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Where does Washington stand on Gaza’s future?

  • The collapse of the temporary Gaza truce was expected, although some who do not like to acknowledge the facts were optimistic about a near-miracle, while the time for miracles has passed. However, the glaring truth indicated from the beginning was the need of both sides in this unbalanced war ...
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When the strategy to displace Gazans was revealed

  • We have experienced a handful of days of respite from the killing machine. However, between the optimism regarding a further extension of this temporary pause and the pessimism in anticipation of a more cruel and horrific round of bloodshed, negotiators are seeking to make progress and pretende...
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The tango in Gaza and its destructive repercussions

  • It has been around a month and a half since the Oct. 7 operation in the Gaza Envelope; skepticism is increasing and the risks are accumulating.  Setting to one side the bravado shown by Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who have talked about changing maps and clai...
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The appointment of a non-presiding president in Lebanon

  • In the past 48 hours, the Lebanese people have eagerly awaited the disclosure of the “appointment” file of a president who does not preside … of a republic that is no longer existent … on the land of a defunct “Lebanese state.” In the last two weeks, the chances of financial expert and previou...
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The lessons of Fouad Chehab’s Lebanon rescue mission

  • Amid the presidential vacuum in Lebanon and against the backdrop of armies’ experiences of power in the Arab world and even across the Third World, some Lebanese recall a phenomenon called Fouad Chehab. This man, who passed away 50 years ago — on April 25, 1973 — at the age of 71, embodied num...
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Thoughts and memories of the Jews of Lebanon and the Near East

  • In November 1994, I published an eight-part series of articles about the history of the Jews in the Arab world in Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News. That series was appreciated by many but criticized by some, including a veteran Arab journalist who wondered why I wrote somethin...
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Clear choices facing Iran

  • The change of occupants in the White House following the 2016 US presidential elections has affected the whole world, but for Iran specifically it has truly been significant. Today, mass demonstrations on the streets of major Iranian cities coincide with escalating US sanctions. Last week, san...
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What the Sweida Druze mean to Daesh employers

  • The Druze may be unlucky for being the most loyal minority to an identity facing an unknown future. They are perhaps the Arabs’ Arabs, and the Middle Eastern community that has never felt naturally at ease except with its Arab identity. Even before the emergence of Arabism in its contemporary p...
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A natural end to the two-state illusion

  • The passing by Israel’s Knesset (Parliament) of a law defining Israel as a Jewish state, thus turning the Arab minority into second-class citizens, was expected. All signs — whether local, regional or global — were pointing in that direction. Even the well-chosen diplomatic jargon that appeared...
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After the elections, what kind of government for what kind of Lebanon?

  • My advice to anyone attempting to analyse Lebanon’s latest parliamentary elections, without taking into consideration regional and international developments, is to look for something more worthwhile. Since the period of fake entente that preceded the current period of de facto occupation, it i...
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