Nabil Amr

In Israel they regard Netanyahu as the foremost orator, especially when he speaks in English before international forums. In politics and government, he is the king whose skill his opponents acknowledge before his supporters do- not only in reaching the summit, but in settling on it. Before and…

Opinion polls continue to show General Eizenkot ahead of his closest rival, Benjamin Netanyahu. What is striking about this race is that it pits a novice general seeking admission to the club of Israeli prime ministers against a veteran who has held membership many times and is fighting to avoid…

The old guard in the Palestinian arena consists not merely of individuals who have occupied and continue to hold leadership positions since its founding, it is also a formula that has governed the arena for decades without any fundamental renewal of its structure or figures. Following the radical…

Netanyahu's gifts are not to be denied, and the clearest evidence of them is that he has remained Israel's top leader longer than any of his predecessors among the founders and the historic figures. Those gifts have been concentrated on managing his own leadership within Israeli politics,…

Without recounting the facts in detail, the Palestinian situation can be described as being “caught in a vortex.” Whenever a glimmer of an escape appears, developments take place that pull the situation back into the same vortex. Through the Oslo agreements and understandings, which were sponsored…

Since President Mahmoud Abbas issued his decrees calling legislative elections for November of this year, a noisy argument has broken out among Palestinians, beginning with the question of whether the elections will actually be held- or whether the decrees are merely a maneuver to release the…

So far, Hamas has spoken in the language of justification for what it did. Some believe its account, while others reject it. This is a natural state of affairs for a political movement that went through a complex experience: governing an isolated and blockaded territory, then entering a military…

It is not precisely known how far the question of permanently disarming Hamas in Gaza has advanced. Will its weapons be surrendered in the manner Israel wants, letting Benjamin Netanyahu present the outcome as a major victory? Or will the matter be handled in a way that ends Hamas's armed role…

After the lengthy tenures of the historic leader Yasser Arafat and, later, his successor Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinians appear to have grown accustomed to the permanence of the man at the top. This is despite the personal and political differences between the two, whose common denominator remains…

President Mahmoud Abbas has issued a decree setting a date for presidential and legislative elections, reversing a course he himself had previously charted toward elections for the Palestinian National Council, an alternative widely viewed as a substitute for long-overdue national elections. …