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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 1, 2026, 10:18 PM

Israel’s Benghazi Option: Realism Over Diplomacy

Egyptian subversion greeted King Hassan II’s February 1961 ascension, as Gamal Abdel Nasser’s assassins actively targeted the new monarch. In response, Mossad intelligence exposed the plot and alerted General Mohamed Oufkir, allowing Moroccan troops to dismantle the hostile Casablanca...

Oct 1, 2026, 1:39 PM

The Copper Scroll Sec 4, the New Testament and Baptism 2030: A Research Proposal

An Administrative Station for Ritual Purity and Tithe Redemption: A Hydroclimatic and Halakhic Reading of Section 4 of the Copper Scroll (3Q15) Introduction: Mapping Administration, Ritual Purity, and Flood Risks Among the various groups within Jewish society in the early first...

Sep 24, 2026, 2:13 AM

Jordan’s king lectured Israel on Palestinians. His father shelled their camps

The king, emir and presidents who condemned Israel this week have records of their own, from Amman in 1970 to Tehran this January. On September 17, 1970, King Hussein sent his army against the Palestinian armed groups in Amman, Irbid...

Sep 22, 2026, 5:12 AM

Hands Off My Palestine

The Palestine Reclamation Project: Palestine Is Israel. Hands. Off. My. Palestine. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Reclaiming the Name That Exists Only Because Israel Does What is Palestine? The question seems straightforward. It isn’t. Ask different people, and you will get radically different answers. There is no Palestine. Palestine is Jordan. Palestine is Gaza and Judea and Samaria. Palestine is the State...

Sep 15, 2026, 6:01 PM

Speaking of justice, Your Majesty — why is Tamimi still free?

September is when the United Nations General Assembly holds its opening session at UN headquarters in New York City each year. Jordan’s King Abdullah II has flown in to speak at the event eighteen times in the twenty-six years...

Sep 15, 2026, 1:44 PM

Jordan Shows When Israel Goes to War

Israel is often portrayed as a state that reaches instinctively for force. Yet its longest and quietest frontier tells a rather different story. Along the border with Jordan, where violence once flowed freely, Israeli guns have largely fallen silent....

Sep 9, 2026, 2:14 PM

Kahlat and the Hidden Archive of Section 60: Jordan River and Copper Scroll

Geographic Background and Identification Traditions: Ein Samiya versus Ein Kahlat Over the years, research on the Copper Scroll has examined several sites in an attempt to identify the mysterious location called “Kahlat.” Ein Samiya (in the Wadi Yitav system): The largest...

Aug 30, 2026, 6:09 PM

Jericho area: A New Hypothesis on Mysterious Latin Letters in the Copper Scroll

The Copper Scroll: Are Its Mysterious Foreign Letters Codes Used by Ancient Water Engineers? The Uniqueness of the Jericho District and the Concentration of the Greek Signs One of the most striking features of the Copper Scroll is not the meaning...

Aug 21, 2026, 6:52 PM

Copper Scroll: From the Pool of Siloam to the Jordan River Basin and Qumran

Trying to Decipher Section 47 of the Copper Scroll: A New Hypothesis on the Hidden Engineering of the Pool of Siloam. Following the hydro-archaeological analysis that proposed identifying Section 46 of the Copper Scroll with the mysterious tunnel at Ramat...

Aug 11, 2026, 7:53 PM

Judean Desert: Are we Closer to Solving the Mystery of the Copper Scroll?

The Copper Scroll: From a Treasure List to a National Infrastructure Survey? 1. Introduction: The Hydraulic Paradigm Since its discovery at Qumran in 1952, the Copper Scroll (3Q15) has presented scholars with one of the most intriguing puzzles among the Dead...

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