World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Two million people, give or take, carry Hebrew documents that include everything from their birth certificate to their death certificate, and from the gray ID card to the Israeli passport, in their pockets. Alarmingly, we are currently witnessing a spike in the murder rate in Palestinian…

Hassan Nasrallah heralded a new modus vivendi between Hezbollah and Israel: “Stone Age for Stone Age.” This is nothing but another testament to how far detached from reality this man is, and how weak his senses of history and power dynamics are. With his formula, Nasrallah takes us back to…

A cultural war, the likes of which the country has not seen since the mid-1970s, is raging in Lebanon. Youths influenced by freedom movements across the globe, or who have lived in the West, or who feel that no one has the right to tell them how to think and love, or what to watch... have begun…

The Middle East has wasted decades – if not more – of the lives of its people. They were squandered when the region fell victim to coups, interventions and fear. Policies that are obsessed with victory and making others yield to them, while ignoring the pressing need for stability. Wealth was…

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomed Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian while he was visiting Saudi Arabia, prompting speculation about the trip. Some read into the body language in the photos that were released. Others made speculation. In Washington, some, like…

"Had I known that my success would be at the expense of destroying the planet, I would have chosen another job." lamented the founder of one of the largest budget travel and tourism operators in Europe. That was in the wake of the fires in the Greek Islands and the floods in Slovenia, where…

Regardless of how powerful they may become, rulers need to use their sense of hearing. Aversion to listening to the people’s voice inevitably alienates the governed sooner or later, no matter how convinced they are of the ideology or how robust their partisan affiliation is. When those in positions…

“Brexit has failed!” This is what Nigel Farage, the sulfurous politician who was the cheerleader for Britain leaving the European Union said in a television interview last week. A day later it was the turn of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the man who railroaded Brexit through the…

Israeli Minister of War Yoav Gallant, who threatened to take Lebanon to the Stone Age, missed something. The mafia-militia coalition imposing its grip on Lebanon has beaten him to it. The sectarian-quota-based spoil-sharing regime, both those “in government” and “the opposition.” Indeed, the March…

If I were asked to trace the decline of the American psyche, I suppose I would go to a set of cultural changes that started directly after World War II and built over the next few decades, when writers as diverse as Philip Rieff, Christopher Lasch and Tom Wolfe noticed the emergence of what came to…

Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the terrorist group Hezbollah, attacked a Lebanese “television broadcaster,” blaming it for the incident that transpired in the Al-Kahaleh after a Hezbollah arms truck overturned there, leading to an armed skirmish between Kahaleh residents and those guarding the truck…

When Michel Aflaq founded the ‘’Arab Baath Party,’’ he attributed a message that he called eternal to the “one Arab nation.” Many minds were left perplexed after trying to explain the meaning of that message, or why, among all the peoples of the earth, the Arabs were the ones only with a message. …