How Gaza war has exposed fault lines among Israeli elites
A seemingly strange choice was made by a correspondent for Israel’s Channel 12 this month, when he decided to publish a humiliating video of a relatively large number of Israeli soldiers coming under attack...
Ankara aims to strengthen ties with Cairo through NATO
When NATO launched a military intervention in Libya in 2011, Egypt adopted a cautious stance because of concerns about the scope and intentions of the action. Cairo viewed the alliance’s intervention as...
Pope Francis’ lessons must guide the Middle East
No tribute, obituary or testament can do justice to one of the greatest leaders of our time. Pope Francis has passed, but his embodiment of Saint Francis of Assisi’s humility, service and...
What it means for Europe to fend for itself
The US-led global order as we have known it is gone. As the tectonic plates of geopolitics continue to shift beneath us, the challenge for Europe is to keep its institutions alive...
World leaders sadly ignored Pope Francis’ pleas
Pope Francis was the first pontiff to come to the Arabian Gulf. During his historic visit in February 2019, he held a Mass in Abu Dhabi before tens of thousands of devoted...
Israeli army is more divided than ever
If ever there has been a national institution that is revered in Israel and has the power to unite the country, at least its Jewish population, it is the Israeli army.Nevertheless, no...
Egypt’s three options in the Sudan civil war
Sudan’s civil war reached a turning point in March when the Sudanese regular army regained control of the presidential palace in the heart of Khartoum after months of fierce battles with the...
Time for the Gulf to let the train take the strain
Some decades ago, in a previous existence, I was required to make regular trips from my newspaper’s head office in London more than 500 kilometers north to our outpost in Glasgow in...
Iran has a chance to have the Arab Gulf on its side
The nuclear negotiations with Iran today are different from those of 2015. The talks with the Obama administration were limited to the uranium enrichment reduction in return for removal of sanctions. Today,...
Lebanon remembers a war that never truly ended
On April 13, the Lebanese marked the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the civil war — a conflict that profoundly reshaped the nation’s modern history. While the infamous Ain El-Remmaneh bus...