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Ashtyako Poorkarim

Oct 30, 2026, 2:07 AM

Israeli Unity and the Independence of Nations

A Strategy to End the Threat from Tehran The reported results of Israel’s election, with 53 seats for Netanyahu’s bloc, 48 for Eisenkot’s bloc, and 19 for the Arab-led parties, have underscored the need for political agreement, although formal certification...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 29, 2026, 3:12 PM

Belize Slams Israel, Ignores Hezbollah in Corozal

Argentine investigators tracing the commercial fronts behind the 1994 AMIA bombing that killed 85 people later mapped a set of Lebanese import-export companies that had already penetrated Central American free zones by the late 1980s. Established primarily by diaspora...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 27, 2026, 1:07 AM

Brazil and Serbia Seal Black Day for Israel Allies

In a razor-thin victory, Brazilian voters re-elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—long shadowed by the Odebrecht corruption scandal—to the presidency with 51.79% of the vote (64.26 million ballots), defeating right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro at 48.21% (59.83 million). Simultaneously, across...

Oct 26, 2026, 10:45 AM

Mr. President, Iran Is Not Venezuela: Think Again!

Looking back at the foreign policy of your first term, one could argue that you had only two genuine successes: the elimination of two Islamic terrorists, Qassem Soleimani and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Unfortunately, you became so intoxicated, infatuated, and...

Oct 26, 2026, 10:45 AM

The Illegitimate Middle East Project

The Middle East on trial: if Israel’s legitimacy is open to debate, why should the rest of the region’s borders be beyond scrutiny? Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

If Israel Has No Right to Exist, Then No One Has Israel has a problem. According to its enemies, it is an artificial colonial construct, an illegitimate state imposed on the region by foreign powers, an obstacle to the self-determination...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 26, 2026, 1:58 AM

Smash Eagle 44 Before Iran Soars

Iranian engineers are rapidly reconstructing and expanding the Eagle 44 underground airbase, defying at least three separate U.S. and Israeli air assaults launched between late March and July 15, 2026. Recent imagery from as late as September 29, 2026...

Oct 25, 2026, 10:36 PM

What If? The Stability Dividend

The Stability Dividend | Carmit Lubanov ©

Lessons from Global Precedents — Why Regional Realism Is Israel’s Only Viable Strategy As Israel approaches an election that promises to be defining, public discourse remains trapped in a claustrophobic loop. The debate oscillates endlessly between tactical military skirmishes, political...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 25, 2026, 1:03 PM

Christians Butchered in Jordan. The West is Quiet

Moral accountability in modern diplomacy relies entirely on a perverse hierarchy of victimhood. Minor, localized provocations by radical Jews in Jerusalem trigger immediate, synchronized international condemnation across every social media ecosystem. Conversely, a wall of institutional indifference meets catastrophic...

Oct 23, 2026, 6:00 PM

MEK and KDPI: A ِLegacy of Terror and Betrayal

Ghassemlou and Rajavi meeting with Saddam Hussein in the 1980s — Baghdad, Iraq.

The Islamic Republic’s most hated cult, the terrorist Islamic Marxists of the MEK (Mojahedin-e Khalq), and their equally despised counterparts in the KDPI (Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran) represent two of the most repulsive faces of Iran’s discredited political...

George Papasimakis

Oct 22, 2026, 2:32 PM

The Turkey-Libya Accord: Threat to Israel

Visual representation of claims and maritime zones in the Eastern Mediterranean. Source: ProtoThema English

The geopolitical architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean is fracturing. With the Libyan Parliament’s recent moves to ratify the controversial Turkey-Libya maritime memorandum, the threshold of regional stability has been breached. Analysts routinely frame this as a technical bilateral dispute...

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