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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Hanna Saleh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Nabil Amr
Camp David II ended in utter failure in 2000. However, what concerns us most, here, is how extremists’ campaigns undercut the talks and contributed to that failure. In addition to the fact that they were held during the last year of Clinton’s term, both Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat were outdoing one another with their displays of weakness and haste to achieve, in one fell swoop, outcomes that suit one side but not the other.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Hanna Saleh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Nabil Amr
Were the Lebanese really liberated on the 25th of May twenty-five years ago? The official answer has not changed: yes. The commemoration of this occasion and its elevation into a national holiday, “Resistance and Liberation Day” was born of this answer. The residents of the region that had been occupied returned to their towns and villages after the Israeli army’s withdrawal, and the state and its institutions reestablished a nominal presence there.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hanna Saleh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Nabil Amr |Sam Menassa
In mid-June, the Lebanese authorities will begin receiving weapons handed over by Palestinian factions operating in refugee camps, starting with the camps in Beirut and its southern suburbs. By implementing this decision, Lebanon will end a dangerous chapter of history that began in the aftermath of the Six-Day War in 1967.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Nabil Amr |Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel
For fourteen years, the people of Syria waged a struggle to topple the criminal Bashar al-Assad, defeat Iran and its proxies (foremost among them Hezbollah), and break Russia’s link with Assad. They have been on the receiving end of Israeli strikes both before and after Assad’s fall. The new Syrian administration led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa has not given Israel a pretext for these assaults.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Nabil Amr |Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel |Mohammed al-Rumaihi
The Palestinians, through their legitimate representatives, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian National Authority, have decided to disarm. In full cooperation with the legitimate Lebanese authorities, they are seeking to hand the Palestinian factions’ arms in the camps to the state, bringing them under Lebanese sovereignty and the rule of law. Although it came late, this was a sensible decision.
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1 month ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hanna Saleh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Jeanna Smialek |Nabil Amr
The most dangerous impediment to the Lebanese authorities’ current efforts to restore the state is that the country sits atop a dangerous minefield of “zombie” weapons and “zombie” banks. The camp of illegitimate arms intimidates rivals by clinging to narratives that defend its maintenance.
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1 month ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Jeanna Smialek |Nabil Amr |Hazem Saghieh
There are several ways to interpret what we saw from the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. However, one thing we are sure of is that Trump knows exactly what he wants and how to get it, and he pursues it relentlessly.
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1 month ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Jeanna Smialek |Nabil Amr |Hazem Saghieh |Abdulrahman al-Rashed
European Union officials are taking a two-part approach to President Trump’s unfolding trade war, offering to slash tariffs on American-made cars and industrial products even as they prepare to retaliate imminently with wide-ranging levies. Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU’s executive branch, said on Monday that the 27-nation bloc would be willing to employ a “zero-for-zero” approach on products including cars, eliminating tariffs on the goods if the United States did the same.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Nabil Amr |Hazem Saghieh |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Sam Menassa
Since Israel, and us with it, began to be plagued by the meteoric rise of Benjamin Netanyahu, there has been a consensus around his status as the king of Israel. This is a title that even the state’s founders and its historic leaders were never given. Netanyahu has broken every record in terms of longevity at the top. He holds the record for the longest tenure as prime minister in Israeli history.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Hanna Saleh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Nabil Amr
The events that transpired on the Syrian coast were triggered by a terrorist operation at the hands of "remnants" of the deposed regime. However, it quickly morphed into something else, something much bigger that raises a series of pressing questions about our lives and our politics: How can we deal with grudges and vengeful tendencies? How should we approach the social contract in a pluralistic society?
