World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Even before it started it was evident that the Cop 28 jamboree to “save the planet” would not satisfy the high expectations, some of them contradictory, of the 198 nations and dozens of non-governmental organizations attending the event with different agendas including some hidden ones. It is,…

“America is Alone”: was the headline of this newspaper’s piece on what happened recently in the Security Council. The US was indeed alone when it used its veto. No country in the world supported it. Even Britain was content with abstaining, while France voted the other way. This dire outcome tells…

The United States on Friday vetoed a United Nations resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has launched hundreds of strikes, relief efforts were faltering and people were growing so desperate for basic necessities that some were stoning and raiding aid…

As usual with crises in our region, and when a war breaks out as a result of a misadventure or in service of regional agendas, the battle has two fronts: one on the ground and another in the public sphere that waged to distort the discourse and divert attention away from the big picture. This…

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…