World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and the 27 member states of the European Union held their first-ever summit in the Belgian capital, Brussels, which is a genuine historic opportunity to develop a closer partnership between the two sides. The summit is exceptionally significant for two…

This is not the first time we face displacement, and it won't be the last. However, fate tells us that this may be our longest period of displacement, and that we will not return to the homes we grew up in any time soon. We might even need a miracle to go back. We have no shelter this time, no…

«This is not who we are! » This is one of the favorite shibboleths used by US Democrat Party’s presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her supporters with the aim of portraying supporters of her Republican rival Donald J. Trump as not quite American if not utterly alien. One of Ms. Harris’ …

As the momentum of the war on two fronts shifts from Gaza to Lebanon, the world is keeping a close eye on development on the Iranian front. The question asked most frequently in this regard: how will Israel retaliate to Iran’s recent missile barrage, to which the painful Binyamina incident has been…

It might be apt to characterize the contention between two popular schools of thought as one that stems from a divergence in how each identifies causes and interprets causality. One school understands causality through particular events and occurrences, without disregarding psychological,…

There wasn’t a hint of political rationality in Hezbollah deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem’s third televised speech since September 27. Indeed, it was an awkward attempt at promoting the idea that the party is still capable of waging this confrontation as it insists on keeping Lebanon trapped…

The future seems worrying, or rather catastrophic, to the Lebanese who have found themselves becoming "burdensome guests" in their own country. It is a real tragedy that over a million Lebanese have been displaced and uprooted within a few weeks following the Israeli military’s "advice" with an …

The main conclusion that can be drawn a year after the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation in the Gaza Envelope and the launch of the “support” war from Lebanon, is that this "flood" has drowned those behind it. Hamas has been reduced to Yahya Sinwar and his small entourage; Hezbollah has lost Sayyed Hassan…

In Tunis, Yasser Arafat used to gratefully look back on what he had presented to the Palestinian cause. Mohsen Ibrahim, the secretary-general of the Communist Action Organization in Lebanon, used to encourage him to reminisce about his time in Beirut. One day, Arafat asked: “Did we make Lebanon…

In 2015, Barack Obama submitted to interviews with three YouTube stars, one of whom was notable for eating cereal out of a bathtub. It was a moment that opened a window into the media landscape of the future, after the mainstream media as we have known it — while also making that future seem…

Israel is a country that worries its neighbors, and they are right to worry. It is the only nuclear power in the region, it does not abide by international law, and, in its wars with genocidal dimensions, Israel makes no noticeable effort to distinguish between combatants and civilians. With…

Accusations of betrayal and a barrage of insults have been hurled at anyone who cautioned Hamas, specifically Yahya Sinwar, since the war in Gaza began following the events of October 7th. Today, everyone is aware that we have lost our chance to salvage what could have been salvaged. Today, the…