World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Thirsting for a bit of good news in these bad times of war, Ukraine media headlined what it saw as a victory: The return to Kiev of a haul of artefacts from Crimea that had been on exhibit in European cities before Russia annexed the peninsula in 2014. The return came after a 10 year legal battle…

Growing up on a small rice farm in China in the 1960’s, my family was keenly aware that any single adverse weather event could wipe out a year’s worth of effort. The climate and weather patterns are something a farmer feels in his bones, but changes in these patterns and the extremity of events…

It is though Israel's criminal war on Gaza and Hezbollah turning south into a "base of support," has given the officials running the country an open-ended vacation and exempted them of the responsibilities theoretically on their shoulders... It has given them excuses to ignore the critical…

Today marks 365 days since India assumed the G20 Presidency. It is a moment to reflect, recommit, and rejuvenate the spirit of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future.’ As we undertook this responsibility last year, the global landscape grappled with multifaceted challenges:…

Following the "Al-Aqsa Flood," many voices, mostly Israeli and Western, compared Hamas's operation to the 9/11 attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda in the United States. Some went even further, considering them to be exactly the same and the operation to be Israel’s 9/11. On the other hand, however…

Following the ceasefire in Gaza, the screaming has intensified. There are two types: screams of suffering and mendacious screams. The former are the screams of the people we are seeing and hearing in Gaza, children, women, and men. The latter are screams that seek to distort the picture and muddle…

Two ideas have reared their heads amid the Gaza war. On the Palestinian side, a multipronged idea, expressed by both Palestinians and those who support the Palestinian cause, has emerged. Its foundational premise is that there can be no resistance without sacrifice and that peace has gotten the…

The Western world seems to have recently reached a rare moment of terrific lethargy by ignoring the tragedies and crimes of Israel’s war on Gaza. The war that Hamas ignited was met with an Israeli attack that crossed all red lines and targeted civilians and public facilities, including hospitals,…

When Israel launched its war on the Gaza Strip, the physical violence was accompanied by an even more violent proposition: Israel would accept nothing less than the eradication of Hamas and the return of all hostages without any conditions, negotiations, or exchange. Benjamin Netanyahu would go on…

These are four days of respite from the killing machine. However, between the optimism regarding an extension of this temporary pause and the pessimism in anticipation of a more cruel and more horrific round of bloodshed, negotiators are seeking to make progress and pretenders are making pretenses…

The day is March 9, 1973. Two generals rejoiced over news they deemed as the “grand prize”. The generals are Ariel Sharon and Moshe Dayan, who was then defense minister. Tales at the time said Dayan wanted to make sure himself and when he did, he ordered that sweets be handed out to the…

A 27-second video of a Palestinian child went viral on social media as soon as the four-day ceasefire in Gaza was declared. The child declared spontaneously and with complete joy that the “world is nice like this. Everyone listen, there’s no sound of planes. Can you hear?” He says so even…