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4 days ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Eyad Abu Shakra |Ghassan Charbel |Tariq Al-Homayed |Hazem Saghieh
The ongoing exchange of missiles, and the accompanying psychological and intelligence warfare, seems like a foregone conclusion, because all the supposed dividing lines in the Israeli-Iranian conflict have collapsed. These lines collapsed as the possibility of saving the Middle East, alongside the United States and Israel, from an ominous unknown began to vanish.
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5 days ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Ghassan Charbel |Tariq Al-Homayed |Hazem Saghieh |Abdulrahman al-Rashed
Unprecedented scenes in this terrifying region. In the scorching Middle Eastern ring, three great boxers face off over patches of blood and lakes of rubble. The people of the region woke up to the news that US bombers had struck three Iranian nuclear facilities at dawn. The Israelis woke up to destruction they had never seen since the founding of the state in 1948.
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6 days ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Hazem Saghieh |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Amir Taheri
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, the region has been constantly criticizing the United States for allegedly having neglected “the day after” in Iraq. It seems the US and the West have become convinced that this neglect had been a mistake, and they now repeat them in the context of the war between Israel and Iran.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Amir Taheri |Hanna Saleh
Poland is emblematic of the fate of weak countries surrounded by strong ones, which may pay the price of the wars of the strong as well as their agreement. It has been partitioned three times in its history, and, for years, it disappeared from the map. Mind you, a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was formed in 1385, and it was a formidable and powerful state in the 16th century.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hanna Saleh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Nadim Koteich |Hazem Saghieh
In mid-1964, President Fouad Chehab was counting the days till his presidency ended. The coalition of parties that supported him had a majority of nearly two-thirds in Parliament, and these deputies visited him to explain that they intended to amend the Constitution so that he could be re-elected for a second term. Chehab listened to them defend this proposal but rejected the offer. He had lost any trust that he may have had in the sectarian political class.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Nadim Koteich |Hazem Saghieh |Eyad Abu Shakra
Yesterday, this newspaper published a piece by Saudi columnist Dr. Abdulghani Al-Kindi. “Why Did Israel and Iran’s Clash Surprise the Arabs?” is not merely an important column; it is a text that deserves to be shared, explained, and amplified. It’s a remarkable article about the absence of any role for the Arab- or perhaps sedated- in most of the region’s crises.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Nadim Koteich |Hazem Saghieh |Eyad Abu Shakra |Abdulrahman al-Rashed
For at least a year now, Iran and Israel have been fighting a direct conflict, after having waged a shadow war for decades. This is more than a regional power struggle; what we are witnessing is an existential war between two regimes as traditional pillars of deterrence erode, creating trajectories that are difficult to foresee. 1. Controlled EscalationThe confrontation has yet to escalate into a full-scale war. Israel continues to target nuclear and military facilities, as well as supply chains.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Eyad Abu Shakra |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Ghassan Charbel
It might be safe to say that the relationship between states and armed militias might benefit from revisions of a highly consequential episode of modern Arab history: the Jordanian civil war of 1970–1971.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Ross Douthat |Eyad Abu Shakra |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Hazem Saghieh
Must any pair of would-be great men of history always find a path to conflict? Ask Caesar and Pompey, Octavian and Antony, Lennon and McCartney. But the specific thing they fight about is less predictable. I would not have guessed, six months ago, that Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s version of the Battle of Actium would be fought over the budget deficit.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Eyad Abu Shakra |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Hazem Saghieh |Sam Menassa
What links the ongoing rift between US President Donald Trump and his “fleeting ally,” billionaire Elon Musk, the visible divergences between US positions and the policies of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, and the looming clouds over the approach of the US and Israel to Iran? This question deserves serious reflection if we overcome highly costly illusions. There is no doubt that the Trump-Musk dispute has dangerous implications, regardless of who is right or wrong.
