World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Seven years ago, I wrote about the “regional rise of Israel.” Today, its presence is greater than ever. It’s behind massive geopolitical changes in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks. After all this, how does Israel now view itself? It’s unlikely that it will settle for its old role; it…

For a region often hailed as the future of the global economy, it’s been an unedifying experience. One by one, Asian leaders swallowed trade accords with the US that are slightly better than envisaged months ago, but more punitive than when they bet on access to the American market as a development…

Additional countries could endorse the roadmap for a comprehensive vision that ends the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through the two-state solution, while leaving questions on the borders of the Palestinian state, settlements, and the fate of Jerusalem to negotiations between the two sides. That is…

Wandering through the halls of China’s top artificial intelligence summit this week, I overheard heated debates on some of the thorniest issues facing the sector: How do we solve the problem of interoperability if hundreds of companies are launching their own AI agents? Which large language models…

The recent meeting between the United States, France, and Syria remains the subject of much speculation and debate, with much of the focus on what was actually agreed upon... This state of affairs is neither new nor surprising, given the unusual circumstances in which the meeting was held and…

The recent events in Sweida were not merely sectarian clashes between unruly, radical, or tribal forces and the people of Jabal al-Druze. Rather, they were also a window into the profound structural crisis that has been rattling Syria since the collapse of the Assad regime that no one shed a tear…

When you see the "diligence" of an Israeli with the audacity to appear in Western media and try to justify their government's actions, watching them spectacularly fail to defend their position or respond to their interlocutor, you notice that it does nothing to soften the cutting criticism of…

Wars have erupted in several Middle Eastern countries, and Israel has gotten involved in all of them. It took on Hezbollah in Lebanon, eliminated most of its leaders, and dismantled most, though not all, of its military capabilities. Hezbollah remains at the center of controversy, both inside…

The war in Gaza, with all its horrors, is approaching its second year, making it the longest and deadliest confrontation in the history of the Palestinian and Arab-Israeli conflict. Why has the Gaza war lasted this long? Some believe that Israel fears for the remaining hostages. Others think…

The first component of wisdom is a precise assessment of the balance of power. It is indispensable in war, revolution, or a coup d’état. The balance of power is an almost inescapable consideration that cannot easily be written out of the equation. Ignoring it usually leads to catastrophic…

Recently, some Israelis and Jews opposed to Netanyahu’s government have noticed that the images coming out of Gaza resemble, to some extent, images that conveyed faces from the Jewish Holocaust. The densely populated civilian areas punished indiscriminately - killed by weapons as well as starvation…

History shows us that the Middle East has long been the land of spiritual values. To this day, these values remain the moral system of large segments of the globe. It is in this region that the three monotheistic religions were born. It was on this land that the routes of global trade once passed,…