Eyad Abu Shakra

Last week, Vasily Nebenzya, the Russian representative to the United Nations, had the opportunity to deliver a statement that gave him the moral high ground. He sharply criticized Washington's opposition to a permanent ceasefire in the war to displace the residents of the Gaza Strip. …

I remember that I have taken a particular interest in recent years in the question of the extent to which governments and parties need a spokesperson. Over time, with the expansion of the debate and the accumulation of practices, many in the Arab world have begun to seriously pose a more radical…

Although those who do not like to face facts had been optimistic about a miracle preventing the resumption of violence in a post-miracle era, the collapse of the temporary truce in Gaza was predictable. Indeed, it had been patently obvious from the beginning that both sides of the unbalanced…

These are four days of respite from the killing machine. However, between the optimism regarding an extension of this temporary pause and the pessimism in anticipation of a more cruel and more horrific round of bloodshed, negotiators are seeking to make progress and pretenders are making pretenses…

It has been interesting to watch the latest round of score-settling and silencing around the world against the backdrop of the Gaza war 40 days later. Today, various actors are becoming more stringent in their repression of objections to the ongoing genocidal displacement in the Gaza Strip,…

It has been around a month and a half since the October 7 operation in the Gaza Envelope; skepticism is increasing and the risks are accumulating. Setting to one side the bravado shown by Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who have talked about changing maps and claimed…

After over 20 days since the “2023 Gaza War” erupted, I can confidently assert that the balance on the battlefield in this asymmetric conflict seems to favor the Israeli forces. Indeed, we have the materialization of events and developments that many, including myself, had anticipated. Among…

It seems that we do indeed live in a world that despises the sensible and is enchanted by populist showmen. We understand the fact that the truth is the first victim of war, and any doubts that may have remained were dispelled by the heart-wrenching “Gaza war” that began two weeks ago. As…

I cannot exactly tell which of leaderships of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad or Hamas ordered the launch of the latest "Gaza War". But frankly, given the enormity of what we have seen and what we may still see, such a question becomes insignificant. What happened has happened; and Benjamin…