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Sep 21, 2026, 6:45 PM

Security Is a Shared Interest

The war in Gaza has left enormous pain and anger across the Arab world and far beyond it. Yet only days ago, Morocco and Israel agreed to take another step in the opposite direction: upgrading their diplomatic representation to...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 18, 2026, 5:16 AM

Israel Must Protect the Mecca Holy Sites

Fifth-century Yemen supplies the modern State of Israel with a vital historical precedent that Middle East analysts foolishly ignore. When the Himyarite Jewish king Abu Kariba As’ad marched to raze the Kaaba, two traveling rabbis halted the demolition by...

Freddie Russell

Sep 15, 2026, 6:27 PM

Bahrain is due more credit for the Abraham Accords

Bahrain deserves far greater credit for the Abraham Accords. Not only for signing the agreement on the lawn of the White House six years ago this week, but for what it has done since, and for the deeper history...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 3, 2026, 10:58 PM

Iran Tightens the Noose: Kuwait Must Choose Israel

Kuwait stands on the precipice of an avoidable catastrophe that Western weapons cannot avert. For decades, bloated defense procurement has yielded an armed force optimized for twentieth-century desert tank warfare, leaving the nation blind to twenty-first-century gray-zone coercion. Squandering...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 24, 2026, 5:30 AM

Bennett and Liberman Must End the Palestinian Mess

Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Lieberman correctly reject diplomatic fantasy, but turning that rejection into hard-nosed architecture requires shattering the West’s favorite delusions. For decades, the archaic Israeli foreign policy establishment chased the mirage of a centralized Palestinian state, creating...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 8, 2026, 5:25 PM

Riyadh Chose the Brotherhood Security Camp

On August 7, 2026, Saudi Arabia ended years of geostrategic ambiguity. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) joined Turkey’s neo-Ottoman despot, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Mecca to sign a mutual-defense agreement that...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jul 22, 2026, 8:05 PM

Saudi Enrichment Would Trigger a Nuclear Arms Race

Former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has condemned the proposed American nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia. In his view, a deal allowing Riyadh to enrich uranium on its territory represents a red line that will eventually trigger an unsustainable...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 28, 2026, 5:05 PM

Tehran’s Hormuz Hypocrisy Threatens Gulf Stability

Tehran is following its usual script. Fresh Iranian drone and missile strikes have hit Bahrain (including some near the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama) while the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatens to set ships on fire in the...

Benjamen Franklen 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,...

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