World News Insights: Opinion Articles

“He is dangerously close to getting re-elected!” This is how, in a recent issue, the London weekly the Economist presented Donald Trump’s chances of returning to the White House next year. This was based on a few polls indicating that, if nominated, Trump would have a chance of winning next…

As a temporary ceasefire agreement has been reached in recent hours, and despite any doubts about its viability, it is important to begin thinking about how to open a political horizon that will enable work towards a permanent settlement of the conflict, which will spare the region the burden of…

When one is struck by an unexpected calamity of a magnitude beyond his imagination, his first reaction is to curse everything around him. The world appears to be an unsafe place, humans become dangerous beings, ideas seem to be mere lies, and reason is rendered surplus to requirements. He has…

This is the scene in the region: Hamas went on venture and then went into hiding as the Israeli machine brutally attacked the defenseless in Gaza. Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia, are flying officials across the globe to help the Palestinians. Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood is launching…

The question of the relationship between ethics and politics, or political action is among the deepest controversies about governance and the most difficult dilemmas rulers must confront. The debate and search for an answer began as soon as humanity engaged in politics, as this question about the…

The Gaza war has put the Middle East and the world in front of an urgent and undeniable reality: the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state. This matter, whether it happens or not, will lead to results that can transcend regional borders and redraw the entire global political landscape…

It has been interesting to watch the latest round of score-settling and silencing around the world against the backdrop of the Gaza war 40 days later. Today, various actors are becoming more stringent in their repression of objections to the ongoing genocidal displacement in the Gaza Strip,…

It is now reasonable, after the thousands of civilian casualties and indescribable destruction we have seen, to ask how effectively the United States could pressure Israel, which is determined to continue its hysterical war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Almost every country and international…

More important than the Al-Aqsa Flood operation is the situation that will prevail after the war on Gaza ends. What will the situation be like on the present and future of Gaza, the West Bank, Israel and the region? Retaliation for the Flood with a new Nakba will only fuel instability…

More than 500 political appointees and staff members representing some 40 government agencies sent a letter to President Biden on Tuesday protesting his support of Israel in its war in Gaza. The letter, part of growing internal dissent over the administration’s support of the war, calls on the…

In defending the people of Gaza and condemning the collective punishment that Israel is brutally subjecting them to, we all repeated the argument that Gaza is not Hamas. It is a very valid point. Neglecting the array of distinctions that underpin it would lead to the destruction of all civilization…

A popular Arabic proverb teaches us that “The profits in gratuity are clear” - that is, it is easy to calculate profits when there are no costs. However, in our region, the profits of incitement are also clear, and the simplest example is Iran’s relationship with what is falsely called the axis of …