World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The war in Gaza has now gone where many feared it would, expanding into conflict in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and the Red Sea. With America’s repeated strikes against the Houthis in Yemen this month, fears of a larger regional conflagration are steadily growing. Present in each of those arenas is Iran —…

If you had asked me just a couple of weeks ago I might have assured you that Pakistan is the last county with which the Islamic Republic in Tehran would pick a fight. I might have cited many reasons for that opinion. First, A recent demise of the classical reasons for antagonism between…

"As a Jew, I believe that Israel now puts my life in danger because it incites hatred against me and fuels anti-Semitism worldwide," Rony Brauman tells us. He comes from a long line of Zionists, and he was shaken by the suffering of the Palestinians, so much so that he suddenly realized that the…

Just a few months ago, President Biden rarely said the name of his likely opponent in the 2024 presidential election — former President Donald J. Trump — instead invoking other Republicans as proxies during public events or, on occasion, referring simply to “the former guy.” But speaking in…

Emptiness generates a stronger echo than sounds. This principle applies to politics, especially to political settlements. Although the Palestinian struggle has been ongoing for longer than any other and has generated more conflicts, coups, and turbulence than any other, it is always subject, when…

Anyone contemplating the scene in the region - and let us imagine, dear reader, the following image: Israel continues to strike Gaza and Hamas, and targets the Iranian militias in Syria and Lebanon, while Iranian militias continue to attack the Americans in Iraq and Syria through the Houthis. This…

These days, the residents of South Lebanon see Hezbollah as a shattered shield. After the shadow of the liberation narrative that had been imposed on everyone and embellished by Hezbollah loomed large for over two decades, 2000, the year Israel withdrew from the country, now seems like a long, long…

Doesn't the world deserve respectable leaders who put an end to the appeasement of the masses with slogans and populist actions? Many believed that increased awareness and culture in the 21st century would create a bulwark against this sort of behavior and that it would be voted out at the polls if…

After many Lebanese officials voiced similar positions, Prime Minister Najib Mikati took things further than his colleagues and seemed less embarrassed about his embarrassing position. Besides implicitly acknowledging that Hezbollah is the actual negotiator at the table in which the situation in…

The region was spared a real catastrophe, but only temporarily, when both Pakistan and Iran were content with mutual strikes on the borders of the two countries, after the unprecedented attack carried out by Tehran on the Pakistani border. The Iranian assault on Pakistani territory almost led to a…

The phrase “Made from recycled materials” was what first caught my eye, printed on a label attached to a sweater. Upon closer examination, I found that the word recycled referred to the small label itself, and not the sweater, which was not made from used or recyclable materials. This is an extreme…

Speaking the same language does not necessarily mean understanding one another. For example, "The Americans and the English are two nations separated by the same language" - they are different despite speaking the same language. Even among these two nations who speak the same language, there are…