Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

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Oct 10, 2024, 7:59 PM

China’s Phagocytosis of the South China Sea

At the beginning of the 15th century, the Chinese admiral Zheng He explored a large part of the coasts of the Indian Ocean in seven expeditions ordered by Yongle Emperor (Head of the Ming Dynasty). These voyages combined commercial...

Sep 17, 2024, 12:06 PM

The Russian Latvians Issue

In the early 1990s, the Soviet Union was a dying state. Russian bureaucrats had no real capacity to respond to the needs of “the people” they talked about so much to legitimize the policies of a communist system that...

Jan 12, 2024, 12:17 PM

Dear ‘International Court of Justice’

Dear International Court of Justice: Thank you so much for such a waste of time; for judging my country without factual arguments. That said, here I have some questions I would like you to respond to: 1-Has Myanmar's murderous regime been...

Jan 4, 2024, 2:39 AM

ETA, IRA and Hamas: A Common Terrorist Path

In this world, we should never expect to find a singular terrorist mentality for many reasons. Although terrorist groups seek to attack civilians with the excuse of “fighting and defending” their ideas, interests, and political goals, the reality is...

Dec 29, 2023, 5:14 AM

Arafat and the False Palestinian Narrative

Twenty years after his death, Palestinians continue to remember and praise Yasser Arafat as their “great leader”. Meanwhile, Israelis continue to remember him as a terrorist and, above all, the man who unleashed the Second Intifada that cost the...

Dec 20, 2023, 3:52 AM

In this demented world, wearing Israel’s flag in public is a “provocation”. Meanwhile, Pro-Palestinians demonstrators hiding their faces and harassing Jews is just a “genuine reaction” to the “Zionist’s propaganda” since they are the “poorly affected ones”. In this...

Nov 15, 2023, 4:16 AM

A Cocktail of Avantgarde Lies

She does not get it and she never will because in this emotional world truths are lies, and lies are truths. Queen Rania, who was born wealthy and unaware of the reality surrounding her, is leading an aggressive irrational propaganda...

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...

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About Me

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez, BS, MA, MA, MD, Sgt. (Ret) is an Israeli who completed a B.S. in Neuroscience, 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, obtained a medical degree and completed two master's degrees: Applied Economics at UNED (Madrid, Spain) and International Geostrategy and Jihadist Terrorism at INISEG (Madrid, Spain). Currently, he is completing two more master’s degrees: Security and Intelligence Studies at Bellevue University (Bellevue, Nebraska) and Clinical Psychiatry at the European University of Madrid. Lev speaks eight languages, has written more than 180 academic papers/books/independent research projects/opinion articles/theses, is a member of multiple academic/medical organizations, and collaborates with several newspapers and journals. His professional interests are academia, applied economics/businesses, Israel studies, medicine, and scientific dissemination. José is a believer that in a diverse world, human beings are obliged to have multiple skills and varied knowledge to effectively contribute to their societies.

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