World News Insights: Opinion Articles

We often hear Mohammad Raad reiterate that “the Israeli enemy is in crisis,” to which the Hezbollah deputy always adds: “If the enemy wants to expand the conflict, we are ready.” The longer the skirmish goes on, the more evident the victory over Zionist arrogance, for we have only used a small…

Hanna Saleh

The Gaza battle appears to be nearing its end with signs of agreements emerging, Hamas and Israel being closer in distance and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah announcing that there will be no retaliatory war for the deaths of around 500 Hezbollah leaders. This is in addition to the remains of dead…

Abdulrahman Al-Rashed

In familiar debates that accompany major events, as is the case with the Gaza War, some increasingly use "history" against those who do not share their opinion. The latter are presented as not standing "on the right side of history," and, borrowing the phrase that Leon Trotsky used to refer to his…

Hazem Saghieh

Since the war in Gaza began eleven months ago, all the parties concerned (the warring factions, mediators, or the countries seeking to stop the war) have been engaged in confrontations, waging struggles, and facing criticism. However, they are negotiating and "playing politics," but the same cannot…

Tariq Al-Homayed

Ever since Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president, making her the first Black woman and the first person of South Asian descent to be nominated for national office by a major party, celebrations of the historic moment have ensued. So, too, have the related moans about how,…

Vanessa Friedman

The political storm around Donald Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery should be understood in the context of the crude political spite we see during presidential election season. Democrats, along with liberal media outlets, have been up in arms over a photo op that Trump took alongside his…

Nadim Koteich

The confusion that has plagued British Conservative governments since 2016, the year of the Brexit referendum, has not abated. In fact, it continues even after a Labor government came to power. A quick glance at media reports offers a rather bleak picture of the situation: the ongoing crisis of…

Jumah Boukleb

Senator Jack Reed, the West Point graduate, Army veteran and Rhode Island Democrat who leads the Armed Services Committee, is hardly known as a troublemaker prone to rash statements. So when Senate Democrats gathered privately with President Biden’s top political advisers last month to assess Mr…

Carl Hulse

The closed rooms where the region's crises are negotiated have been brimming with announced and secret meetings, with them has emerged a flurry of news reports in the media, and endless rumors and positions on social media platforms! All of this is happening while decisions on the fate of the Arab…

Eyad Abu Shakra

As Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken flew to Mongolia on July 31, his mind was on events far away, in the Middle East. Hours earlier, Israel had assassinated a top Hamas leader in Tehran, and Iranian officials were vowing retaliation for the murder of a close ally on their soil. Using a secure…

Michael Crowley, Eric Schmitt and Edward Wong

When someone is described as "having his voice heard," it means he is influential or powerful. The voice is a tool of power and empowerment, and because it is so, those who object or make demands "raise their voices." If their demands are not met, they raise their voices even higher, eventually…

Hazem Saghieh

Where will Benjamin Netanyahu take Israel? Where will he take the Middle East and United States? His rivals in Israel are warning that he is not concerned with a ceasefire unless it is preceded by a victory. They are warning that he is costing Israel too many losses. His opponents have failed to…

Ghassan Charbel