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Aug 29, 2026, 2:11 PM

IRGC’s Unit 4000: The Architecture of Terrorism

IRGC military personnel at a military rally in Tehran, Iran, on November 24, 2023. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via AP)

In the age of digital terrorism, the Islamic Republic’s most dangerous operative may arrive neither in an IRGC uniform nor with an Iranian passport or a bomb, but through a Telegram message, a cryptocurrency wallet, and the perfectly ordinary...

Aug 29, 2026, 9:26 AM

Constructing Peace / Constructing Images: AI and Human Endeavors

Constructing Peace

By Joe Nalven + ChatGPT + Claude What follows is a catalogue essay for an exhibition that was never mounted. It places an AI-generated image of Gaza reconstruction beside the Board of Peace, a body with a charter, a chairman,...

Aug 27, 2026, 9:05 PM

Washington’s D-Day Pivot: Can Finance Do What Force Has Yet to Achieve?

A US-protected oil corridor is weakening Tehran’s leverage in the Strait of Hormuz, while expanded sanctions are targeting the financial networks that sustain Iran. China—and the response inside Iran—will determine how far the strategy can go. Six months of war...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 27, 2026, 12:06 PM

Mossad Must Stop Collaborating with MI5 and MI6

Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government is currently drafting legislation to ban British trade with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. Whitehall officials still softly whisper that commerce with Israel “inside the 1967 lines” will remain unaffected. But this distinction...

Aparajita Acharya

Aug 26, 2026, 8:53 PM

The Identity Shift Reshaping the Gulf

For centuries, political analysis has repeatedly taken the identities of a particular moment and treated them as structural facts. But identities have astonishingly short political half-lives. Geopolitically identities have found life, succeeded , suffered from and failed- variably. Identities of...

Aug 26, 2026, 8:24 PM

India’s Route to Europe Runs Through Israel

Chat GPT generated sketch of an original picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Narendra Modi, prime minister of India, in 2026. Credit: Ma’ayan Toaf/GPO. New image available for commercial and non-commercial use.

Could a rail line, a port and a network of cables do what years of diplomacy have failed to accomplish—bind India, the Gulf, Israel, and Europe into a common strategic interest? The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, or IMEC, was conceived...

Aug 24, 2026, 2:03 PM

The Imperative for Climate Week 2026

Climate (Inequality) week 2026 | All rights are reserved to Carmit Lubanov ©

The Mediterranean Energy Paradox: How Financial Inequality is Derailing the Clean Transition Ahead of Climate Week NYC & the 81st UN General Assembly (September 2026), as world leaders convene in New York for Climate Week 2026, the global dialogue is...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 24, 2026, 5:30 AM

Bennett and Liberman Must End the Palestinian Mess

Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Lieberman correctly reject diplomatic fantasy, but turning that rejection into hard-nosed architecture requires shattering the West’s favorite delusions. For decades, the archaic Israeli foreign policy establishment chased the mirage of a centralized Palestinian state, creating...

Solomon Naftaliyev

Aug 23, 2026, 6:19 PM

Israel’s National Security Strategy

In the 21st century, as terrorism spreads globally, national security has become a fundamental aspect of states’ foreign policies. The methods and tools used to counter existential threats depend not only on the specific regions involved but also on...

Aug 21, 2026, 6:53 PM

President Trump’s Middle East Blind Spot

President Trump’s Middle East blind spot presents a fundamental problem when dealing with the broader Islamic world. Trump approaches foreign policy as a deal-maker. His instinct is to identify the other side’s interests, put a price on the table, and...

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