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The city of Nabatieh is no more important than the southern towns and villages Israel has occupied and destroyed, or those it controls by fire, nor is it an exception in the exodus of the south and the southerners such that every light should be trained on it now. Nor can the pressure on it be…

More than a year ago when some American politicians and pundits were beating the drums for war against Iran, Victor Davis Hanson reminded his audience that two of what he terms “the 10 decisive battles” that “the West” has fought in history were against Iran. The battles mentioned by the…

In 2002, David Blunkett, the former British home secretary, proposed a bill requiring citizens to carry a personal identity card bearing their names, photographs, and home address. Britain is one of 11 countries that do not require their citizens to carry identification inside the country. The…

No two people differ over the fact that Sudan is living through a harsh ordeal imposed by the war, its consequences, and the interventions in it, or that the Sudanese citizen is paying the heaviest price today. Anyone walking the streets of Khartoum's three cities sees the enormous scale of the…

The way in which Israel dealt with the children's kites in Gaza points to a state of paranoia, one that takes a persecutory form and heightens the readiness for a nervous breakdown. To treat those toys as hostile drones resembles seeing a threat in every movement, a plot in every whispered word…

The summit marking the 25th anniversary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization opened in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, running from August 31 to September 1. The questions hovering over this summit are many, and the reckoning of a quarter century's developments is being watched from global…

French elections have often witnessed sharp polarization, pivotal moments, and major transformations. It is already clear that the next presidential election, scheduled for next year, will be one of them. Its first signs have appeared: the French employers' association held a major conference…

Without recounting the facts in detail, the Palestinian situation can be described as being “caught in a vortex.” Whenever a glimmer of an escape appears, developments take place that pull the situation back into the same vortex. Through the Oslo agreements and understandings, which were sponsored…

In his support for America’s independence from Britain, the Scottish philosopher David Hume said he was “an American in principle” and wished that Americans would be left “to manage their own affairs as they see fit.” In a strange twist of fate, Americans have forgotten this principle while…

There is no doubt that the decision by General Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), to dissolve the forces is a historic one. This is because it steers the Kurds away from a path of bloodshed and similarly removes other Syrians from that same trajectory of confrontation…

There appears to be an implicit international consensus to end the era of transnational groups. Following ISIS and al-Qaeda, the turn has come for Iran's proxies, which - led by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - have become a global threat. Here lies the global turning point that…

Consider chess. The board is indispensable if you are to make out the paths of the pieces within the game's laws and rules - their positions at the starting point and what moves they can and can’t make. You draw on the varied capacities of the queen and the knight, you recognize the limits of the…