World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The brutal shedding of Jewish blood on Oct. 7, followed by Israel’s relentless military assault on Gaza, has brought a fraught question to the fore in a moment of surging bigotry and domestic political gamesmanship: Is anti-Zionism by definition antisemitism? The question has deeply…

Over the past month, we’ve watched an astonishing, high-stakes global drama play out in The Hague. A group of countries from the poorer, less powerful bloc some call the global south, led by South Africa, dragged the government of Israel and, by extension, its rich, powerful allies into the top…

Around thirty years ago, six years before 9/11, "Jihad vs. McWorld" was published and widely read. It was printed in two editions, each with a different subtitle: "How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World" and "Terrorism's Threat to Democracy." The author of the book is the American…

A few days ago, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced the Kingdom’s National Biotechnology Strategy, which can be considered a new initiative of Vision 2030. The strategy aims to turn Saudi Arabia into a biotechnology pioneer in the Middle East and North Africa by the end of this decade…

All talk now is focused on the nature of the expected US response to Iran, in the wake of the killing of three US soldiers on the Jordanian border by an Iranian militia drone. Will it be an effective reaction or just a formal one? Republicans are demanding a harsh response, and within Iran itself. …

In the past, the flu shot elicited the most resistance. The patients at my New York City practice would take their other vaccinations without a second thought but balk at the flu shot — because their sister is allergic to eggs or because they’re sure that the flu shot always gives them the flu or…

The devastation of Gaza is at intolerable levels and getting worse; the Israeli government is under intense pressure from the families of hostages to do far more to free them before they perish; the United States and Arab states, anxious to avoid a regional war, are trying to mediate an end to the…

Unless Washington radically changes its strategy for dealing with Iran, after the attack on an American base in Jordan, there is no reason to expect another Qasem Soleimani to be eliminated, and by extension, that the US will rebuild deterrence vis-a-vis the Mullah regime. If there's one thing Iran…

Amid the influx of "political gifts" Israel is being granted by major Western countries on the anniversary of the Holocaust, and the sympathy shown for its leaders following the position of the International Court on the actions it has taken - and continues to take - in the Gaza Strip... political…

Just over 100 days ago, Benny Gantz was the leader of a small Israeli opposition party. Now, in a shared office inside a nondescript building within the Defense Ministry compound in Tel Aviv, “Mr.” Gantz is helping lead Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza as a member of the war cabinet formed by…

There has been plenty of hand-wringing in the West about the prospect of China displacing — or at least rivaling — the United States as the world’s leading superpower. But the evolving security crisis in the Red Sea makes clear that this remains a distant prospect. China, with a trade-led…

Both Iran and Israel have managed, in record time, to mobilize the largest number of adversaries or lose the largest number of friends. Iran has Europe’s overt or covert sympathy, pushing the Europeans to adopt a position more aligned with their US ally because they have concluded that Iran has…