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Sep 22, 2026, 12:17 PM

Would Jews Be Safer Without Israel?

For two thousand years, Jews lived with a simple vulnerability: their safety depended on the goodwill of somebody else. They could prosper when rulers and neighbours were tolerant, and suffer when they were not. Israel did not abolish antisemitism....

Sep 22, 2026, 1:21 AM

The AfD’s Rise Should Alarm Israel

Eighty years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, a party accused of harboring extremists and minimizing the crimes of the Holocaust has won a stunning electoral victory. For Jews in Germany, Israel and across Europe, the question is no...

Sep 17, 2026, 2:06 PM

Britain’s Israeli Policy Is a Miscalculation

Britain’s foreign secretary has presented sanctions against Israel as a route to Middle East stability. The argument rests on an assumption that history, geography and the record of failed peace initiatives do little to support. The House of Commons has...

Sep 16, 2026, 3:07 PM

Iran Is Weaker. Trump Must Press On

The Iranian regime is under pressure on land, at sea and in its economy. American strikes have degraded its military capabilities, a naval blockade is squeezing its access to revenue, and commercial vessels are once again moving through the...

Sep 15, 2026, 1:44 PM

Jordan Shows When Israel Goes to War

Israel is often portrayed as a state that reaches instinctively for force. Yet its longest and quietest frontier tells a rather different story. Along the border with Jordan, where violence once flowed freely, Israeli guns have largely fallen silent....

Sep 14, 2026, 6:30 PM

Iran’s Two-Strait Strategy

A civil war that has dragged on for more than a decade is suddenly threatening to become a global problem. The reason is geography. If the Houthis consolidate their advance towards Bab al-Mandab while Iran keeps pressure on the...

Sep 7, 2026, 1:35 PM

Tehran’s Biggest Enemy May Be Inside Iran

Close-up view of Middle East map highlighting countries and borders, as from Pexels website (URL is https://www.pexels.com/photo/middle-eastern-countries-in-a-world-map-8828624/).

For decades, Iran sought security by pushing conflict beyond its borders, using missiles, militias, and proxies to impose costs on its adversaries while insulating the Islamic Republic from direct pressure. That logic is now under strain. Protests, growing armed...

Sep 4, 2026, 5:46 PM

Iran’s Shadow War Comes to America

Vibrant American flag flying against a clear blue sky, symbolizing freedom and patriotism from the website Pexels, free download for non-commercial use (https://www.pexels.com/photo/us-a-flag-on-pole-under-blue-sky-7483195/).

As U.S.-Iran hostilities intensify again, Washington must confront a second front in the conflict: the possibility that Tehran could seek to retaliate through covert networks, cyber operations, and other asymmetric means far beyond the Middle East. The latest escalation between...

Sep 3, 2026, 6:18 PM

Iran’s Proxy Empire Comes Apart

Close-up view of Middle East map highlighting countries and borders, as from Pexels website (URL is https://www.pexels.com/photo/middle-eastern-countries-in-a-world-map-8828624/).

Tehran built a regional strategy around armed partnerships. Now its greatest legacy may be forces it can no longer fully control.

Sep 2, 2026, 12:57 PM

The Limits of Managing Iran

Washington must demonstrate that economic pressure is intended to produce a political outcome rather than become an end in itself. (ChatGPT AI generated image of Donald Trump looking back at the flag of Iran amidst rubble in Tehran. Trump is moving beyond degrading Iran's nuclear ambitions or targeting the IRGC. The emerging objective is to weaken the regime's capacity to govern.)

Washington has treated the Iranian threat as a problem to contain and postpone. Trump’s wager is that the greater danger now lies in allowing that strategy to continue. For nearly half a century, the United States has pursued a policy...

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Saurav Dutt is a TIME magazine featured published Author and Global Affairs Commentator. He is the Author of Modi and Me: A Political, Cultural, and Religious Reawakening, and Balance of Power: US-India Ties in the Epoch of Trump and Modi.