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Oct 27, 2026, 12:12 AM

Arab countries are not interested in a war with Israel

Bezalel Smotrich and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi face off against a backdrop of the Israeli and Egyptian flags. (AI-generated)

Watching the recent exchange between Bezalel Smotrich and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi made me feel like I was watching two different centuries talk past each other. Smotrich, speaking this month, floated the prospect of a future Egyptian attack and answered it...

Oct 23, 2026, 2:40 PM

A Naval Officer Invented the Middle East. We Still Live Inside His Map.

“If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else.” — Yogi Berra In September 1902, a retired American naval captain named Alfred Thayer Mahan published an essay in a London monthly about how Britain might keep Russia...

Shaike Komornik

Oct 23, 2026, 11:25 AM

The Struggle for the Mediterranean: Between Cooperation and Risk of Confrontation

The approval of the maritime agreement between Turkey and Libya has brought the struggle for control of the eastern Mediterranean back into the spotlight. For Israel, this issue extends far beyond maritime maps, touching on national security, regional alliances,...

Allen S. Maller

Oct 20, 2026, 3:02 AM

Moses & YHVH Together

YHWH or YHVH is not just a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew Tetragrammaton (“four letters"), it is the sacred, personal name and energy essence of the God in the Hebrew Bible: יהוה. Because ancient Hebrew, like Arabic, was written...

Oct 18, 2026, 1:49 PM

Saudi Security and Abraham Accords back on the table

President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud during a bilateral meeting at the White House. Picture source: The White House.

The intensifying Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia have thrust regional security back into the heart of Middle Eastern diplomacy. However, as concerns about missile and drone strikes grow, a new opportunity is emerging: this crisis could lead to renewed...

George Papasimakis

Oct 15, 2026, 12:17 PM

The Red Sea Trap: Is Israel Being Encircled?

An Israeli Navy Sa'ar 4.5 missile boat fires its cannon during a naval exercise. (Photo: Israel Defense Forces / Wikimedia Commons)

The collapse of the Assad regime in Damascus did not resolve Israel’s strategic vulnerabilities; it displaced and magnified them. While Israeli tactical planning has focused on securing dominant observation points on Mount Hermon and neutralizing immediate hostile infiltration, a...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 1, 2026, 10:18 PM

Israel’s Benghazi Option: Realism Over Diplomacy

Egyptian subversion greeted King Hassan II’s February 1961 ascension, as Gamal Abdel Nasser’s assassins actively targeted the new monarch. In response, Mossad intelligence exposed the plot and alerted General Mohamed Oufkir, allowing Moroccan troops to dismantle the hostile Casablanca...

Allen S. Maller

Sep 25, 2026, 5:38 AM

Tahrif Is Not Jewish But Midrash Is

The Qur’an declares that Allah could have made all of us monotheists, a single religious community, but didn’t in order to test our commitment to the religion that each of us have been given by God. “If Allah had...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 22, 2026, 2:37 AM

Bag Ortega Before the Houthis Bag Haifa

Houthi missile batteries have officially entered a kamikaze phase, mimicking the exact suicide tempo that the Iranian regime deploys against global shipping and sovereign cities on this side of the world. Illustrating the stakes, Saudi air defenses intercepted a...

Mahdi Ismail Abokor

Sep 16, 2026, 5:16 AM

Somaliland’s Washington Moment: A Nation Ready to Be a Strategic Partner

Somaliland's Washington Moment: A Nation Ready to Be a Strategic Partner Somaliland's diplomatic journey has entered a new and consequential phase. On September 14, President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi "Irro" stood before the Hudson Institute in Washington and made a...

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