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The last point of refuge for Palestinians fleeing from Israel’s relentless siege of Gaza is collapsing under the weight of tens of thousands of people seeking food and shelter, stirring fears of a potential mass displacement into Egypt, United Nations officials warned on Sunday. Pressure is…

The hell that is the war in Gaza is the result of a long series of underestimations. Firstly, the Israelis underestimated the significance of Hamas’s ideology. They underestimated the capacities of some Hamas wings, assuming that these wings could never imagine the impossible and strive to realize…

I remember that I have taken a particular interest in recent years in the question of the extent to which governments and parties need a spokesperson. Over time, with the expansion of the debate and the accumulation of practices, many in the Arab world have begun to seriously pose a more radical…

The brutal Israeli assault which Gaza has been - and continues to be - subjected to, goes beyond our wildest imagination, and on many occasions it has exposed the inadequacy of words for articulating reality. On the other hand, however, it is not understandable for engagement with this calamity to…

The “next day” is an expression that has been haunting us for weeks. While it is still general and ambiguous, its features will most likely consist of a number of elements. Those will be determined by the questions raised by the Al-Aqsa Flood operation launched by Hamas on October 7th; by the…

For weeks, Americans in a host of Democratic-led cities have packed their government chambers for marathon sessions, all to demand immediate action from local leaders on a matter nowhere near home: the Israel-Hamas war. More than a dozen US city councils have now passed resolutions urging Israel…

Palestinian division is no secret, nor is the rift between Fatah and Hamas, which has been entrenched since Hamas threw members of Fatah off the roof following their 2007 coup in Gaza. Today, however, this dispute is back at the forefront following the comments of Osama Hamdan, Hamas’s top official…

The Hamas Movement’s announcement of establishing the so-called “Vanguards of the Al-Aqsa Flood” in Lebanon has raised concerns among all Lebanese, especially the residents of the South, over the return of the Palestinian armed struggle to the interior via the Lebanese border. The…

The history of terrorism in pursuit of political aims is as long as history itself. However, the past two decades have witnessed important, and needless to say worrying, developments in what could be seen as a zoological version of political activism. The old versions saw disgruntled…

The second round of the Israeli war on Gaza began after a week-long ceasefire. It continues after two months. The Israeli leadership, although it is unwilling to publicly admit this, realizes that it has fallen captive to the unattainable goals to obliterate Hamas it had set. The war rages on…

The horrors of war and death evoke habits that, given their long history, it would be more precise to call traditions. Those who practice the first habit are usually seen as utopian and preachers, as their honorable insistence on putting an end to the deaths comes with a neglect of the political…

We are seeing more debate about the future of Gaza and who will govern it. The Biden administration has been preparing for that since the war on Gaza began, and Washington seems close to having developed a clear picture of what it wants to see. It will certainly be a complex process. The Israelis…