Commentaries

The first days following major incidents are often filled with questions and intense emotions. Grief and anger take hold, expressions of solidarity spread, and public attention turns to investigations and the search for answers. Gradually, everyday life begins to regain its usual rhythm, and the incident recedes from the center of public attention. Yet what remains afterward can be just…

The bloodshed at the church in Hammoud, Karak, is still fresh in our minds. The pain of families who lost their loved ones is felt by all Jordanians, those who gathered to say goodbye to someone they loved could never have imagined that their prayers would end in tragedy, condemning this crime and offering condolences is not enough. we must…

A few days ago, armed terrorists opened fire on mourners at Hammoud Church in Karak Governorate, killing nine people and wounding dozens more. This was not the first time the governorate had faced a terrorist attack. In December 2016, it witnessed the Karak Castle attack, for which ISIS claimed responsibility. The latest atrocity provoked widespread anger and condemnation among Jordanians,…

The Middle East is entering a new phase of shifting power dynamics, in which military calculations, electoral considerations, and geopolitical transformations are increasingly intertwined amid escalating tensions between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other. The prospect of renewed war is no longer tied exclusively to Iran’s nuclear program or mutual security threats. It…

The proposal by Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, to assign security and administrative responsibility for parts of the West Bank to Jordan sparked a dispute with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In an interview with Besheva, Lieberman argued that the Palestinian Authority was no longer capable of administering these areas and that Israel needed to find another party…

The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria issued a new statement on the occasion of the fifth ordinary session of its Shura Council—the second such meeting since the liberation—held, in the statement’s words, amid “highly complex regional and international circumstances.”[1] The statement contained sixteen points: ten addressing external affairs and six focused on domestic issues, although several carried messages directed simultaneously at…

Executive Summary      Morocco’s legislative elections are set to take place on 23 September 2026 in a context markedly different from that of the 2021 elections. Inflation fell from 6.6% in 2022 to 0.8% in 2025, yet this decline has not dispelled public perceptions of eroding purchasing power. Unemployment stands at around 13%, rising to 37.2% among young people. The…

A few days ago, Al-Umma Party — formerly the Islamic Action Front (IAF) — elected Muath al-Khawaldeh as its new secretary-general, in the party’s first leadership elections since changing its name. The election comes at a fundamentally different moment from previous leadership transitions, following the legal ban on the Muslim Brotherhood, with which the party was historically associated and which…

The Russian-Ukraine war in 2022 exposed how structurally vulnerable the resilience of Italy’s energy security apparatus was to external shocks. Near total dependence on Russian gas forced compelled Rome to rethink its strategic autonomy, a process the European Union only made legally binding nearly four years later, through the agreement banning all imports of Russian gas by autumn 2027. Yet…

What is happening today in the West Bank and Jerusalem may appear to be simply an escalation of the familiar policies pursued by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government: expanding settlements, undermining the Palestinian presence, altering realities in Jerusalem, and using legislative, administrative, security and political tools to impose new facts on the ground. Yet such a reading risks overlooking a more consequential…