Editorials

JST publisher Ahmed Charai has a message for the brave protestors in Iran.

Some media commentators were quick to dismiss Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting this week with President Donald J. Trump, depicting it as driven by domestic politics, legal pressures, or media optics. But that is a mistake. This meeting comes at a time of profound regional fragility and converging pressures.  On one front lies Iran’s aggressive […]

It is time to confront one of the most dangerous illusions of our time: the belief that the International Stabilization Force for Gaza can bring order, reconstruction, or peace without dismantling Hamas.

Thank you President Trump. Thank you for understanding what so many refused to confront. Thank you for doing what generations of leaders hesitated to attempt. Thank you for exposing the dark machinery that has shaped the Middle East’s tragedies for far too long. I write as someone from an Arab and Muslim country, someone who […]

In the Oval Office, power breathes in gestures as much as decrees. President Donald Trump, re-cast by history as a peacemaker, governs in broad strokes — intuitive, dynamic, and commanding. Beside him, yet never overshadowing him, stands Vice President J.D. Vance: younger, disciplined, and disarmingly direct. The chemistry between them has become one of the […]

There are moments in history when quiet determination achieves more than thunderous rhetoric. Jared Kushner belongs to that rare category of individuals whose influence stems not from spectacle, but from substance, not from noise, but from an unyielding calm that conceals immense strategic power. Kushner’s ambition is of a particular kind—disciplined, understated, and oriented toward […]

When a microphone falls silent because a voice has been cut short, the void it leaves is not only personal grief but also a summons to conscience. Charlie Kirk’s death cannot be reduced to mourning alone. It must sharpen our collective focus on the ideas and methods that make such violence possible: the doctrine of […]

In an era where symbolism often overshadows substance, the idea of awarding Donald J. Trump the Nobel Peace Prize can be dismissed as political theater. Yet such dismissal risks overlooking a complex, inconvenient truth: Trump’s Middle East policy produced one of the most significant realignments in regional geopolitics in generations. From the crossroads of tradition […]

President Trump, I write to you not with hesitation but with urgency. Your leadership transformed the Middle East. The Abraham Accords, your firm support for Israel, and your uncompromising stance toward terror made peace possible when many believed it was impossible. You did not follow the tired formulas of appeasement. You lead with principle and […]

When President Donald Trump arrived in the Gulf, it was not just another diplomatic appearance. It was a signal. A bold assertion that the shape of a new Middle East is being drafted—not in smoke-filled backrooms, but in the ambitious visions of capitals determined to move beyond war and resentment. Trump’s visit was transactional on […]

Two men, two survivors. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu – so different in backgrounds, so similar in instinct. Trump came from business. Netanyahu came from politics. Trump stormed into Washington with sheer force. Netanyahu became a master of survival in Jerusalem, navigating decades of war, diplomacy, and domestic pressure. Trump’s “America First” doctrine never promised sentiment, […]

While America has long focused on defeating terrorist networks like al-Qaeda and ISIS, it has largely overlooked the ideological infrastructure that gave birth to them. At the heart of that ecosystem lies the Muslim Brotherhood—a transnational Islamist movement that has inspired, influenced, and in many cases directly spawned the world’s most dangerous jihadist organizations. Today, […]