Nabil Amr

No Palestinians, no factions anywhere on the Palestinian spectrum, entered the American-Israeli war on Iran. While some locals and factions have expressed sympathy with Iran, these positions do not amount to strategic alignment. Rather, they are a reflection of the simple fact that the Palestinians…

Those taking part in war bear the pain during military operations, as their full attention is devoted to winning it. Once it winds down- whether due to exhaustion and fatigue, the despair of one side fully crushing the other, or a compromise settlement over demands and objectives - do combatants…

If you were to sit with a Palestinian Authority official, whether a low-ranking employee in its ministries, its soldiers and officers, its so-called top brass of officials, or members of the government... you would find absolute consensus. They are all disgruntled with the PA and critical of its…

President Donald Trump is now working from Florida after he and his senior aides left the White House for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Crises do not take days off, but they do follow their protagonists, and so the three mediators followed their American partner in Miami. Seeking to…

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…