Nabil Amr

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. …

Any head of government in Israel seeks a visit to Washington, especially during an election campaign. The imminent visit is exactly what Netanyahu needs in his battle for political survival, which is different this time from those before it. His coalition's standing has slumped, as the opinion…

The first sparks of the Middle East war (which has not yet laid down its burdens) came from Gaza, through Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” on October 7, 2023, and Israel’s response to it. Over almost three years, this war continued and expanded, eventually peaking with the United States and Israel’s two…

The main fighting between the United States and Iran has come to a halt. In line with the logic of negotiations, the occasional controlled skirmish continued to occur, reflecting both sides' shared determination to avoid a return to war, each for its own reasons. The signing ceremony, conducted…