Dr. Nassif Hitti

Gaza War and Challenges to the Needed Solution

The Gaza War - or Israel's genocidal war on Gaza - has been raging for three months now. The intensity of this war and the range of ways it could develop have brought the Palestinian question back to the forefront of pressing regional issues, and has thus had ramifications for the region and the…

The Second Round of the War on Gaza and its Horizons

The second round of the Israeli war on Gaza began after a week-long ceasefire. It continues after two months. The Israeli leadership, although it is unwilling to publicly admit this, realizes that it has fallen captive to the unattainable goals to obliterate Hamas it had set. The war rages on…

The Messages of the NATO Summit

The NATO summit held on July 11 and 12 sent many messages. The first was sent through the choice of location. Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, the first republic to declare its independence and withdraw from the Soviet Union, on March 11, 1970. The other Soviet republics born from the…

Will We See a New Regional Order?

In a previous article, we asked whether a new regional order awaited us in the Middle East after paths of normalization had begun to be paved in the region. These paths are being taken at divergent speeds, with the factors governing each normalization process and their mediation mechanisms…

Illegal Migration is Among the Primary Challenges Facing the World

Illegal migration is a global challenge that has grown in scale for a number of reasons. At the top of the list, of course, are the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic and the negative implications it has had for various parts of the world, albeit to different degrees decided by the extent to…

Security Council Reforms Under Discussion Again

The current session of the United Nations General Assembly saw a resurgence of talk about the need to reform the Security Council. This is undoubtedly due to the intensifying international challenges and dangers from the Ukrainian war which is open to the worst possible scenarios, to the various…

What Hope is There for a Nuclear Deal?

The current state of the nuclear deal negotiations (Also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) between Iran and the P5+1 could best be described as an “uneasy stalemate.” The attempts to build bridges following the US withdrawal from the agreement during Trump’s term (May 2018), after…

The Scene in Occupied Palestinian Territories on the 74th Anniversary of Nakba

The attacks and incursions by settlers protected by the occupation’s authorities on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Al Ibrahimi Mosque, settlers holding religious rituals in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, and escalating violence by the occupation forces against the Palestinian population. The deliberate…

Europe and the Ukraine War’s Challenges

After the Cold War, the feeling in Europe was that war ended would mean the end of the division that had split the continent between East and West, symbolized by the Berlin Wall, too. The victorious West, it had been assumed, would expand to reach Russia’s borders. This sentiment was, of course,…

A Middle East Order and the Requisites for Regional Stability

How does the scene in the Middle East look at the end of 2021, keeping in mind that most observers and those who follow the situation in the region agree that we have been living in a chaotic regional system for years…A system that has seen a weakening or regression of the international rules or…