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Aug 14, 2026, 6:53 PM

Ceuta is Moroccan, and the Israelification of its crisis changes nothing

Anyone with little sense of the geography who first heard of a “migration crisis into Ceuta” might reasonably have imagined desperate migrants reaching mainland Spain – only to discover, perhaps with some astonishment, that Ceuta is quite literally a city on the Moroccan coast, separated from the rest of Spain by the Mediterranean and distinguished from its Moroccan surroundings chiefly by the fact that Madrid still governs it. (AI-generated).

I am late to this – partly because I was away on summer vacation, but also deliberately so, because the sheer density of bad analysis, conspiratorial reasoning, and historical amnesia that followed the events of July 30-31 in Ceuta...

Aug 3, 2026, 7:36 AM

The Gog and Magog War: What’s Still Missing for Its Fulfillment?

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Ezekiel was a priest deported to Babylon in 597 BCE, eleven years before the Temple fell. His oracles run from roughly 593 to 571 BCE, and two chapters of his book, 38 and 39, contain its strangest vision. A...

Jul 28, 2026, 4:44 PM

Israel Must Read China’s Africa Tech Map

The next China-Israel story may begin far from Haifa, Tel Aviv, or Washington. It may begin in Cairo, where Huawei is selling AI infrastructure to Egyptian companies; in Rabat, where a Chinese battery giant is backing Morocco’s electric-vehicle ambitions;...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 22, 2026, 6:17 AM

Redi Tlhabi and the Death of a Word

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When a contested legal conclusion becomes editorial shorthand, it stops protecting the people who need it. On July 15, more than 1,000 people gathered at New York’s Town Hall for the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s inaugural Global Leadership Forum. Mayor Zohran...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 12, 2026, 9:05 PM

The Standard Pretoria Built

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South Africa built a legal standard at The Hague. It now applies at the Limpopo. Mqondisi Moyo's statement of July 12 needs no help from me, and it needs no mention of Israel. The facts inside South Africa are enough....

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 7, 2026, 6:52 PM

The Construction of a Conspiracy Theory

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An antisemitic conspiracy theory does not begin with evidence. It begins with need. A country fails. Its ruling party hollows out institutions, public services collapse, borders turn performative, police lose authority, and unemployment becomes generational. African migrants are threatened by...

Jul 7, 2026, 3:06 AM

Beyond Recognition: Israel, US, Somaliland, & the New Strategic Enviroment

Member of Somaliland Security Forces - 2013

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With the end of the 2026 US-Iran conflict, the strategic alignments of the greater Middle East will begin to reshape themselves to adjust to the new post-conflict reality. Already, there are indications of the potential formation of a Saudi-Egypt-Pakistan-Turkey...

Jun 26, 2026, 2:54 PM

Goodbye, America. Hello world

Israel's special relationship with the US may be on the rocks, but the Global South has a lot to offer for the long term

Jun 21, 2026, 1:21 PM

Somaliland and the New Politics of Recognition

Recognition Isn’t Charity Recognition is not a moral reward. It is power, and in today’s fractured world, power often matters more than permission. When international institutions stall, paralyzed by vetoes, inertia, and performative consensus, recognition becomes a strategic lever: a...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jun 19, 2026, 8:11 PM

South Africa’s Israel Obsession Will Not Save Migrants

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South Africa wants the world to see it as the moral prosecutor of Israel. It should first explain why African migrants are again living in fear on South African streets. The issue is no longer theoretical. Anti-immigrant groups have reportedly...

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