Marwan Bishara

Marwan Bishara

  • From hubris to humiliation: the 10 hours that shocked Israel

    From hubris to humiliation: the 10 hours that shocked Israel

    Hamas’s leader in Gaza Strip, Yahya al-Sinwar, who spent more than 2 decades in Israeli prison, was released in prisoner exchange

  • When will it be enough?

    Just three days after it assassinated Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh, Israel had decided to double down on its criminal mischief. The orders were...

  • Dirty wars

    Dirty wars

    Who is winning the war in Ukraine depends on who is doing the talking. Predictably, Russia says that it is winning as planned, while the United...

  • A brutal murder

    I am not ready to speak about Shireen in the past tense. Not today. Perhaps not ever. Shireen has covered the cruelty of the Israeli occupation for...

  • Civil violence

    The Global South is divided over who bears the responsibility for the Ukraine tragedy in the Global North. Many blame Russia for its imperial...

  • Divided on America

    “In terms of a Cold War… you have the vast majority of the rest of the world in total opposition to what is doing… It’s going to be a cold...

  • Europe in the middle

    After months of military build-up and weeks of intensive diplomacy, the crisis in Ukraine is at a critical juncture. It may turn towards a military...

  • Exposing Israel

    Last week, the London-based Amnesty International joined the New York-based Human Rights Watch and the Jerusalem-based B’Tselem in calling...

  • Biden’s gambit

    As US President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda ‘build back better’ faces major challenges in Congress, he seems to have taken his schema to the...

  • Biden’s dilemmas

    After a strong start that included rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and World Health Organization, both of which Trump abandoned, President Joe...

  • American (un)civil war

    There are probably nicer ways to say it, but when I read that in a 2021 national poll, 46 percent of Americans believed that ‘another civil war is...

  • Imagination and courage

    There is much to lament, much to loathe and more to dread in these difficult and uncertain times. And yet, given the choice between fear and...

  • Nostalgia for cold war

    Over the past 10 years, American and European reactions to the Arab Spring have demonstrated why Western democracies cannot be trusted with the...

  • The art of deception

    Israeli hyperbole is as old as the Israeli state. It is tautological, serving as the raison d’etre and modus operandi of Israel, the garrison...

  • An unfolding tragedy

    The Israeli occupation, repression, disruption, discrimination, property confiscation or home demolition are a decades-long daily affair. Likewise,...

  • A grand strategy

    The way forward for the new Biden administration cannot be the way back. Harking back to the Obama era and stacking his administration with...

  • The belated dawn

    The United States presidential elections were supposed to produce a sweeping victory for Joe Biden and a decisive win for the Democrats. The vote...

  • Toxic fallout

    Ever since United States President Donald Trump tasked his boy genius, Jared Kushner, with bringing peace to the Middle East, he has been a man on a...

  • Farce, fraud, fury

    The Trump administration has finally lifted the curtains on the final act of its Middle East diplomacy by revealing the long-awaited, ahem, "peace...

  • Trump trio

    Over the past two years, the Trump administration has launched an all-out diplomatic assault on the Palestinians, while preparing a new initiative...