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Apr 28, 2023, 8:27 PM

Iraqi Kurdistan: The Unfinished Business of Democracy in a Tribal Society Model

Abstract The Kurdish nation is the largest stateless ethnic minority in the Middle East. This group has a population of approximately 30 million people scattered throughout their historical 392,000 km2 territory. Today, this land is divided between Turkey, Syria,...

Apr 19, 2023, 5:10 AM

The Middle East: A Fragile Region

After World War I, the British Empire and France divided up a large part of the Ottoman territories in the Middle East. With the approval of the League of Nations, the chosen formula was the establishment of several mandates....

Apr 18, 2023, 10:06 AM

The Democratization Process in The Middle East

In 1881, the great Muslim reformer Muhammad Abduh published in the Egyptian gazette “Al-Waqāʾiʿ al-Miṣriyya” an editorial that could have been written today. Reflecting on the democratic system of government, he gave as an example two countries that he...

Apr 17, 2023, 2:13 PM

Why The Middle East Gravitates Towards Authoritarianism?

Since the first Gulf War, the Arab Countries of the Middle East and the Maghreb have experienced a succession of upheavals which, everywhere else, would have destabilized many powers. Yet most managed to maintain archaic structures that neither the...

Apr 16, 2023, 7:05 AM

Why Has Not Peace Arrived Yet?

Impartially answering this question is complex. In my personal case, even more. Therefore, I hope to be able to transmit a real perspective from an optic that in the West it is not so common to hear about. Thus,...

Nov 14, 2020, 11:34 PM

Mossad: Periphery Doctrine and Unique Alliances

Between 1950 and 1975, the State of Israel was in a vastly hostile region. Facing the convergent Arabic rhetoric of “expelling the Jews towards the Mediterranean”, Israel was in both a militarily and politically dangerous situation. Under this scenario,...

Oct 29, 2019, 6:17 PM

Israel’s Links with Basque-Catalan Nationalism (4)

Catalunya-Israel: Jordi Pujol, Catalunya’s Nationalism and “Non-Official Relations” Jordi Pujol and the Jews: The origins of the relation Although Catalunya is not an independent state, non-formal relations between the regional Government of Catalunya (Generalitat) and the Government of Israel have...

Oct 27, 2019, 6:38 PM

Israel’s Links with Basque-Catalan Nationalism (3)

Between January 1974 and May 1977-one month before the first democratic elections after Franco’s death-Euskadi’s Government in exile and the BNP requested and obtained military training from two Israeli captains belonging to elite units. The contacts were made by...

Oct 25, 2019, 5:32 PM

Israel’s Links with Basque-Catalan Nationalism (2)

Euskadi-Israel: A relationship of military training, politics and ETA’s empathy for zionism During the Nazi occupation of France, the Basque resistance, who were the ones controlling the crossings passages, in coordination with the allies managed to evacuate many Jews through...

Oct 22, 2019, 10:33 PM

Israel’s Links with Basque-Catalan Nationalism (1)

Relations and contacts between Euskadi and Israel, and Catalunya and Israel are old. Even though the Basque and Catalonian Left-wing parties are today Pro-Palestinians, Center and Right Wing Basque and Catalonian nationalists have always been Pro-Israel, and they have...

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About Me

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez is an American-Israeli who completed a B.S. in Neuroscience with a Minor in Israel Studies and Pre-Med Track at The American University (Washington, District of Columbia) and a bioethics course at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts). After his undergraduate studies, he went on to become a sergeant in the Israel Defense Forces special forces unit 888 and obtained two M.A. degrees: International Geostrategy and Jihadist Terrorism at INISEG (Madrid, Spain), and Applied Economics at UNED (Madrid, Spain). Currently, he is a rising senior medical student completing clinical rotations while doing a third master’s degree in Security and Intelligence Studies at Bellevue University (Bellevue, Nebraska) and serving in the United States Army Reserve as an OCS candidate. Jose speaks eight languages, has written more than 130 opinion articles, and enjoys Chopin’s and Debussy’s music.

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