World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The images coming from Lebanon are painful, terrifying and horrific. Bodies are being retrieved from under the rubble, and houses are burned or abandoned. A million refugees – a record number in the country’s history. They sleep in the open in the capital and others sleep in their cars because…

When we teach military strategy to university students, we do not solely focus on questions of superiority and military actions using tanks, airplanes, and missiles. Strategic containment is often crucial for effectiveness and achieving results. Here, I ask observers, specialists, and decision…

Last week, on a single day of an undeclared war, one of the protagonists suffered more than 500 deaths and more than 1,600 wounded, a total of over 2,200 casualties. The country in question has a population of 5 million. Now imagine if that casulaty figure had occurred in a country with a…

The third Lebanon War is close to becoming totally unrestrained, and the country is exposed. Israel launched a devastating incursion by air last Saturday that has turned into genocide since Monday. Massacres have been perpetrated in the south and the Bekaa Valley, resulting in a heavy toll: over…

- Once again, humans become an ephemeral detail. Devastated civilians, mourning loved ones they have lost, homes that have been destroyed, and lives of poverty and deprivation they will face... these are all mere numbers, or scenes we watch as they unfold on our television screens. No one takes…

The wheels of the US presidential elections are already in motion, as early voting has begun in many states. As November 5 approaches, with the political violence hovering above, a major question is being asked loudly: "What is the position of the US military establishment, especially if violence…

The election of 2016, both Donald Trump’s shocking victory and Bernie Sanders’s socialist insurgency, created a sudden swell of ideological ambition. Conservative thinkers rushed to fill in the outlines of Trumpian populism, building various intellectual frameworks for an incipient “post-liberal”…

To justify the severe blows it has received, Hezbollah and its supporters console themselves with the notion that "we have been sacrificing martyrs for 40 years." The party’s shrewd bi-pronged propaganda game is centered around this theme. Managing the contradictions of its narrative, it glorifies…

I assume that the nature of Israel's role, especially under its current leadership, in the ongoing crime committed in Gaza, is above dispute. It is now expanding its war and exacerbating the destruction in Lebanon. There is no question or doubt about it, especially since the Palestinians and…

For years, there have been questions around the number of years that have passed since Saudi National Day was announced. For example, this year marks the 94th anniversary, and some are asking how that could be the case when the first National Day (the day the unification of the country was…

For nearly a year, the region has lived with the war that was sparked by the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation. It also seemed that Israel has started to live with the “war of support” launched by Hezbollah within certain rules of engagement. The impression was that the United States succeeded in preventing…

Today, voices in Lebanon that had been more fearful and reticent in the past are being raised to demand that Hezbollah stop waging this war that leaves civilians vulnerable to gratuitous death. This comes after all of this war’s pretexts collapsed and the theory that "the party is protecting…