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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 9, 2026, 12:56 PM

Maduro Fell. Hezbollah’s Venezuelan Network Lives

When arsonists torched four ambulances belonging to the Jewish emergency service Hatzola in London’s Golders Green on March 23, 2026, the initial reaction from the British authorities followed a painfully familiar script: caution, bureaucratic hand-wringing, and a desperate hope...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 7, 2026, 8:00 PM

An Iranian Coup Is Coming for the Strait of Hormuz

Washington’s most enduring and destructive foreign policy pathology is wishful thinking. For decades, the American foreign policy establishment has pinned its hopes on the mirage of Iranian moderation, treating the Islamic Republic as a conventional state acting on rational...

Aug 7, 2026, 12:43 AM

Should You Get Back Together With Your Ex?

My breakup with Confident Guy, my first love, was your typical first love breakup. First loves tend to feel like your only love. Like your last. I had said those three sacred words to other men before but needed...

Aug 4, 2026, 7:34 AM

The Petrodollar Loses Ground in New Delhi

The crisis in West Asia forces a major financial shift. Attacks in the Red Sea disrupt global shipping routes. India buys massive amounts of oil from the Gulf to keep its economy running, and buyers rely on the US...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 3, 2026, 6:33 PM

CENTCOM: Here Are Some Ways to Pressure Iran

CENTCOM’s search for creative ways to pressure Iran exposes a strategic failure. Airstrikes destroy facilities and delay programs but seldom dismantle the mechanisms keeping the Islamic Republic solvent and cohesive. Tehran earns hard currency, reserves scarce resources for loyalists,...

Aug 2, 2026, 4:59 AM

Tehran’s Final Gamble and Iran’s Dark Horizon

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 02: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a Medal of Honor Ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 02, 2026 in Washington, DC. Trump awarded three soldiers the highest military decoration; Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds, who died in 1985, for shielding Jewish prisoners from Nazi guards during World War II; then-Staff Sgt. Terry Richardson for saving 85 lives of fellow soldiers during the Vietnam War; and Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis who died in the Afghanistan War when he shielded another soldier from a suicide bomber. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The U.S. media also reported that Trump is considering, or has ordered preparations for, a new phase of military operations against the Iranian regime that could begin as early as this weekend, and that it will focus on Iran’s...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 1, 2026, 10:07 AM

Spain Lost Ceuta: Morocco Must Now Finish the Job

Spain has lost control of Ceuta. On July 30, 2026, Madrid’s sovereignty over its Northern African colonial enclave evaporated as tens of thousands of Moroccan nationals—primarily military-aged men, alongside subsidized families—swam around the Tarajal breakwater, bypassed maritime defenses on...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jul 28, 2026, 3:31 PM

Pickaxe Mountain: Turn Tehran’s Shield Into a Trap

President Trump’s threat to strike Pickaxe Mountain exposes the gap between rhetoric and reality. Iran’s Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La rises 1,608 meters in the Zagros, just 1.5 kilometers south of Natanz. Analysts place its main halls at least 100...

Roy Jankelowitz

Jul 26, 2026, 9:25 PM

Riding Islam: Turkey’s Bet on Jerusalem

Dor Moriah Turkey Survey (Allowed for publication via Dor Moriah)

The neo-Ottoman claim, the Turkic bloc, and the Baku test — why the Turkish threat aims not at Gaza but at the symbolic center On June 28, the Israeli government unanimously approved a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide — a...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jul 26, 2026, 9:16 PM

Israel Must Stop Iran from Rebuilding Proxy Armies

Israel has repeatedly shattered Hezbollah and Hamas on the battlefield, only to watch them rebuild for the next war. The problem is not a lack of Israeli military power or resolve, but a lack of political will to resist...

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