World News Insights: Opinion Articles

It will be a long time before Lebanon regains its political, economic, and social health. The latest war it was dragged into, and Israel’s vindictive and disproportionate response, deepened Lebanon’s divisions. They have gone from traditional disagreements to a major rupture that will not be easy…

G7 meetings (between the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Japan) are no longer what they were, just as NATO did in the security and strategic spheres. The overarching problem is that the world has entered a period of militarization and violence. The “fifth Gaza war”…

Many people imagine that courage has but one form: a raised weapon, a booming voice, striking and thrusting. There is no doubt that these are among the manifestations of courage and valor, and on the battlefield the mettle of men is tested and the heroism of warriors revealed. Yet courage takes…

Wars end at the negotiating table, and the current US-Iran conflict will be no exception. Despite the delay in signing the “memorandum of understanding” between the two countries, a deal that President Donald Trump has described as “great” and “wonderful,” while Tehran insists it has imposed its…

Fouad Boutros was among the most brilliant foreign ministers Lebanon ever knew. Yet President Suleiman Frangieh would constantly mock his gloomy demeanor and perennial pessimism, calling him an owl that never stopped hooting bad omens. The difference between the two men was that the first was…

In Lebanon, debate is widening over the usefulness of continuing direct negotiations with Israel. One political camp rejects them outright, while another calls for withdrawing from them, arguing that they are futile in light of continued Israeli attacks and incursions and the renewed targeting of…

How can we read the Saudi position? Without resorting to the common formulas of American international relations literature, especially the concept of “hedging,” promoted by magazines, such as Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, and now almost every analysis, what is its historical context? Hedging…

I feel the weight of geography every time I visit Amman. Jordan’s fate is to adapt to it. This is difficult when your neighbor’s name is Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, or Benjamin Netanyahu, when your other neighbors happen to be Saddam Hussein, with his wars and recklessness, and then the factions,…

Understanding comes first, determination second, then decision and action. These are the steps a mature person ascends to reach the threshold of sound judgment in both deed and word. Iran is not an easy country to understand, whether in its time, its people, or its land. This has not only been…

While a large part of the world is preoccupied with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Israel continues, through fire and blood, to draw new realities on the ground in the Middle East and impose them as established facts. Forget the saying that "religion is the opium of the people," as Karl Marx claimed…

In the promised “Memorandum of Understanding” or “Framework Agreement,” there are many important commitments, all of which could serve as seeds for forthcoming geopolitical changes. However, it will not address every issue, such as the nuclear program. One of these provisions, according to leaked…

Does the expiration of the New START Treaty between Russia and the United States, the last treaty between the two principal nuclear powers aimed at limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons, represent an unprecedented opportunity for major powers on the one hand and for those enter to enter a…