World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Iran’s relentless pressure on the US, via Arab proxies across the Middle East, has been mounting for some time, but intensified since the 7 October war in Gaza and may escalate after the latest attack on the Houthis in Yemen. While the Houthis have been firing drones and missiles at ships and…

The US-British strikes on the Houthis in response to their disruption of maritime navigation were predictable and inevitable. Rather, they had been so since the Houthis took control of Sanaa and insisted on behaving like a militia, not a political party that shares power with others, like the other…

“We will fight until it ends, or we end.” Words that express the logic of stubbornness and insistence on the war of extermination. This is the conviction of the Sudanese Army commander General Abdulfattah Al-Burhan in his response to peace with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as he rejected an…

If you thought you knew all you need to know about the war in Gaza, think again. Much depends on where and how you get your news from. Last week I decided to do a little, obviously non-scientific, experiment by following the Gaza news through two channels: the old BBC, one of Great Britain’s most…

If Israel were to calculate the losses it has suffered in its ongoing war, it could only come to this conclusion: Gaza, with its tunnels, has become a nightmare that strikes more fear than armies and all their lethal and devastating tools. Israel has dug itself into its own tunnel, and it is…

If its link with the West is among the most robust sources of Israel’s power, it could potentially become among the weakest. In the face of the West’s intense military, political, and financial support, there is a Western paradigm that the Jewish state favors and gravitates towards. What is this…

Since the outbreak of its war on Gaza, Israel has killed about 139 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. Israel's targeting of Hezbollah members is not new; they have regularly come under fire on Syrian territory. Now, things are changing, especially after the Israeli war on Gaza. Israel is…

The strike on the “Hezbollah al-Nujaba” militia, the wing that is most unrelenting and audacious in its refusal to be tamed by the state, was a predictable reaction given the group’s leading role in attacks on US interests in Iraq. However, the ultimate question today is whether a critical…

Is it in our interest to know the truth about what is happening in our region... or are we too innocent to handle the bitterness? My personal feeling - and I hope I am wrong - is that we are too innocent and helpless to deal with the challenges that 2024 will bring us, especially after the…

Two far-right members of Israel’s cabinet — the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich — caused an international uproar this week with their calls to depopulate Gaza. “If in Gaza there will be 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs and not two million the entire…

After the October 7 operation, Zionism became the subject of two readings and projections: Either Zionism’s failure as a remedy for the Jewish question is concluded, a remedy that was claimed to be the only way to guarantee the Jews a homeland and state that safeguard their security, thereby…

In the early hours of April 11, 1973, officer Ehud Barak returned home, lipstick still on his lips. Doubts plagued his wife. She feared the young officer may have betrayed his country. But the news would soon ease her concerns. He came with Palestinian blood on his hands. Hours earlier, an…