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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jul 12, 2026, 10:37 PM

Israel Needs a Decapitation Deterrence Doctrine

President Trump recently stated on Truth Social that he has already directed the U.S. military “to fire one thousand missiles” and sustain operations to decimate and destroy Iran if the Mullahs assassinate him. This position stems from Israel’s intelligence...

Jul 12, 2026, 9:31 PM

Lindsey Graham understood what too few in Washington still do

Lindsey Graham died Saturday night the way he lived: mid-flight between crises that mattered to him. He had just returned from Kyiv, where he sat with Volodymyr Zelensky. Days before that, he was in Jerusalem, telling Prime Minister Netanyahu...

Jul 10, 2026, 5:48 PM

A crisis gone to waste

Every candidate needs an emergency. Emanuel came to Tel Aviv to nominate Israel’s status quo

Jaroslava Halper

Jul 10, 2026, 8:16 AM

Ingratiation of Rahm Emanuel to American Haters of Israel and Jews

Jewish candidates for the US Congress, including members of Congress running for re-election are finding the need to pass a litmus test if they want to be considered serious contenders for office in the midterm election in 2028. The...

Jul 9, 2026, 10:27 AM

You don’t have a Democratic Party problem. It’s A United States problem

Rahm Emanuel didn't come to lecture Israel. He came to warn it. Speaking in front of a packed auditorium at the Anu Museum on the campus of Tel Aviv University, Emanuel framed his criticism as coming from someone with...

Jul 8, 2026, 8:45 PM

Watching Netanyahu Make the Case — to an America That No Longer Exists

Watching the prime minister make the case — to the wrong audience. (ChatGPT)

New polling shows the firewall Israel built on the American right is quietly cracking On Tuesday I watched Benjamin Netanyahu twice in one day — fielding Dana Bash’s questions on CNN, then Greta Van Susteren’s on Newsmax — and I...

Jul 8, 2026, 7:36 AM

Rahm Emanuel – Israel’s Flashing Red Warning Indicator

A Warning Delivered by a Vote Counter, Not a Moralizer Rahm Emanuel's forthcoming speech at Tel Aviv University — declaring that the U.S.–Israel relationship is "at a crossroads" and "cannot stand or survive as it has been" — is already...

Jul 7, 2026, 1:15 PM

A Country Is Not Loved by Pretending It Is Simple

Yesterday there were two flags hanging outside my parents’ house in Israel: the American flag and the Israeli flag. It was the Fourth of July, which is already a strange and beautiful thing to celebrate from here, and somehow...

Hande Gençünal

Jul 7, 2026, 6:48 AM

Borrowed Legitimacy: Israel and the US Since 1967

In the first days of June 1967, before the war had even ended, something was already shifting in a far quieter place than Israel's front lines: its source of arms. France had until then been Israel's principal supplier. Mirage...

Jul 7, 2026, 3:06 AM

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

Member of Somaliland Security Forces - 2013

(Photo by Taken by Author)

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...

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