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On Sunday, Israeli planes dropped leaflets over the Wazzani area in South Lebanon, demanding residents leave immediately under the pretext that Hezbollah was firing from the area. The most alarming part of the message was a phrase warning the population not to return “to this area until the end…

Yes, the question above is precise. It does not ask about the likelihood of a war breaking out, but of the war expanding, because Israel is waging a war on Lebanon, and it has been since the Gaza war began. The question now is: will it evolve to become a fully-fledged conflict? Israel has not…

The Arab Levant presents three models for addressing Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. There is the Lebanese model, which has entailed direct engagement since the day after the war began and rejecting any political solution to end it. However, this engagement has not had a tangible impact on Israel…

A scheme to steal public and private money, which is known in Baghdad as the Noor Zuhair heist, and the evaporation of bank deposits and dubious financial engineering allegedly that former governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon Riad Salameh has been accused of, pose a challenge to the political…

Is France going to have an extremist president in a few months’ time? If we believe the prophecy made by popular novelist Michel Houellebecq in his “Submission” in 2015 the answer must be yes. In the novel Houellebecq claimed that the French have only seven years that is until 2025 to prevent…

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) fact-finding report on Sudan issued a few days ago would not have caused all this commotion if it had merely documented the human rights violations and called for holding the perpetrators accountable. However, the report…

Not all settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are believers. Some are motivated by practical considerations; among them are those seeking low rents, nature enthusiasts, those trying to escape the burdens of the world, and those pursuing what they consider an optimal environment for raising…

After a Jordanian truck driver killed three Israelis at the King Hussein Bridge border crossing in the occupied West Bank last Sunday, Sami Abu Zuhri, the head of Hamas’ foreign political bureau, praised the attack and framed it as a response to the Israeli assault on Gaza. According to Reuters,…

One of the key flaws in the Lebanese political system, alongside its deeply rooted sectarian and religious divisions that have obstructed any real progress toward equality among its citizens, is the absence of constitutional, political, and judicial accountability in all its forms. This critical…

Even by the Middle Eastern standards, the past year has been full of surprises. A bolt-from-the-blue attack by Hamas produced the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. The resulting Israel-Hamas war in Gaza has now lasted longer than nearly anyone first imagined. Iran launched perhaps the…

The deadlock in France has been broken, at least temporarily. The first step of forming the next government was taken after a prime minister was tasked with forming it. In principle, there is nothing problematic about choosing Michel Barnier, a seasoned politician and diplomat who has…

Whoever knows Jordan, knows that its fate is tied to the Palestinians. It cannot abandon the open Palestinian wound and doesn’t even want to. The establishment of the two-state solution is in Jordan’s higher interest. Keeping the bleeding wound open makes worry a daily part of life in Jordan. The…