World News Insights: Opinion Articles

In confronting Israel, which strikes arbitrarily and stops at nothing, armed with superior lethal technology and international support that is overwhelming in both its scope and bias, the only slogan we should not raise is the one we are raising: “The enemy only understands the language of force.” …

To Mr. Khaled Meshaal, I will address you as Abu Al-Walid. In your interview with Al Arabiya broadcaster, you touched on several issues, political, historical, and religious. Your rhetoric was neither coherent nor consistent, but like that of a messenger. I will not dwell on the political matters…

Why did Hamas trigger the current tragedy that has given the old Israel-Palestine conflict an even deadlier dimension? And what are the chances for shooing the two sides away from the edge of the abyss? The tsunami comments on the latest episode shows that the Israel-Palestine conflict remains…

The world is embroiled in a two-pronged crisis. On October 7, Hamas attacked Israel that retaliated with intensified shelling on Gaza. In addition to hospitals being targeted, the mass displacement and Israel’s cut of electricity and water supplies to the besieged strip, skirmishes continue with…

In his speech at the 78th United Nations General Assembly held around two weeks ago, Netanyahu presented a map of what is called the "new Middle East." In this map, Israel controls all of historic Palestine, including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The map that grants Israel total control from…

"We reaffirm our unwavering stance regarding the Palestinian right to establish an independent state with Al-Quds as its capital." This is Iraq's steadfast position, reiterated at the United Nations General Assembly in September this year. It remains the cornerstone of our support for…

I cannot exactly tell which of leaderships of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad or Hamas ordered the launch of the latest "Gaza War". But frankly, given the enormity of what we have seen and what we may still see, such a question becomes insignificant. What happened has happened; and Benjamin…

The great paradox of the Gaza war could perhaps be summed up in this two-pronged and contradictory discovery: on the one hand, the Palestinian problem can only be solved politically, through the establishment of a state for the Palestinian people, and on the other hand, this is no longer possible. …

Hamas is not an exception when considering the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. If flaunting attacks made the difference, then we must be mindful that other Palestinian organizations had preceded Hamas to that in the past, leaving the world in awe with attacks of no less magnitude. The…

For at least the past four years, Lebanon, both as a state and as a nation, has been facing three major crises, in addition to the calamitous Beirut port blast. These crises are persistent, intertwined, and extremely resistant to the state management: An unprecedented economic-financial…

Since the first day of Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood operation against Israel, Iran has been issuing consecutive statements, as if they were tweets on X (formerly Twitter), in an unprecedented way in all past Gaza wars. I will point to some of them, up to the last statement at the moment of writing this…

Israel and Iran agree on obliterating the Palestinian national project through Gaza, and differ on everything else. Under Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership, Israel has sought to crush the prospects of a unified Palestinian state. Meanwhile, Iran has to kill off any hope for peace in the region…