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Jun 23, 2026, 8:25 AM

Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup–Day 12

As is typically the case for the Zionist's Guide to the World Cup (ZGWC), it will be politics first today, then onto the football. We will begin in Colombia where the second round of the presidential elections is now in...

Jun 17, 2026, 8:11 AM

Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup—Day 6

For all of the recent demonization of “settler colonialism” in recent years, no sportscasters or commentators or other know-it-alls seemed to remember this blight on human existence when it came to today’s France-Senegal match. France, as the former colonial...

Jun 10, 2026, 2:34 PM

Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup Group–H/I/J Previews

Group H In past editions of the Zionist's Guide to the World Cup (ZGWC), Spain was consistently rated poorly. This assessment was based almost entirely on those inconveniences of 500+ years ago commonly known as the Expulsion from Spain and...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 9, 2026, 6:14 AM

America’s New Anti-Israel Left-Right Consensus

Fifteen years ago, both major American political parties treated Israel as a strategic asset in the Middle East. Gallup’s 2011 surveys showed clear majorities sympathizing more with Israelis than with Palestinians across Democratic and Republican ranks. By February 2026,...

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...

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...

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