The political storm around Donald Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery should be understood in the context of the crude political spite we see during presidential election season. Democrats, along with liberal media outlets, have been up in arms over a photo op that Trump took alongside his…

If we set aside the vastly disparate geographic, political, and economic scales of the two countries, we can ask the following question: How can we explain China’s relative success at breaking the shackles of ideology, allowing it to reinvent itself and turn into an economic and political power…

Regardless of who wins the US presidential election after President Joe Biden's exit from the race, an entirely new era will begin once it ends. Despite their divergent backgrounds, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, for different reasons, are atypical candidates. Harris is far more…

The implications of the recent drone strike on Tel Aviv that the Houthi militia in Yemen claimed responsibility for go far beyond the immediate material damage it caused. Justifying this first-of-its-kind attack on Tel Aviv as the result of a human error in assessing the threat level of the Houthi…

The condolences that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates extended to Iran following the death of its president, Ebrahim Raisi have not gone unnoticed. The attendance of both countries’ foreign ministers at the funeral, following the helicopter crash that killed Raisi, reflects…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war in Gaza lacks a clear long-term political plan. That is evident from his recent suggestion that Arab countries help a Palestinian civilian government run Gaza after the war. Outside the framework of perpetuating the conflict without ending it…

Instead of seeking more blood in Gaza and giving up on his pursuit of an illusional victory by raising the number of Palestinian casualties, Khaled Meshaal, the head of the Hamas's office in the diaspora, wants to expand the scope of war and death. In a video recording, Meshaal addressed his …

We have always been faced with, at the very least, two Middle Easts. While political and social disparities in the region are longstanding, they are particularly astonishing today, and the growing chasm between the opposite sides of the binary marks a turning point. It now feels like we are living…

This question is asked with every wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. And here it is now, imposing itself on Palestinians and Arabs once again in light of the war that has been raging in Gaza since October 7, 2023, the most destructive in the history of this conflict. Humanitarian…

The chasm separating Israel and Hezbollah’s assessments regarding the future of warfare in the region is widening in an alarming manner. Hezbollah has tied the cessation of hostilities in South Lebanon to a ceasefire in Gaza, reflecting the "unity of arenas" approach that the axis of Iran and…