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Winning peace in Lebanon is harder than winning war

Resolving the conflict in Lebanon necessitates taking into account its long history and new geopolitical realities.

Smoke rises from shells fired by British made Centurion tank moving on road near Bazariya a town on hillside overlooking Lebanon's port city of Tyre March 20, 1978 (AP Photo/Saris)

Israel wants to close the circle of history in Gaza

In 1948, Gaza became a haven for refugees. Now it may face the same fate as other depopulated Palestinian lands.

A mother and her children are seen at tent city in the Gaza area of Egyptian-occupied Palestine where about 216,000 Arab refugees live in worn-out tents, July 23, 1949. The woman is teaching her daughter how to carry a water jug on her head. (AP Photo/S. Swinton)

Israel’s ‘Plan B’ for the Gaza Strip

The Israeli army can’t carry out mass expulsion of Gaza’s population by force, so it is making it unliveable.

Palestinians try to collect usable items under the rubbles of a building, demolished following the Israeli attacks, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on December 12

Are China and the US listening to each other?

Recent high-level visits from the US to China are a good sign. But the US must actually listen to Chinese concerns too.

US China

Bezalel Smotrich’s ancestors would have told him he was lying

The Israeli minister dismissed the existence of a Palestinian identity. His grandfather’s family would know better.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich

France, football, colonialism: Take the best, leave the rest

The colonial era may have ended, but French extractive policies in its former colonies have not.

Kylian Mbappe

Soleimani and the weight of history

Soleimani is the product of the same historical events that have curbed popular sovereignty and democracy in the region.

Qassem Soleimani

The Palestinian refugees and the ‘monologue of the century’

Or why the analogy between Palestinian displacement and the Jewish ‘exodus’ from Arab countries is misleading.

Palestinian refugees

Torpedoing Africa, and then complaining about ‘migration’

European countries are still shaping the lives of millions of Africans, determining both their present and future.

CFA op-ed photo AP

To stop migration, stop the abuse of Africa’s resources

Europe should tackle migration not by deploying troops, but by curbing economic abuse and destablisation.

libya migrant detention center - Reuters