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Jun 10, 2026, 2:34 PM

Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup Group–H/I/J Previews

Group H In past editions of the Zionist's Guide to the World Cup (ZGWC), Spain was consistently rated poorly. This assessment was based almost entirely on those inconveniences of 500+ years ago commonly known as the Expulsion from Spain and...

May 30, 2026, 5:15 PM

From Jerusalem via the Judean Desert to the Dead Sea: Turning Sewage into Energy

From Sewage to Energy: The Restoration of the Kidron Valley Brings Life Back to the Desert. About eight years ago, a capstone project I supervised at the Faculty of Management at Ben-Gurion University won first prize in the university’s “Green...

Benjamen Gussen

May 26, 2026, 10:33 AM

The Death of the Middle East: The Abraham Accords and the Birth of the Med East

The Abraham Accords were not only a diplomatic breakthrough. They were the first clear sign that the region long called the "Middle East" had begun to outgrow the map that gave it that name. "Middle East" was never a native...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 7, 2026, 4:21 AM

Hezbollah’s Assault on the New Syrian Regime

The new Syrian government is under direct assault from Hezbollah remnants determined to wreck the post-Assad transition. Since toppling Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, Damascus has thwarted five major terrorist operations and dismantled ten Hezbollah-linked cells. These plots expose...

Apr 27, 2026, 2:33 PM

The peace agreements that got us home

The Yitzhak Rabin Border Terminal at the Wadi Araba crossing between Israel and Jordan. (CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia, NYC2TLV)

Israel has thrived under leaders who knew victory is not measured by the devastation inflicted on its enemies

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 24, 2026, 3:27 AM

Pakistan Replaces Oman as US-Iran Broker

Oman is out as Washington’s Iran backchannel. In under six weeks, the Gulf sultanate that once hosted every quiet U.S.–Iran contact lost its seat. Talks shifted to Islamabad. The Serena Hotel hosted round one on April 11–12, 2026; twenty...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 23, 2026, 4:03 AM

Hormuz Hostage: The Great American Capitulation

President Donald Trump rightly eviscerated Barack Obama over the 2015 nuclear deal and the $1.7 billion in cash secretly airlifted to Tehran. That agreement—coupled with pallets of cash and over $100 billion in sanctions relief—supercharged Iran’s nuclear program while...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 10, 2026, 6:41 AM

Blunt Truth: Hezbollah’s Defeat Pays Off

Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his government to immediately begin direct peace negotiations with the Lebanese government. The goal is straightforward: full Hezbollah disarmament south of the Litani River and the establishment of peaceful relations between the...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 9, 2026, 3:57 AM

The Upcoming Script Flip on Israel’s Lebanon War

Iranian state television declared today that the Iranian-mined Strait of Hormuz was closed once again. Minutes later, maritime tracking data from MarineTraffic showed the Panama-flagged, United States Treasury-sanctioned oil tanker AUROURA executed a sharp 180-degree turn while approaching the...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Mar 30, 2026, 7:10 AM

Ukraine Rehearsed Iran’s Drone War on Israel

Israel is not neutral in Ukraine. Pretending otherwise now is either naivete or evasion. Ukraine is where the Russia-Iran drone model is being tested, refined, and scaled under battlefield conditions. Ukraine is where Russia launched more than 54,000 suicide...

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