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Abdulrahman Al-Rashed

Abdulrahman Al-Rashed is a veteran columnist. He is the former general manager of Al Arabiya news channel, and former editor-in-chief of Asharq Al-Awsat.

Twitter: @aalrashed

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October 7: Between foolishness and treason

On the ground, Yahya Sinwar has achieved for Israeli extremists what hard-line Israeli leaders like Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir and even Ariel Sharon could not. Sharon, who withdrew from Gaza in 2005, dismantled settlements and handed the territory over to the Palestinian Authority.

October 08, 2024

What does Iran have in store for Hezbollah?

The course of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon will reshape the Iranian-Israeli conflict. How?

Israel has left Tehran with few options. Let us not forget that Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 crushed the Palestinian Fatah as an armed struggle movement.

October 01, 2024

Israel has shown ideology is no match for technology

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. “That is why it fought us (Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) simultaneously.”

September 21, 2024