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Domicela Heijmeriks

May 19, 2025, 5:02 PM

The Red Line in The Hague Ignored One Side

Let me be clear from the start: I do not support the way Israel’s government has conducted this war. Netanyahu’s policies have been morally indefensible, from obstructing aid to the destruction of entire neighborhoods. But that’s exactly why I...

Cedric Vloemans

May 19, 2025, 5:01 PM

The forgotten refugees

The Zabib amily en route to Aden.
(Zoltan Kluger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Colourization by Josh Korn.)

A few days ago, the 'Nakba' was commemorated. For the Arab world, this represents the 'catastrophe' of the refugee flow resulting from the declaration of an independent Israel, and the war that followed after almost every Arab and/or Muslim...

Vincent James Hooper

May 17, 2025, 3:27 PM

CASE Dubai Fintech Summit 2025 &The Beating Heart of MENA’s Conference Ecosystem

Dubai’s meteoric rise as the preeminent conference hub for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is no accident—it is the result of visionary policy, world-class infrastructure, and a relentless drive to connect global minds. Nowhere is this more...

David S. Levine

May 15, 2025, 1:30 PM

This is what they pray for. The Numbers Don’t Lie.

Sources below.

In the early 1970’s, a New York University finance professor of mine said to our senior class, “give me one set of numbers and I will give you two sets of answers.” For most of my professional business career...

Andy Blumenthal

May 11, 2025, 8:30 AM

To Understand Israel, Look to Taiwan

Despite being separated by more than 8,300 kilometers, Israel and Taiwan stand as pivotal centers of global geopolitics. Each strives to safeguard its democratic and peaceful ways of life amid some of the world’s most contested environments. To understand...

Yoseph Janowski

May 8, 2025, 11:08 PM

Days are coming

Smotrich said that Israel is about to destroy Gaza, and many Gazans will emigrate to the safety of other countries. Israel bombed Yemen’s airport, power stations, and a factory (which produced cement for military use). This was in retaliation for...

May 6, 2025, 1:37 PM

Containment, not conquest: The Morag Corridor and the war over meaning

In the war of narratives, Israel's enemies traffic in symbols, erasing Israeli strategy

May 5, 2025, 5:54 AM

Symbolic Alliances vs. Operational Utility in Policy

Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has confronted a strategic landscape defined by encirclement, hostility, and diplomatic marginalization. In response to these conditions, Israeli strategists adopted the Periphery Doctrine during the Cold War, seeking alliances with non-Arab, geopolitically peripheral...

May 4, 2025, 5:36 PM

A Jew, an Arab, both Maestros

The speech that Elie Wiesel gave before President Bill Clinton and his wife at the White House on April 1999 was to become one of world’s most famous speeches. Its power laid in the combination of phenomenal rhetoric, shocking...

May 2, 2025, 12:38 AM

Is Jordan the Next Domino in Iran’s Regional Game?

As instability deepens across the Middle East in 2025, Jordan—long regarded as a bastion of pragmatic statecraft and relative calm—is edging toward a critical breaking point. Escalating violence in Gaza and the West Bank, Iranian proxy activity along its...

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