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Benjamen Gussen

May 26, 2026, 10:33 AM

The Death of the Middle East: The Abraham Accords and the Birth of the Med East

The Abraham Accords were not only a diplomatic breakthrough. They were the first clear sign that the region long called the "Middle East" had begun to outgrow the map that gave it that name. "Middle East" was never a native...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 13, 2026, 4:09 AM

‘Indiana Trump’ Barks Again; No Bite Yet

In the brutal chessboard of Middle Eastern geopolitics, the Spanish proverb perro que ladra no muerde—a dog that barks does not bite—now defines President Donald Trump’s Iran strategy with merciless clarity. Since the Pakistan-brokered ceasefire took effect on April 8,...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 8, 2026, 1:48 AM

Israel Must Strip Iranian Spies of Citizenship

Bahrain has delivered a masterstroke of sovereign realism. Last week, the kingdom stripped 69 individuals and their immediate family members of citizenship. The reason was clear: these people had glorified Iranian missile and drone barrages or maintained direct contacts...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 7, 2026, 4:21 AM

Hezbollah’s Assault on the New Syrian Regime

The new Syrian government is under direct assault from Hezbollah remnants determined to wreck the post-Assad transition. Since toppling Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, Damascus has thwarted five major terrorist operations and dismantled ten Hezbollah-linked cells. These plots expose...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 5, 2026, 3:19 PM

Hezbollah’s Drones Challenge Israel’s Edge

In late April 2026, a fiber-optic first-person-view drone struck an Israeli armored unit in the village of Taybeh in southern Lebanon, killing Israeli soldier Idan Fooks and wounding six others. Hezbollah subsequently released video evidence of additional strikes on...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 24, 2026, 3:27 AM

Pakistan Replaces Oman as US-Iran Broker

Oman is out as Washington’s Iran backchannel. In under six weeks, the Gulf sultanate that once hosted every quiet U.S.–Iran contact lost its seat. Talks shifted to Islamabad. The Serena Hotel hosted round one on April 11–12, 2026; twenty...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 23, 2026, 4:03 AM

Hormuz Hostage: The Great American Capitulation

President Donald Trump rightly eviscerated Barack Obama over the 2015 nuclear deal and the $1.7 billion in cash secretly airlifted to Tehran. That agreement—coupled with pallets of cash and over $100 billion in sanctions relief—supercharged Iran’s nuclear program while...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 21, 2026, 7:32 AM

Israel Keeps Golan as Syria Joins Abraham Accords

With Israel and Lebanon working towards a longstanding peaceful settlement and neutralizing Hezbollah’s terrorist machinery, the moment has arrived for a full normalization with Syria too. This means diplomatic recognition, economic ties, and a strategic partnership under the Abraham...

Apr 14, 2026, 2:11 AM

Winning the War, Losing the Will

We stand today facing consequential, perhaps even existential, questions about the war in Iran. Yet instead of finding unity, we see a country increasingly fractured. It is a subject close to my heart, as it may test the resolve...

Ambrogino Awesta

Apr 14, 2026, 1:19 AM

The Strait of Hormuz and the Legal Threshold of War

A Turning Point: From Diplomacy to Confrontation Following the failure of the Islamic Republic of Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – set as a precondition for negotiations in Islamabad – the President of the United States announced that...

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