Bakir Oweida

Bakir Oweida

Targeting Makkah… An Old Aim Renewed

It is neither frivolous nor without a long-range strategic aim that the decision-makers in the Iranian operations room directing Yemen's Houthi militias should decide to target Makkah. No; there are several aims behind a matter of this gravity. And there are reasons- which can be placed within the…

A Starmer Error That Laid Bare More Errors

An impartial observer, independent and not affiliated with any party or political current, may be uncertain what position to take on Keir Starmer: to join those blaming him, to call for the British prime minister’s resignation, or to feel sympathy for him in the face of a highly complex predicament…

Realism and the Surreal in Gaza’s Tragedy  

Everything our eyes have seen and continue to see, and everything our ears have heard and still hear, since the day after what was dubbed the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” attests to the suffering of the Gaza Strip’s cities and villages. This tragedy has only exacerbated as time went by, growing like a snowball…

Gaza… An Israeli Hiroshima?

The Israeli army, given its war machine's extraordinary destructive capacities, can crush the Gaza Strip in its entirety. If the Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu wants, he could fulfill the hope once publicly voiced by his late rival, Israeli Labor Party leader Yitzhak Rabin, to wake up one day and…