World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Every time I write, as I did last week, that I don’t think anti-Zionism is necessarily antisemitic, I get emails from Jewish readers that are angry, disappointed or sometimes simply baffled. “Israel is the political entity through which the Jewish people exercises its natural right of self…

Optimism regarding the likelihood of a truce and hostage exchange deal, through the ongoing talks in Cairo, is on the rise. This optimism has not been sprung by dramatic Israeli initiatives or flagrant concessions by Hamas. Rather, a deal seems more likely because the Egyptians, Qataris, and…

Last Sunday (7/4) the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz” published an investigative report by Judy Maltz, the newspaper's Jewish World correspondent, entitled "Six Months On: How October 7 and the Gaza War Transformed Jews Across the Globe." It traces how these two major events have reflected on the lives…

Twenty-one years have passed since the return to peaceful Baghdad, after a forced absence that lasted more than a decade and a half. I remember those moments well, as if they were days ago. A feeling that words cannot describe. It’s like I was reborn... I returned to Iraq a few days after April 9…

Per the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Israel’s airstrike on an Iranian consulate building in the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus killed seven military advisors. Among them was Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a prominent leader in its foreign arm, the Quds Force, who became the third to be killed by…

If a journalist digs into the recent memory of the Middle East, he fails to find beautiful or optimistic events. Those are completely absent or rare. Road signs are burdened with wars, collapses, assassinations, militias, poverty, deception and suicidal tendencies. They also bear the marks of…

Those with an easy consciousness draw inspiration from the soldier or fighter. Like him, they are a single, cohesive piece with no curves. They live in their trench and know what they are targeting: the enemy standing before them. Thus, when they think, they are either waging a battle or resuming a…

In 1988, when Ayatollah Khomeini announced that he had agreed to a ceasefire with Iraq, he likened his decision to "drinking a cup of poison" in a speech broadcast to the Iranian people. Today, Iran finds itself faced with a decision that can only be described as "drinking a cup of poison" once…

Silicon Valley, home of so many technological and workplace innovations, is rolling out another one: the unnecessary layoff. After shedding over 260,000 jobs last year, the greatest carnage since the dot-com meltdown more than two decades ago, the major tech companies show little sign of letting up…

Today, April 5th, is the "International Day of Conscience," which was officially declared as a global day of awareness in 2019, making it relatively new. The United Nations General Assembly invited all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and other international and regional…

“Will this time be different?” This is the question that haunts Tehran political circles as more body bags are flown in from Damascus. The body bags contain the mortal remains of 13 Iranian diplomatic and military officers including two senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Grad Corps…

There is a story (that is not universally accepted) of a cheeky exchange between Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Prime Minister of China, Zhou Enlai, during the Bandung Conference in 1955 in which the "Non-Aligned Movement" was founded. The latter, who was the most sensible diplomatic figure of the…