World News Insights: Opinion Articles

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…

In a pre-recorded televised speech following the "pager attack" that targeted his party on Tuesday and Wednesday, Hassan Nasrallah said: "We are rational" in a broken tone. He acknowledged Israel's technological superiority, justifying this disparity by pointing to the fact that the United States,…

Saudi Arabia has reaffirmed its long-standing position on the Palestinian issue, which has remained unchanged for decades. Speaking at the opening of the Shura Council’s ninth session, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the Palestinian issue remains a top priority for the Kingdom. He…

When the late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser was asked why he was defeated in the 1967 war, he said it was due to “Israel’s air superiority over us.” That is why it fought us (Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) simultaneously. When a journalist responded, “But Egypt also has a large fleet of fighter…

The two consecutive operations carried out by Tel Aviv, involving the detonation of electronic devices used by Hezbollah members - military, security, and civilian personnel - can be described as acts of mass extermination. This is due to the high number of casualties, nearing 4,000 injured and…

A couple of weeks ago I had a visit from a schoolmate I had not seen since the “good old days” of pre-Khomeini Iran. Under the Shah he spent eight months in prison because he was supposed to be on the left. Under the mullahs he spent five years in jail on a charge of pro-monarchy activities. In…