Seeing the Gaza War through Arab Eyes
Israel wasn’t the only country caught off guard.
October 30, 2023
Israel wasn’t the only country caught off guard.
Last week, Queen Rania of Jordan—a country largely dependent on Israel for its national security—gave a sickening interview with the highly sympathetic Christiane Amanpour of CNN. Yet her opinions are not necessarily typical of thinking in Arab capitals. Ghaith al-Omari, writing shortly after Hamas’s attack on Israel, provides some crucial analysis:
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