Ahmed Charai

Simple human joy of victory: Arabs and Jews celebrate side-by-side with no one staging it for the world’s cameras.

Doubters and critics have thrown shade on democracy for centuries. Yet, these two elections in two different lands show that democratic institutions can endure in the face of bitter differences.

At the center of the coalition needs to be a genuine leader, visionary and man of action. Can the leader be found and the coalition forged?

The Palestinian Authority and many in the Palestinian public see terrorism as legitimate resistance.

No Hollywood producer could have made a war epic to top Zelensky’s selfie video from the heart of Kyiv. “We are here,” he said. “We are in Kyiv. We protect Ukraine.”

Sometimes things that suddenly seem normal tell you how the world has changed.

For two decades, the Taliban have been biding their time in Pakistani madrassas, debating, arguing, planning. In those long years, they learned no moderation.

Among the many contentious issues the new government now faces, two in particular will test its ability to forge compromise across a fractured ideological landscape.

The new Israeli government will focus on restoring Israel’s traditional approach of seeking bipartisan American support after years of tension with American Democrats.

So far the Biden administration has struck the right tone. Yet even as the remarks are necessary and welcome, there is much more positive good that the administration can accomplish.