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Jun 28, 2026, 6:31 PM

Lebanon Agrees to Be an Israeli Protectorate

Here is the trilateral framework agreement between the US, Israel, and Lebanon from the US State Department website. The key operational clauses are 2. and 3. The statements in the subsequent clauses are legalistic and clever. They seek to...

Jun 28, 2026, 11:30 AM

The Middle East’s Real Choice

The Israel–Lebanon agreement exposes two opposing strategies: defeating Iran’s proxies to restore sovereignty, or appeasing them while pressuring Israel. The framework agreement signed in Washington between Israel and Lebanon is more than a bilateral security arrangement. It is a strategic...

Jun 27, 2026, 10:07 PM

Israel doesn’t control Trump or the US any more than Jews control banks or media

Trump let Bibi drag him into Iran.’ I realize this is a single sentence but I’m so tired of the deeply misleading simplicity with which it is routinely written over and over. And I’m not going to link to the...

Jun 27, 2026, 10:06 PM

Diplomats Can Sign a Ceasefire. Relationships Keep the Peace.

Illustrative. AI image created by the author.

A ceasefire can be negotiated in conference rooms. Peace cannot. Diplomats may end the exchange of weapons, but only ordinary people can end the cycle of fear, resentment, and dehumanization that makes violence return. Lasting peace is sustained not by...

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 27, 2026, 5:46 PM

The Islamabad Memorandum

United States & Iran: orthographic projection (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

The Cartography of American Retreat and Israel’s Existential Reckoning - A Geopolitical Analysis History has a habit of disguising turning points as diplomatic events. The 1783 Treaty of Paris did not merely end the American Revolutionary War; it announced that...

Jun 27, 2026, 5:14 PM

Washington Mediates Historic Israel-Lebanon Framework Agreement

In a remarkable turn of events, Israel and Lebanon have signed a historic framework agreement in Washington, a move that many analysts are hailing as the most significant diplomatic breakthrough between the two countries in years. The agreement includes...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 25, 2026, 11:53 PM

Is America Now Part of Iran’s Axis of Resistance?

On June 25, 2026, Vice President JD Vance announced that the United States will place Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the same room as CENTCOM officers in Doha. According to Vance, the IRGC will “sit with” and...

Shamai Leibowitz

Jun 25, 2026, 10:54 PM

From Czar to Civil Rights

For centuries, Jews took the Mishnah's instruction literally: "Pray for the stability of the government..." (Pirkei Avot 3:2) Across Europe, communities recited a special prayer for the ruling monarch, Ha-Noten Teshuah ("He Who grants salvation to kings..."). Originating in 11th-century Germany, its purpose was survival:...

Jun 25, 2026, 11:03 AM

Interim Evidence Is Not a Verdict, and the Jury Is Not In

The game is still being played. One move may change the position, but it does not decide the game. (Unsplash)

In my last post, I argued that the war with Iran should not be measured against unattainable notions of total victory, but against the strategic realities that existed before October 7 and before the United States entered the conflict....

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