New Realities in an Ancient Land

Wissam Yafi's Blog presents opinions on the most pressing issues in his native Lebanon and the Arab World and possible solutions to salient problems.

Monday, January 15, 2024

Only the ICJ Can Save the Holy Land Now

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The world witnessed an extraordinary event last week. South Africa presented a genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Ju...
Friday, December 8, 2023

Winning the Peace in the Holy Land Might Require Imposition

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It is finally beginning to dawn on many military strategists in the West that not only might Israel not win its war on Gaza, but it might ou...
Sunday, December 3, 2023

Land for Peace is Still Paying Dividends. Why Not in Palestine?

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In the spring of 2000, Israel still occupied a large part of my homeland Lebanon’s southern territory, following its invasion in 1982. Local...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Israeli Self-Defense or Self-Attack?

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The explosive report published this past Saturday in the Haaretz pinpointed the blame on the Israeli army itself for bombing and killing its...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

How Israel just lost the war ... to a Palestinian hospital!

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Over the past few days and weeks, Israel has been trying to convince the world of the narrative that Palestinian hospitals in Gaza are nothi...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

How Many Babies Truly Perished

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In the first days of the war, as global media outlets started broadcasting the horrifying events, news emerged of 40 decapitated Israeli bab...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Federalization or Balkanization? Lebanese Federalism Addresses the Wrong Problem with the Wrong Solution

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"The tragedy of the Lebanese federalists is not only in their diagnosis of the wrong problem but in providing the wrong solution. Leban...
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Wissam S. Yafi
Reston, VA, United States
Wissam Yafi obtained an MPA/ID degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 2001 having studied in its first cohort under Jeffrey Sachs, Dany Rodrik, Lant Pritchett, among others. Since graduation, Mr. Yafi has been writing on Middle East economic development, geopolitics, and technology policy having traveled extensively throughout the region and consulted with leaders, policy makers, and academicians. He has published two books: Inevitable Democracy in the Arab World (2011): New Realities in an Ancient Land, a book which looks at the dynamics forcing change in the Middle East. Also, A Decade of Turmoil and Hope (2013), which discusses the Arab region and Lebanon from the turn of the century to the Arab Spring. As well as Fina, a utopian science fiction novel about a futuristic Lebanon. Mr. Yafi continuously lectures and publishes Op-Eds and commentaries.
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