World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Many in the Western press are stressing the need for a clear peace plan that allows a two-state solution to be formulated now, not after the end of the war on Gaza. I don't believe that this proposal is mere speculation, but a kind of leak. If these suggestions are indeed leaks, then that is…

Three recent intertwined developments that makeup part of the intricate tapestry of Middle Eastern politics shed light on the current complexities of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its broader regional dynamics. First, we have the joint Arab-Islamic Summit, which ended with a noteworthy final…

It has been around a month and a half since the October 7 operation in the Gaza Envelope; skepticism is increasing and the risks are accumulating. Setting to one side the bravado shown by Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who have talked about changing maps and claimed…

The Palestinians have fought two major wars: one went on for 88 days and left both sides with a high number of casualties. However, it led to the withdrawal of the Palestinian revolutionary forces from the South and Beirut, before they left Lebanon altogether. The Israelis called the 1982 war …

A ceasefire is not enough to put out the flames. The oppression that causes the blaze needs to be confronted. Avoiding confronting the heart of the problem turns a ceasefire into a truce and paves the way for a broader conflagration. This oppression dates back seven decades. The embers of the…

Joe Biden versus Donald Trump is not the choice America wants. But it is the choice we need to face. Yes, both men are unpopular, remarkably so. Only a third of Americans view President Biden favorably, and two-thirds of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters want to nominate someone else for…

Of course, neither of the two outcomes in the headline is inevitable. In fact, if one party were to emerge victorious, it would not attain a pure victory without partners and free of pressure exerted by third parties. Nonetheless, the headline and extreme potential outcomes seek to establish…

The latest book of Amin Maalouf, the Lebanese author and Permanent Secretary of the French Academy, which was recently published by the prestigious French publishing house, Edition Grasset, is a must-read. “The Labyrinth of the Lost: The West and Its Enemies” examines the current manifestation of…

We are currently experiencing a moment of profound human suffering globally. A pandemic of inhumanity has taken hold, from Darfur to Ukraine, from the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan to the seemingly forgotten voices of Rohingya refugees in Myanmar, and now the intolerable tragedy that is…

“Paris could become a battlefield!” This was how commentators speculated about a “solidarity with Palestine” demonstration that the police had authorized for last Saturday. The concern was not groundless. A few days before, a Harris opinion poll had shown that 82 percent of the French feared a…

Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan's decision to dismiss two armed movement officials in Darfur from their government positions a few days ago, created a sharp debate about the Juba Peace Agreement between the Sudanese government and several armed movements. The agreement, which had been…

In 1948, the first war between a newly established Jewish state and newly independent Arab countries broke out. In a sense, the battles were fought between a Zionist militia and seven regular armies led by conservative notables. The wars that followed, in 1956, 1967, and 1973, were fought between…