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Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh In the aftermath of the events unfolding since October 7, 2023, a critical question looms large over Palestine: Who represents the Palestinians now? It is a question that demands our immediate attention, resonating with the internal struggles facing Palestine today. The desperate attempt to …

Alon Ben-Mair The unprecedented and unfathomable savagery that was inflicted by Hamas on 1,400 innocent Israeli civilians and off-duty soldiers has shaken to the core every human being with a conscience. Beyond that, it has also rattled the prevailing conditions between Israel and the Palestinians, making it impossible …

It took Arab and Muslim leaders 35 days of war to call an “emergency” meeting to discuss Israel’s assault on Gaza. Their limited ability to influence developments was on public display when they finally gathered this weekend in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh. So were the differences that raised …

Denis MacShane Destination Taiwan? Why Emperor Xi could be tempted to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army in 2027 with an invasion. A decade ago, in one of those global futurology scenarios that foreign correspondents love to create, Martin Walker, who had …

A second Trump administration would likely lead to an escalatory and unpredictable approach toward the “Hermit Kingdom.” It is tempting to presume that the return of Donald Trump to the White House in 2025 would revive the “bromance” between Trump and Kim Jong-un and spark renewed tensions within …

Dan Blumenthal International politics is now defined by a world at war. The United States is consumed with a stalemate in Ukraine’s resistance to Russian aggression and what promises to be a long war by Israel to eradicate the terror group Hamas and its affiliates. This Middle East …

David Hale A return to the maximum pressure strategy against Iran is necessary to impair China’s regional influence. Great power competition over the Middle East is as old as history, as testified by the imperial ruins and lines on maps left over millennia. They are monuments to how …

Jacob Helibrun As former New York Times editor Barry Gewen observed in his recent book, The Inevitability Of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger And His World, “The lessons he has been trying to impart may not be to the liking of most people, but they are more important than ever …

Eng. Saleem Al-Batayneh The questions loom large in the current context: When will the Arabs become Zionized? A phenomenon once thought inconceivable is now unfolding, where the Palestinian-Zionist conflict is seemingly isolated from its Arab surroundings. A term once foreign, “Arab Zionist,” has entered the discourse, reshaping perspectives …