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Sep 21, 2026, 6:45 PM

Security Is a Shared Interest

The war in Gaza has left enormous pain and anger across the Arab world and far beyond it. Yet only days ago, Morocco and Israel agreed to take another step in the opposite direction: upgrading their diplomatic representation to...

Sep 18, 2026, 7:02 PM

The Mecca Pact: An alliance on paper

Confronted by the Houthis, Riyadh discovers the fragility of Its alliances—and the unacknowledged usefulness of Israel

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 18, 2026, 5:16 AM

Israel Must Protect the Mecca Holy Sites

Fifth-century Yemen supplies the modern State of Israel with a vital historical precedent that Middle East analysts foolishly ignore. When the Himyarite Jewish king Abu Kariba As’ad marched to raze the Kaaba, two traveling rabbis halted the demolition by...

Sep 16, 2026, 11:01 PM

The Houthis Just Set Up Israel’s Checkmate. Here’s the Move.

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Israel helps Saudi Arabia in Yemen. Saudi Arabia recognizes Israel, opens its doors to Gazans, and declares the conflict over. Earlier this month, Houthi missiles and drones hit southwestern Saudi Arabia. Dozens of civilians were wounded and energy facilities went...

Sep 16, 2026, 10:19 PM

After Six Years of the Abraham Accords, Two Paths for the Middle East

On January 9th, 2026, I boarded a direct flight from Tel Aviv to Dubai. It still felt remarkable. I did not think, growing up, that such a flight would exist in my lifetime — and six years ago, it...

Sep 15, 2026, 5:37 PM

We Need a Carrot for Peace, Not Just the Stick

Source: Israel Railways https://www.rail.co.il/?page=eastern-railroad-project

Israelis typically pride themselves on the country's capacity to defend and deter our enemies. You often hear it in speeches from the political echelon, applauding our military’s ability to fight off enemies, gather intelligence against them, and strike a...

Aug 24, 2026, 12:21 AM

Why Israel might be better off without the Abraham Accords

President Donald J. Trump, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan signs the Abraham Accords Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

There are two maps of the Middle East. One is drawn for television: flags, ambassadors, handshakes, denunciations, and summits. The other is drawn in rooms that do not appear on any floor plan: intelligence exchanges, defense coordination, commercial understandings,...

Aug 17, 2026, 7:00 PM

Israel Will Price Riyadh’s Exit From the Dependence It Bought in Ankara and Islamabad

Riyadh bought protection from Ankara and Islamabad and imported their vetoes into its own security core. Neither will fight Saudi Arabia’s war with Iran; both need Tehran intact, while Turkey shields Hamas and profits when IMEC stalls. Jerusalem will...

Shaike Komornik

Aug 14, 2026, 6:48 PM

The Mecca Pact: Should Israel be worried?

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Over the past weekend, a dramatic diplomatic ceremony unfolded at Al-Safa Palace in Mecca. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif signed the "Mecca Joint Defense Agreement", a trilateral...

Aug 11, 2026, 10:49 AM

Normalization from the Saudi Perspective: Part III

Learning the Grammar of Regional Legitimacy One Cup of Tea at a Time Memory in the Middle East is not archived in digital databases or bureaucratic files; it is encoded slowly, deliberately, one cup of tea at a time. Long...

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