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Sep 3, 2026, 7:51 PM

Who Are the Palestinians?

Three Questions Rolled into One The question sounds simple enough to answer with a sentence, but it is not, because it bundles three separate questions that popular argument routinely collapses into one: who are the biological and cultural ancestors of...

Aug 24, 2026, 1:57 PM

Israel’s Conflict Is Bigger Than Borders

Image is free for publication on a commercial platform. If it is, please provide a credit in the caption of the image.. Free download available for non-commercial and commercial use from the website Pexels of a protestor carrying a Palestinian flag amidst smoke and flames in Gaza, the URL is https://www.pexels.com/photo/protestor-in-gaza-holding-palestinian-flag-in-smoke-36038663/

What if the most difficult question facing Israelis and Palestinians is not where a future border should run, but whether the two national movements can ultimately accept each other’s right to exist—and what happens when decades of diplomacy fail...

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...

Aug 20, 2026, 8:34 PM

From Amalekism to Palestinianism

At the end of this week’s parasha, Ki Teitzei, the Torah issues one of its most disturbing commands: “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you came out of Egypt… how he attacked you on the way...

Aug 19, 2026, 7:51 AM

Trump’s Gaza Plan — The Only Game in Town

Hillary Clinton is probably not the person most people expected to make one of the strongest arguments for Donald Trump’s Gaza policy. Speaking with The New Yorker’s David Remnick at New York’s 92NY in June, the former secretary of state...

Aug 17, 2026, 7:00 PM

Israel Will Price Riyadh’s Exit From the Dependence It Bought in Ankara and Islamabad

Riyadh bought protection from Ankara and Islamabad and imported their vetoes into its own security core. Neither will fight Saudi Arabia’s war with Iran; both need Tehran intact, while Turkey shields Hamas and profits when IMEC stalls. Jerusalem will...

Aug 16, 2026, 12:00 PM

‘Free Palestine’? Let’s Talk About Freedom

A lone protester outside my embassy raised an obvious question: How would replacing the Middle East’s only free country with yet another authoritarian Arab state advance the cause of freedom? As I drove back to the embassy today, one man...

Aug 16, 2026, 12:35 AM

Ceuta is occupied, but Morocco’s keffiyists don’t care

Morocco’s keffiyists will march for every occupied land on earth, except their own. (AI-generated).

There is a species of political activism – performative, selective, and exquisitely comfortable – that flourishes in Morocco’s cities every time a crisis erupts thousands of kilometers away, and that vanishes into absolute silence the moment the crisis sits...

Aug 12, 2026, 10:47 PM

Denying Israel as a Sovereign Jewish State

The favorite term employed by those who would deny the Jewish people sovereignty over their ancestral homeland, Israel, was The Zionist Entity. That derogatory term was adopted in the mid-1950’s to delegitimize Israel even before the founding of the...

Aug 10, 2026, 7:57 AM

Normalization from the Saudi Perspective: Part II

Crown Prince Abdullah and Kissinger's realpolitik miscalculation During my tenure as an American defense contractor working in support of the Saudi Air Force, I found myself in a detailed conversation with Dr. Henry Kissinger. The region was transitioning through a...

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