Nabil Amr

In the early days of Hamas’s coup against the legitimate Palestinian authorities, the late King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz watched a clip of Palestinian youths clashing with the Islamist movement in Gaza. The clip was an omen of the dangerous turn that the intra-Palestinian conflict had been taking…

The question of annexation has remained on the political agenda in Israel since the 1967 occupation. However, only Jerusalem and the Golan Heights were ever officially annexed. Jerusalem has always been open to final-status negotiations. Various proposals regarding its status have been made; like…

Before the war on Gaza broke out and expanded to several other countries in the region, the world had been dreaming of a “New Middle East,” that is, of turning the region into an oasis of stability, sparing its people the scourge of perpetual conflict, and relieving the world of constant…

The Palestinians, through their legitimate representatives, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian National Authority, have decided to disarm. In full cooperation with the legitimate Lebanese authorities, they are seeking to hand the Palestinian factions’ arms in the camps…

Since Israel, and us with it, began to be plagued by the meteoric rise of Benjamin Netanyahu, there has been a consensus around his status as the king of Israel. This is a title that even the state’s founders and its historic leaders were never given. Netanyahu has broken every record in terms…

President Mahmoud Abbas surprised the Palestinian people with his announcement of what he called reform measures taken in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Fatah movement. In the PLO, he promised to appoint a deputy president. In Fatah- and this is what really matters- he…

"President Trump suggested that Jordan and Egypt should receive a large number of Gazans, either temporarily or permanently." From experience, when a tragic event in the lives of Palestinians is labeled as "temporary,” it often becomes permanent. Since the first Palestinian refugee camp was…

In the game of power that shapes crises and wars, the former Syrian regime relied on Russia and Iran to prevent its collapse at the hands of the opposition that had swept the country, and it was eventually left with nothing but pockets under siege that were always bound to collapse. Russia, with…

Over the course of this conflict, one of our era’s longest, wars were temporarily or permanently stopped through ceasefire agreements and arrangements. They were often concluded through foreign intervention crowned by a Security Council resolution. The most recent ceasefire agreement was concluded…

A year after the war Israel launched on the Gaza Strip- a genocidal war of ethnic cleansing, as attested to by the International Court of Justice- a Saudi initiative has given rise to the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution with the aim of establishing a Palestinian…