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May 31, 2026, 5:57 PM

Turkey’s Fidan Wants to Write the Region’s Rules. Israel Is Writing Ankara Out.

A state that shelters Hamas, occupies northern Cyprus and weaponizes corridors cannot dictate the regional order. Israel and its partners are building the system that leaves Ankara outside it. In an interview with Japan’s Nikkei Asia, published yesterday, Turkish Foreign...

May 24, 2026, 12:35 AM

A 100-Year Territorial Settlement for Ukraine?

Russia retains occupied territory for a century, then returns it to Ukraine I once met Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, at my workplace in London’s Covent Garden. After a brief and warm exchange, I asked if...

May 3, 2026, 10:25 PM

Beyond the (Green) Line, Beyond the Law

The facts are no longer in dispute. In parts of the West Bank, so-called Israeli ‘civilians’ have carried out acts of arson, violent assault, intimidation, and actual murder against Palestinians in their own communities. These are not rumors or isolated...

Justine Johnston Hemmestad

Apr 20, 2026, 11:59 PM

Netanyahu’s Nature

My friend in Israel, whom I call The Nameless One in order to abide by his wish not to be named in print due to his work, offers a perspective shaped by both personal experience and the realities of...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Feb 27, 2026, 7:46 AM

Lost Territory: How Far Back in History Should Land Claims Be Allowed?

Last week, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee “suggested” that Israel would have a legitimate claim to a good part of the Middle East because of the Bible’s promise to the Israelites to rule “from the Euphrates ”. The...

Jan 31, 2026, 9:38 AM

Psalm of Kyiv Dedicated to the city of Kyiv, to my friends Aleksandr and Natalie Melnikov, and to all Ukrainians suffering from Russian attacks. This psalm was written in response to the quiet endurance of a city that lives between darkness and light, between uncertainty and...

Jan 12, 2026, 9:56 AM

Between Egypt and Exodus: Parashat Shemot and the World We Live In

Epigraph The destinies of today’s pharaohs are already written in the destinies of the pharaohs of the past. Parashat Shemot is often read as an ancient story about slavery and liberation, about bricks and whips, about a people trapped in a...

Jan 1, 2026, 5:46 AM

West Bank violence is NOT Netanyahu’s ‘handful of kids’

Netanyahu: ‘Handful of kids’ not from West Bank behind rising settler violence Netanyahu's comments with regards to still escalating settler violence in the West Bank is not an opinion or perspective - but an outright lie. I have to wonder...

Dec 22, 2025, 10:11 AM

No, the war’s not over. There’s still a real estate deal in the rubble

Waiting for Ran Gvili No, the Netanyahu and Trump war in Gaza is not over. Not by a long shot. That Ran Gvili's body has, inexplicably, not yet been returned, is one reason. You'd think that Trump or one of...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Nov 19, 2025, 7:14 AM

Trump’s F-35 Gamble to Detonate Mideast Power

Mohammed bin Salman did not fly to Washington for pageantry. He came for leverage, hard power, and a shot at rewiring the regional balance. At the center of his visit was the most consequential weapons negotiation in the Middle East...

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