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Jun 29, 2026, 7:25 PM

Gaza: Confronting Complicity and Extremism

25th anniversary of Hamas celebrated in Gaza. 8 December 2012. (Source: Hadi Mohammad/Wikimedia Commons)

The Hard Questions Masked by the Selective Outrage of Sonia Gandhi: A Reckoning with Islamism, Gaza, and the World’s Convenient Amnesia There is a version of the Gaza story the world has agreed to tell. It is clean, photogenic, and...

Jun 27, 2026, 10:04 PM

Eilat 2035: How Israel Should Respond to the Saudi-Turkish-Qatari IMEC Challenge

According to reports published by TheMarker and Haaretz, Transportation Minister Miri Regev recently sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concerning the strategic implications of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) and regional developments. The letter demonstrates that...

Jun 25, 2026, 12:49 PM

The Rise and Rise of the India-Israel Partnership

Chat GPT generated sketch of an original picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Narendra Modi, prime minister of India, in 2026. Credit: Ma’ayan Toaf/GPO. New image available for commercial and non-commercial use.

History alone does not create enduring alliances; shared interests do. India and Israel have transformed centuries of civilizational contact into one of the world's fastest-growing strategic partnerships, driven by converging security concerns, technological cooperation, and an increasingly similar view...

Jun 24, 2026, 8:06 PM

The Majdal Zoun Blueprint: Why Hezbollah’s Drone Tunnels Should Terrify South Asia

Deep beneath the rocky terrain of southern Lebanon, the architecture of modern warfare has fundamentally shifted. Just days ago, during intense combat operations, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) captured and exposed a massive underground fortress hidden under the civilian...

Purna Lal Chakma

Jun 23, 2026, 1:49 PM

Why Israel Is Right to Watch Hamas-Linked Activity in Bangladesh

Illustrative AI-assisted editorial image inspired by widely circulated visuals from Bangladesh, exploring Islamist mobilisation, Palestinian symbolism, and the debate over national identity; AI-assisted editorial illustration by Purna Lal Chakma.

When Israeli Ambassador to India Reuven Azar reportedly alleged that Hamas-linked activity is taking place in Pakistan and Bangladesh, many people in South Asia may have treated it as another diplomatic warning from the Middle East. But Bangladesh should...

Jun 19, 2026, 6:42 PM

How Israel’s War Test India’s Defense Strategy

Today India and Israel have a vibrant strategic partnership, based on common security concerns, intelligence cooperation, military cooperation and business ties. The bilateral ties between the 2 states have improved since 1992, but the conflicts involving Israel will bring...

Jun 19, 2026, 6:30 PM

The H3+ Problem: How the New US-Iran Deal Redraws the Map for South Asian Security

The ink on the new memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran is barely dry, and already a profound cognitive dissonance is taking hold across the globe. In Western capitals, the sudden sanctions relief and unfreezing of Iranian assets...

Jun 18, 2026, 6:22 AM

What India Might Learn from Israel’s Involuntary Urbanism

A class is held in front of the iconic stained glass windows at the old National Library of Israel building in Jerusalem, in an undated photo. (Source: The Times of Israel)

Most comparative analyses begin in the wrong place. They ask: what has Israel built that India should copy? Drip irrigation. Iron Dome. Mossad. The startup ecosystem. Unit 8200. These answers are not wrong, they are simply shallow. They describe outputs...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 16, 2026, 11:41 AM

The Vance Deal’s Nuclear Trap for Israel

Vice President JD Vance appears on "Hannity" on Monday, June 15, 2026, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

The “Vance Deal”—underwritten by U.S. Vice President Vance’s preferred Middle East patrons in Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia—does not end a crisis. It monetizes American retreat, legitimizes and strengthens the Iranian regime, lifts America’s naval blockade of Iran...

Jun 15, 2026, 10:03 AM

The Collateral Damage of American Exceptionalism

Conceptual illustration: A merchant vessel engulfed in flames in the Gulf of Oman symbolizes the human cost of escalating geopolitical tensions and military actions at sea. Image: AI-generated (free for commercial use).

The illusion of the Indo-US strategic partnership is currently burning in the waters of the Gulf of Oman. We spent the last decade convincing ourselves that Washington viewed New Delhi as an equal partner. We signed defense pacts, conducted...

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