World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Anyone contemplating the scene in the region - and let us imagine, dear reader, the following image: Israel continues to strike Gaza and Hamas, and targets the Iranian militias in Syria and Lebanon, while Iranian militias continue to attack the Americans in Iraq and Syria through the Houthis. This…

These days, the residents of South Lebanon see Hezbollah as a shattered shield. After the shadow of the liberation narrative that had been imposed on everyone and embellished by Hezbollah loomed large for over two decades, 2000, the year Israel withdrew from the country, now seems like a long, long…

Doesn't the world deserve respectable leaders who put an end to the appeasement of the masses with slogans and populist actions? Many believed that increased awareness and culture in the 21st century would create a bulwark against this sort of behavior and that it would be voted out at the polls if…

After many Lebanese officials voiced similar positions, Prime Minister Najib Mikati took things further than his colleagues and seemed less embarrassed about his embarrassing position. Besides implicitly acknowledging that Hezbollah is the actual negotiator at the table in which the situation in…

The region was spared a real catastrophe, but only temporarily, when both Pakistan and Iran were content with mutual strikes on the borders of the two countries, after the unprecedented attack carried out by Tehran on the Pakistani border. The Iranian assault on Pakistani territory almost led to a…

The phrase “Made from recycled materials” was what first caught my eye, printed on a label attached to a sweater. Upon closer examination, I found that the word recycled referred to the small label itself, and not the sweater, which was not made from used or recyclable materials. This is an extreme…

Speaking the same language does not necessarily mean understanding one another. For example, "The Americans and the English are two nations separated by the same language" - they are different despite speaking the same language. Even among these two nations who speak the same language, there are…

More than a hundred years ago, Greater Lebanon had its premature birth. It was a difficult birth, and was completed by the 1943 formula, which has nurtured its natural and atypical growth up to this moment, to the extent that whoever took charge of it, i.e. its political class, grew old, but the…

Torture at ringside! This is how Antoine Blondin, perhaps the greatest contemporary French sports writer, described the agonies of hard-core fans of combat sports. They are glued to the ringside, watch the fight, see or imagine that they see the mistakes of the adversaries in the ring, wish they…

The dangerous escalation of military operations on the southern Lebanese front, with Israeli raids to hitting targets around 40 km from the border as to US mediation efforts of Amos Hochstein, have instigated the countdown to an Israeli war on Lebanon that threatens to demolish the country. War…

In the mid-19th century, the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard published his famous book “Either/or,” in which he argues that individuals must choose between an aesthetic life and a religious and spiritual life. “Either/or” consists of two volumes: one about the first life, or the first…

In 2009, the Iraqi Prime Minister at the time, Nouri al-Maliki, called on the Security Council to investigate Syria's role in the bombings of "Bloody Wednesday." He accused the Damascus regime of harboring Baathists and terrorists targeting Iraq. Now, in 2024, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry has…