ripping out Huawei gear under US pressure. Trump-era deals promised American-managed cloud services across the region, with Abu Dhabi pledging to align national security regs with Washington. The pitch was tax free, energy rich, geopolitically stable, outside any conflict zone. Iran's retaliatory strikes just obliterated that narrative. AWS's data centre hit amid the broader barrage on Dubai and Abu Dhabi airports, ports and military areas. Power cut by fire crews, hours to restore, customers rerouted. The incident was not random. Data centres are the new oil terminals. They power the trillion dollar AI economy, host sovereign cloud for Gulf SWFs and process the hyperscale compute that underpins everything from ChatGPT to regional financial markets. The collateral is already mounting. Weeks ago, an Iraqi-Emirati consortium announced WorldLink, a 700 million dollar subsea and terrestrial cable from Fujairah to Turkey via Iraq's Faw peninsula. Designed to bypass Suez congestion, serve AI hyperscalers and cut latency for east-west data flows. That cable was explicitly tied to UAE's AI hub ambitions. Now, with Iranian strikes hitting UAE infrastructure and Iraq's Erbil airport already scarred, the risk profile has changed overnight. Private financing for a five-year project running through a war zone? The insurance alone kills it. US-UAE data pacts are next. The multi-gigawatt AI campus in Abu Dhabi was never fully locked in, sources said, with persistent Washington concerns over UAE's Huawei ties and Russian sanctions evasion. Now add recurrent Iranian strikes capable of hitting data centres directly. OpenAI's first major non-US project? Oracle's regional cloud anchor? Microsoft's G42 investment? Every clause gets renegotiated with war risk premiums baked in. Billions in committed capex evaporate as hyperscalers reroute to safer jurisdictions. This is the logic of Iran's data war. Ports hurt trade. Airports hurt connectivity. Data centres hurt the future. The UAE built its post-oil economy on three pillars: logistics (Jebel Ali), aviation (Dubai International) and now digital infrastructure. Iran hit all three in 48 hours. The message is your ambition to be the world's compute layer is incompatible with hosting America's war machine.