Nabil Amr

Nabil Amr
Palestinian writer and politician

Abbas and Fatah…in Arafat’s Absence

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…

Without a State Every Palestinian Is a Refugee

"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…

Syria… Between the Flames of Allies and Opponents

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…

The Ceasefire… the Conditions for It to Hold

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…

The Global Alliance for a Two-State Solution and the Establishment of a Palestinian State

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…

Gaza, The Target and Hostage

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…

The Iran Front is Being Tamed Preemptively

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…

August 15…The Potential and What Follows

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…

Haniyeh's Assassination: The Time and Place

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, Hamas, and The Absurdity of Their Conflict

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…