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Sep 12, 2026, 10:52 AM

The Jew, the Jew, shalt thou pursue?

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In a statement to the House of Commons on 8 September 2026, UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced that His Majesty’s Government would introduce a ban on imports into Britain of goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 8, 2026, 1:38 PM

Israel Must Fight Turkey’s Maritime Aggression Now

Ankara’s revisionist foreign policy thrives on uncontested space, fed by a Western complacency that consistently ignores Turkish expansionism. This aggressive posture materialized in November 2019, when Turkey signed a maritime memorandum with Tripoli’s authorities, carving out a corridor across...

Alexander Shatkhin

Aug 31, 2026, 6:35 PM

Israel, Greece, Cyprus: A New Check on Turkey

The Eastern Mediterranean is gradually becoming one of the most strategically contested regions in the wider Middle East. What began as cooperation among Israel, Greece, and Cyprus on energy, infrastructure, and diplomacy has increasingly acquired a military and security...

Dina-Perla Portnaar

Aug 30, 2026, 4:19 AM

Accept that another voice can exist beside our own

For those who have missed it: I exchanged the Netherlands for Cyprus permanently. Truly, the best decision of my life. I’m full of life again. But the start here was insanely difficult for many reasons. After a difficult period, I...

Aug 28, 2026, 6:21 PM

Article 5 Has a Map. Turkey Does Not Get to Redraw It.

An Israel–Turkey clash would be extraordinarily costly to both. But the decisive variables are not platform counts: who is attacked, where, which legal basis is activated, and who is obliged - or chooses - to enter. Cyprus sits at...

Aug 22, 2026, 11:37 AM

Turkey’s Next War Could Undo 1974

Achilles’ Shield, Cyprus’s rearmament, Israel’s naval doctrine and the widening F-35 gap now form one deterrent architecture. If deterrence fails, Poseidon’s Wrath will place Turkey’s occupation of northern Cyprus on the battlefield. On 7 July, at the Haifa naval base,...

George Theodoridis

Aug 3, 2026, 6:13 PM

August 1964: Greek warplanes support Cyprus

August 1964. For a few days now, fierce fighting has been raging in Cyprus between Turkish forces and the National Guard. The reason for this was the Turkish Cypriot rebellion that had erupted since December 1963, following the refusal of...

Yaakov Chaliotis

Jul 23, 2026, 7:37 PM

The Empty Chair in Geneva: Writing the Rules Without the Democracies

America and Israel walked away from the UN Human Rights Council. The institution didn’t stop working — it kept writing the rules, with China methodically filling the space the democracies left behind. In Geneva, international institutions do not wait for...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jul 7, 2026, 7:46 PM

Turkey Is a Bigger Threat to Israel Than Iran

As Ankara hosts NATO’s 2026 summit this week, Western governments are indulging a dangerous fantasy: that Iran’s battered proxy network has eased the main threat facing NATO and Israel. But they are wrong. The Iranian regime remains dangerous, but Turkey...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 16, 2026, 11:41 AM

The Vance Deal’s Nuclear Trap for Israel

Vice President JD Vance appears on "Hannity" on Monday, June 15, 2026, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

The “Vance Deal”—underwritten by U.S. Vice President Vance’s preferred Middle East patrons in Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia—does not end a crisis. It monetizes American retreat, legitimizes and strengthens the Iranian regime, lifts America’s naval blockade of Iran...

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