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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...

Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Aug 24, 2026, 12:40 AM

Tshurbes, Mud and blossoming

On August 24, Ukraine marks its Independence Day. In 2026 the date cannot be separated from the war that followed Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Yet another August comes to mind. On August 21, 1968, Warsaw Pact forces entered...

Aug 22, 2026, 9:29 PM

Jewish life and antisemitism in Athens

Aron Kodesh at Etz Chaim Synagogue (Photo: By the author John Meister)

On a quiet corner in the Thiseio district of Athens, two historic buildings stand directly across from each other. Together, they tell the extraordinary story of Greek Jewry. On one side is Beth Shalom, the neoclassical, marble-clad Sephardic synagogue....

Aug 20, 2026, 8:49 PM

Dublin’s latest obsession: Israel’s European bond distribution

The Irish government appears to feel saddled by that most inconvenient of institutions, an independent central bank. That is, at least, when it comes to the Central Bank of Ireland’s role as the competent authority mandated to approve prospectuses...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Aug 20, 2026, 9:23 AM

Has Israel Learned Europe’s Gaze?

There is an uncomfortable question that Israeli political language rarely allows itself to ask: has the State of Israel begun to produce Palestinians through a structure similar to the one through which particular European secular, colonial, and administrative regimes...

Aug 18, 2026, 3:04 AM

The Vanishing Democratic Alibi: India and the West’s New Politics of Power

Trump welcomes Mecca Pact. An AI Illustration.

On August 16, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he was “very happy” the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement had “finally” been signed, calling it a “BIG, BOLD, AND IMPORTANT FIRST STEP” and congratulating the “Great Leadership” of Saudi...

Aug 18, 2026, 12:37 AM

Radical Islam Is Invincible

War, containment, or surrender

The West Is Incapable of Dealing with Radical Islam The war waged by Americans and Israelis against Iran and its terrorist proxies exposes the truth that the West has been trying to conceal for many years: we are witnessing an...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 18, 2026, 12:35 AM

The Nordic Rift: How Scandinavia Estranged Israel

The Postwar Consensus and Shared Idealism In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the nations of the Nordic world viewed the nascent State of Israel not with suspicion, but with a profound and genuine affinity. This was a...

Aug 18, 2026, 12:26 AM

My One-Minute Prayer at Birkenau

Every visitor to Poland arrives with a different story. Some come as students. Some come as historians. Some come because their grandparents survived. Others come because their grandparents never left. Each deserves to remember in their own way. Before we arrived, I...

Aug 17, 2026, 7:06 PM

Do Not Raise the Axe

The Kanaani’s journey from the Gates of Eden to America and Finland

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