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Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Oct 25, 2026, 6:33 AM

Important Lessons from Peace Negotiations

What are the most important lessons from past Israeli–Palestinian peace negotiations? For thirteen years, I researched and wrote Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Critical Study of Peace Negotiations, Mediation and Facilitation between Israel and the PLO (Cambridge University Press,...

Oct 23, 2026, 2:40 PM

A Naval Officer Invented the Middle East. We Still Live Inside His Map.

“If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else.” — Yogi Berra In September 1902, a retired American naval captain named Alfred Thayer Mahan published an essay in a London monthly about how Britain might keep Russia...

Allen S. Maller

Oct 19, 2026, 4:12 AM

The Costs of War Pre-Qiyamah

According to Brown University's 'Costs of War' research, 4.5 million people have been killed since 2001, most of them in Muslim countries. Over the past quarter-century, 320,405 people have been murdered in Islamic terrorist attacks. Jihadist branches are spreading...

Richard H. Schwartz

Oct 7, 2026, 11:20 AM

Commanders for Israel’s Security: Why Its Voice Deserves Serious Consideration

At a time when Israel faces extraordinarily difficult security, diplomatic, and demographic challenges, one Israeli organization deserves particular attention: Commanders for Israel’s Security (CIS). Its positions are controversial in some political circles, particularly its advocacy of eventual separation from...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 28, 2026, 4:03 AM

⁦⁧איפה משה היום?⁩ | ⁧أين موسى عليه السلام اليوم؟⁩ | Where Is Moses Today?⁩

Pharaoh’s Guide to Modern Political Leadership When you cannot answer the accusation, commission a biography of the accuser. A satire on the "modern" press "office". The first rule of machiavellian political leadership is straightforward: when someone asks what you have done,...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 27, 2026, 4:56 AM

Analysing Moses – Take off your Sandals.

Taking Off Your Sandals: Humility Before God, Responsibility Before Others Approach revelation with humility. Trust God with the unseen. Use your intellect—and protect other people’s rights. Moses عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ approaches a fire. Then he hears a command that changes the significance...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 26, 2026, 1:27 PM

The best perfume you can wear.

What the everyday conduct of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ teaches us about the impression we leave on others. Before leaving home, we check the mirror. We straighten a collar, adjust our hair and perhaps apply a little perfume. We want our...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 22, 2026, 3:18 AM

The Civilian Black Box

The Civilian Black Box When an airliner crashes, we search for the black box. We recover the flight-data recorder. We recover the cockpit-voice recorder. Investigators reconstruct what the aircraft was doing, what its systems were doing, what the crew knew and what happened...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 19, 2026, 1:43 AM

On Urban Planning – Multiple use city spaces.

The Two-Job City Cities have a space problem. Land is expensive. Roads consume enormous areas. Roofs sit beneath sunlight while rainwater is sent immediately into drains. Walls absorb heat. Car parks bake in the sun. Streetlights illuminate roads at night and...

Sep 15, 2026, 3:22 AM

The 2026 BRICS Declaration: The Grammar of EMDE-Centrism

PM Narendra Modi at BRICS Summit Session on “Inclusive Global Governance and Strengthening Multilateralism” at Bharat Mandapam, in New Delhi on September 12, 2026. (Photo Credit: PIB/Govt. of India).

From a bureaucratic category to a language of collective leverage, the New Delhi Declaration shows how BRICS is weaving EMDEs into its claims over capital, representation, and the architecture of global economic governance. On September 12, 2026, BRICS leaders unanimously...

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