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Grant Arthur Gochin

May 29, 2026, 5:28 AM

When Israel Is the Desired Villain

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A South African critique of my article exposed how easily accusation replaces evidence. I wrote an argument. It was turned into an operation. That is the problem. My Times of Israel blog post, Africa Must Fragment, South Africa First, argued about sovereignty,...

Grant Arthur Gochin

May 23, 2026, 6:05 PM

Israel’s African Future

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Recognition, sovereignty, and the politics of survival. While much of the world treats Africa as a stage for ideological theatre, Israel treats Africa as a continent. Others issue lectures, conditions, and resolutions. Israel has delivered water technology, food security, medicine,...

Grant Arthur Gochin

May 21, 2026, 10:44 AM

The Genocide Industry and the People It Cannot See

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Mthwakazi faces a reported death threat from a head of state. The anti-Israel genocide machinery has nothing to say. There is a genocide industry. By that I do not mean Holocaust memory. I mean the professional machinery of atrocity recognition:...

Grant Arthur Gochin

May 19, 2026, 4:17 AM

Israel Recognized Somaliland. Why Is Africa Afraid to Follow?

President Isaac Herzog (right) with Somaliland’s first ambassador to Israel, Dr. Mohamed Hagi, during a ceremony at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, May 18, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90). Source: Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/somalilands-first-ambassador-in-countrys-history-presents-credentials-to-herzog/

Recognition is not destabilization. Refusing reality is. Israel did what Africa’s diplomatic class has refused to do for more than three decades. It recognized reality. On December 26, 2025, Israel became the first United Nations member state to recognize Somaliland as...

Grant Arthur Gochin

May 17, 2026, 6:11 PM

The Necessary Fragmentation of Africa

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South Sudan Won the Right to Choose. Mthwakazi Is Asking to Be Heard. Israel’s recognition of Somaliland may prove to be one of the most important diplomatic acts in modern African history. It was not merely a gesture toward a small,...

May 15, 2026, 7:38 AM

The deafening silence: Israel’s inexcusable absence from the Es-Smara chorus

The Polisario fires rockets to liberate a land it has never governed, while the people rotting in Tindouf’s camps remain its most neglected hostages.

When projectiles tore through the air above Es-Smara on the evening of May 5 – landing near a civilian prison, behind a cemetery, and wounding a woman whose only crime was existing in the vicinity of a conflict she...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 10, 2026, 1:00 AM

Israel’s Somaliland Gambit: Red Sea Power Shift

On December 26th, 2025, Israel became the first country to formally recognize Somaliland as an independent state. This was not a symbolic gesture or a fit of diplomatic nostalgia. It was a calculated power move that converted years of...

Mar 30, 2026, 7:33 AM

Deport Then Depend on Them: Israel’s Ethiopian non-Jewish migrants Contradiction

Designed and created by Shmuel Legesse, July 122, 2024.

Israel today is confronting a contradiction that cuts to the core of its identity not only as a sovereign state, but as a moral project shaped by history. On one hand, the government signals an intention to remove Ethiopian...

Mar 19, 2026, 9:08 PM

The Emerging ‘3-I’ Alliance

In the days immediately prior to the attack by Israel and the United States on Iran, India’s President Narendra Modi visited Jerusalem. To prepare for his visit, Modi saluted the “deep and enduring friendship between India and Israel.” The impact...

Mohamed Abdi Idiris

Mar 18, 2026, 3:23 PM

Why Israel Is a Strategic Ally

Introduction: Beyond Traditional Alliances In an era defined by shifting alliances and intensifying geopolitical competition, the concept of a “strategic ally” has evolved. No longer limited to shared ideology or geographic proximity, alliances today are driven by practical needs: security,...

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