-Analysis- BEIRUT — Burhan Ghalioun, the Syrian intellectual and professor of political sociology at the Sorbonne University in Paris, has recently explored what has come to be known as the “Eastern Question” in a new light. Specifically he wants to revisit the question of how European powers reacted to the instability in the late Ottoman Empire as it relates to the events of Oct. 7 and subsequent wars in Gaza and Lebanon. He argues rightly that the roots of the current situation in our region can be traced to the “transformation of Palestine into a state for the Jews, theirs alone… and the ma…