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Swift justice has made hooligans think twice about joining the mobs that brought mayhem to Britain’s streets last week. Round-the-clock courts and firm policing have, at least temporarily, acted as a deterrent to more of the violence whipped up on social media by far-right agitators. Prime…

Are we headed towards a new Palestinian Nakba that is more horrific than the first? Are we standing before a new chapter in the long bitter conflict when Yayha al-Sinwar replaces Yasser Arafat and Hamas replaces Fatah? Is Hamas banking on claiming the right to speak on behalf of the Palestinian…

If a headline were to be given to Benjamin Netanyahu’s interview with the American Time magazine, it should be, “Why Won’t I Respond”! This interview was not about explanation or justification, but rather a declaration that he will do what he wants without regard for anyone else. During the…

Neither Iran nor Israel will instigate a long war that sees the two go head-to-head directly. Every surface-level indication that points to the opposite is nothing more than "political voodoo." That much is obvious to anyone who has read between the lines of their statements. It seems that both…

We are witnessing significant changes as a result of the ongoing conflict between the two regional powers, Iran and Israel, which has been escalating since last October. We are in an advanced stage of the conflict, with both sides defending their positions and attempting to exploit the crisis to…

"Today he is the bravest, the wisest and the most popular leader of the Resistance Front." This is how the daily Kayhan spoke of guess who. Wrong guess. The daily's editorialists are notorious for their exaggerated praise of the "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei. But this time it was not Khamenei…

The Palestinian struggle is at the forefront of the regional priorities agenda after a years-long absence that resulted from the need to put out the many other fires that have broken out. The Palestinian question has now become the most pressing and volatile concern in the region following Israel's…

Time and again, a pressing need to reaffirm the obvious reemerges: Israel is alarming the people of the region, and they should be alarmed, and not only for reasons tied to Palestinian rights and deterring settlement and the occupation of Arab territories. Added to all of that: First, it is a…

The events of the past week alone demonstrate that the past five decades have been absurd. Our region has seen nothing but blatant lies that cost lives, money, and the destruction of states and their social fabric, all in the name of empty slogans. These are the developments in question: Khalid…

When the conflict that tore former Yugoslavia apart broke out and everyone, near and far, found out that all the fault lines of "Balkanization" intersected in this Balkan state, we in the Arab and Islamic worlds witnessed the massacres of Srebrenica and Zepa, I was studying to obtain my master's…

Many expected missiles to rain down on Tel Aviv following the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital, Tehran, and the many assassinations of Iran’s followers in Iraq and Lebanon. The Haniyeh assassination in particular "violated Iran's honor," as the secretary-general of…

Benjamin Netanyahu was not content with kidnapping Israel itself, Palestine, Lebanon, and perhaps Syria. He has decided to take the entire region hostage before finishing the Gaza war and drag it to the place it wants to avoid. No one following regional developments a year ago, and no experts in…