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- What will our region and indeed the world look like once Israel concludes its war in Gaza? The statistics coming out of the beleaguered, narrow strip of land that is home to 2.3 million Palestinians — 70 percent of whom are refugees from previous wars — are staggering. In the first 36 days of t...
- No one knows how Israel’s war on Gaza, which is now in its second month, will end and what the final civilian death toll will be. But when the guns finally go silent and the dust settles, the Middle East and indeed the rest of the world will wake up to a new reality. Whatever happens to Hamas w...
- It is difficult to imagine how Israel can declare, and relish, a victory after a three-week war against Gaza. What would that victory look like? Would it be the destruction of Hamas’s military wing and the killing or capitulation of its top leaders? The cost for both Israel’s military and the G...
- Regardless of where one stands on the Israeli war on Gaza, when the dust finally settles on the killing fields, the world will not be the same. The deadly Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants on southern Israel and what has followed, in the form of a frenzied Israeli reaction, has polarized the wor...
- The wave of sympathy and solidarity from Western leaders that Israel received after Saturday’s surprise attack by hundreds of Hamas fighters on neighboring settlements, military bases and towns has now been offset by a shift in global public opinion. Israel says it has declared war on Hamas, bu...
- Jordan’s delicate rapprochement process with its northern neighbor, Syria, seems to have suddenly stopped. Last month in New York, King Abdullah voiced his frustration with President Bashar Assad’s inability to stop the smuggling of drugs from his country into Jordan. Speaking at the Middle Eas...
- Benjamin Netanyahu, once the golden boy of the Israeli hard right, appears to have been stripped of his Midas touch. A sly orator, a populist manipulator and a rabble-rouser, the 73-year-old has now lost his flair for grandstanding. At the UN General Assembly last week, speaking to a near-empty...
- Last week’s deadly deluge that hit the eastern Libyan port city of Derna, killing thousands and leaving many more homeless, was brought about by a natural disaster that caught Libyans unawares. But while the uncommon Mediterranean hurricane that hit eastern Libya did the initial damage, it also...
- After almost five months of bitter fighting in Sudan, the question today is not if the country is hurtling toward an all-out civil war but if anything can be done to stop it. Last month, the UN said that the two warring factions were plunging the country into civil war, as more than 3 million c...
- This month marks the 30th anniversary of the historic signing of the Oslo I Accord in Washington between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, after the two sides recognized each other and following secret talks in Oslo, Norway. While, so far, there has been little mention of the si...
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