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Jun 4, 2026, 8:03 PM

The Heavenly Horizon: A Spaceman’s Shabbat

Rabbi David Shloush, 2008 (Wikipedia, https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:Rabi_david_shloush.jpeg, Public Domain)

On 1 April 2026 – the eve of Passover 5786 – NASA launched a crewed spacecraft on a flyby trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth. This was the first crewed flight near the Moon since Apollo 17...

Vorya Hossein Panahi Tazehabad

Jun 3, 2026, 3:18 PM

After the fall, will Iran be free or just different?

(AI)

The country I loved was the people, the language, the mountains... What will it take to bring it back and not risk suffering under a post-Islamic Republic regime?

Benjamen 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...

May 17, 2026, 12:22 AM

Eshet Chayil: A farewell to Meira Yona of Mosul

Still image from the video interview recorded at Meira Yona's house in Haifa, 22 June 2022. Source: Author.

She left al-Mawṣil with the clothes on her body. She kept everything that mattered — the poem, the dialect, the love her parents taught her in Markab. Meira Yona has died, in Haifa, in her ninety-sixth year. I called her...

Ambrogino Awesta

May 14, 2026, 9:46 PM

Iran and the Limits of Classical Warfare

Introduction: A Naval Superpower at Strategic Impasse After forty days of sustained confrontation around Iran, the United States finds itself in a familiar but deeply uncomfortable strategic position. American naval forces remain deployed across the Persian Gulf and surrounding maritime...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 11, 2026, 8:23 AM

Israel’s Iraq Gambit: Tehran’s Uranium Encircled

The Wall Street Journal investigation into Israel’s secret forward base in Iraq’s western desert offers more than a wartime footnote. It supplies a proven geostrategic template for decisive action. Weeks before the February 2026 United States-Israel military offensive against...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 7, 2026, 4:21 AM

Hezbollah’s Assault on the New Syrian Regime

The new Syrian government is under direct assault from Hezbollah remnants determined to wreck the post-Assad transition. Since toppling Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, Damascus has thwarted five major terrorist operations and dismantled ten Hezbollah-linked cells. These plots expose...

Justine Johnston Hemmestad

May 6, 2026, 1:01 AM

By The Nameless One (my good friend in Israel who would rather me not publish his name, but from whom I get an insider’s account of what’s really happening) Iran The “Roaring Lion / Epic Fury” operation by Israel and the...

May 3, 2026, 6:36 PM

It’s High Time for Baghdad to Make Some Hard Decisions

Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS), an Iraqi militia that receives support from Tehran, has been officially designated as a terrorist organization by the United States. They are offering a reward of up to $10 million for information regarding its leader,...

Michael Arizanti

May 3, 2026, 1:50 PM

Capitol Institute’s Maria Maalouf Meets Trump: A MENA Moment

For many years, I have worked with The Capitol Institute - a nonprofit organization founded by my colleague and friend Maria Maalouf, dedicated to facilitating dialogue and bridging understanding between the Middle East and the United States. Our mission...

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