Salem Alketbi

A new executive order issued by the President of the United States will allow for strict penalties to be imposed against states that engage in hostage-taking.

Today, Israel shows that targeting terrorist leaders is no longer limited to Gaza or nearby areas. It has become a policy that crosses borders.

The people of the region deserve life, while Hamas and its leaders deserve nothing more than to be left alone to embrace the death they so adore.

Defeat can be transformed into a heroic event through the complete control of information and by preventing any independent voice from telling the truth.

The Arab media’s overwhelming focus on Gaza, portrayed as the ultimate test of Arab commitment to justice and freedom. ignores crises in Yemen, Sudan, Syria, and more.

Hamas faces not a choice of resilience but the inevitability of disintegration and death under the banner of so-called martyrdom.

The Dead Hand system first emerged in the public eye in the 1980s, as an automatic retaliation mechanism, guaranteeing a nuclear strike even if Russia’s leadership were destroyed.

For more than 70 years, the narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict has been cemented as the ultimate symbol of historical grievance – a renewable pretext for a multitude of domestic failures.

The Islamic Republic is eroding in Iran, not geographically, but in terms of its influence and dominance. Now it looks more like a crisis-ridden state burning down.

Israel has sent an unequivocal message that its reach will extend to anyone daring to threaten it.