Dear Congress – an open letter
Don’t tamper with the Iran deal, build on it The Trump administration’s approach to the Iran deal is problematic as it is taken out of the context of the multiple conflicts…
Will the Palestinians ever play their cards right?
“…what is critical here is that by engaging Israel in a process of reconciliation, the Palestinians can strengthen the hands of the Israeli opposition parties who will then be in a stronger…
The Iraqi Kurds’ independence is decades overdue
Unsurprisingly, the four countries that oppose Kurdish independence are the worst offenders of Kurdish human rights. They have systematically and ruthlessly oppressed their Kurdish minority, which left an indelible mark of…
Is America Still A Beacon Of Light To Other Nations?
We do not need President Trump to tell us that he can make America great again. America is already great. The problem is that we are squandering our greatness by pursuing foreign…
The US has to accept North Korea as a nuclear power
US must now focus on diplomatic means to prevent North Korea from completing the development of a deliverable miniaturised nuclear warhead on an ICBM that would put the US and its…
An open letter to President Trump
I find it extremely hard to call you “President Trump” because sadly for America, you neither act like a president nor speak like one. You neither have the moral authority that a…
Syria: a testament to international moral bankruptcy
What happened to the sentiment of “never again” that was universally embraced in the wake of World War II to prevent calamities such as this from occurring? How low will the moral…
Ending Iraq’s humanitarian crisis
It is time to end the Iraqi tragedy. Much of the healing and prospects for a better and more promising future is in the hands of the Iraqi people themselves –…
Gaza – a disaster in the making
What is Netanyahu thinking? It has been ten years since Hamas defeated the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and assumed control over the territory. Today, the socio-economic conditions in Gaza are so horrendous…
Afghanistan: a morally corrupting war
Afghanistan: A Morally Corrupting War Sixteen years have passed and we are still fighting a war in Afghanistan. It was necessary to invade Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda following 9/11, but once it…
An open letter to Netanyahu Haven’t fifty years been enough?
Dear Mr Netanyahu Since you celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the victory of the Six Day War, did you ponder what this triumph has done to the Palestinian people and to the…
Israel’s occupation is morally indefensible
Alon Ben-Meir “Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law” I have long maintained that Israel’s occupation of…
Trump’s ‘historic’ visit to the Middle East
Much ado about nothing There was no progress in in the search for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Arab states continue to refuse to normalise relations with Israel before resolving…
Reviving Israeli-Palestinian talks now will go nowhere
Houston, we may have a problem President Trump’s upcoming visit to Israel and Palestine – during which he hopes to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process – will go nowhere unless he…
A burden to share
Israeli and Palestinian women must raise the banner of revolt On the sad occasion of the fiftieth year of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, I will be writing a series…
Strategy of force coupled with sound diplomacy
President Trump’s unexpected attack on Syria’s Shayrat airbase in response to President Assad’s Sarin gas attack on his own citizens has changed the dynamic of Syria’s civil war and potentially its eventual…
The looming end to the Western-Turkish alliance
The growing tension between Turkey and its Western allies, which was further heightened during the Obama administration, is narrowing the space for cooperation between the two sides and in fact is progressively…