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Jun 30, 2026, 11:13 AM

The Golden Route Reboot: How the Hormuz Crisis Birthed IMEC 2.0

Conceptual illustration: A strategic maritime trade hub representing the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC). Image: AI-generated (free for commercial use).

The ink on the newly signed memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran is barely dry. President Trump and Iranian officials have agreed to terms that promise to instantly reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Global markets are...

Jun 28, 2026, 5:10 PM

Beyond the ‘Art of the Deal’: Why the Levant Needs Climate Realism

Beyond the "Art of Deal" – No to Transactional Diplomacy. By Carmit Lubanov ©

For decades, international diplomacy in the Middle East has followed two equally flawed tracks. On one side are the utopian dreamers, proposing grand, multi-lateral "environmental peacebuilding" summits that assume ecological cooperation will magically pave the way for final-status political...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Jun 28, 2026, 4:56 PM

Yaacov Agam: The artist who reread the 2nd commandment

The Fire and Water Fountain, Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv. Credit: roni dadon / PikiWiki Israel, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5.

His works refuse the fixed image that claims to reveal everything at once; rather, they insist on sacred multiple interpretations

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jun 25, 2026, 6:29 PM

When Complicity Becomes a Weapon

Illustration by Yochanan Schimmelpfennig. AI-assisted editorial rendering of public speech, accusation, and the contested meaning of “complicity” in Europe’s debate over Israel.

The case of Pilar Rahola is not only about Pilar Rahola. It is about what happens when a democratic society begins to translate political interpretation into criminal suspicion, and when the word “complicity” is stretched until it no longer...

Jun 21, 2026, 8:59 PM

From Getaway to Gateway: When Jewish Travel Becomes a Journey

There is a moment on every journey when ordinary life begins to loosen its grip. Packing, getting to the airport, checking in, and navigating security lines can be hectic and stressful even in the best of circumstances. For me, there...

Johnathan Orlianski

Jun 21, 2026, 6:53 PM

The Family Erased

My name is Johnathan Orlianski. My family name was once spelled Orliansky, before it was changed after my family arrived in Israel in the 1970s. I live in Israel. I am the great-grandson of Rabbi Zalman Orliansky, author of Machaze...

Jun 19, 2026, 9:47 AM

High-Tech Oases and the Missing Piece of Middle Eastern Climate Resilience

Climate Democracy - The Israel perspective

As the Mediterranean summer sharpens into a multi-month crucible of extreme heatwaves and declining water security, a dangerous illusion persists across the Middle East. It is the belief that resilience to an altering climate is purely an engineering challenge—a...

Jun 16, 2026, 5:28 PM

Weapons vs. Welfare: Why Our Defense Budgets Are Sabotaging Our Climate Survival

Climate Survival

We live in a world obsessed with “hard security.” We measure a nation’s safety by the size of its defense budget, the sophistication of its arsenals, and its capacity to project force. Yet, in the Anthropocene—an era defined by...

Jun 16, 2026, 8:46 AM

Truths and Constructed Myths Regarding the Jewish Presence in Albania

The tendency to produce, package, and instrumentalize myths for specific purposes—whether individual, collective, historical, or political—is considered “normal” in the Balkan Peninsula. It suffices that such actions yield the desired effect or outcome for those who construct, package, or...

Jun 14, 2026, 6:07 PM

Erdogan Exposed the Lie Beneath Ataturk’s Republic

Erdogan is not the deviation that ruined a clean republic. He is the loud voice of a state tradition Ankara had long sold as Western, secular and safe. Jerusalem, Athens and Brussels now face the same mistake: the belief...

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