Nabil Amr

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…

Following the earthquake of Oct. 7, 2023, and the intense shockwaves it generated within Israel and across all levels there, the official and military leadership responded with extreme measures, hastily launching a ground invasion into the Gaza Strip—a territory heavily armed, populated with…

As the momentum of the war on two fronts shifts from Gaza to Lebanon, the world is keeping a close eye on development on the Iranian front. The question asked most frequently in this regard: how will Israel retaliate to Iran’s recent missile barrage, to which the painful Binyamina incident has been…

Thursday, August 15, will be one of the important days for the Middle East “if things go according to plan.” The political, diplomatic, and military preparations for it are stronger than anything we have ever seen in a Middle Eastern war. The two major wars- June 1967 and October 1973, and here I…

Ismail Haniyeh was a diligent student of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. If we were to split Palestinian political Islamists into moderate and hardline camps, Ismail Haniyeh would be classified as a moderate. Even his opponents see him as part of the solution, be it for intra-Palestinian…

Fatah, which established the Palestinian revolution, and then led it for decades, would not have maintained its leadership during the most critical phase in the history of the Palestinian people if it had not transformed the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Indeed, it was Fatah that…

Every country that was plagued by foreign occupation gained its independence through national struggle that sprung from its own land and nation and made the occupier’s continued presence unsustainable as the losses came to outweigh the gains. This was and remains a law governing the relationship…

The persistence of the Gaza war for many months was a major surprise that the world had not anticipated and accounted for, and there are no indications of when it will end. Even the two parties directly involved, Israel and Hamas, had not prepared for anything more than another cycle of the…