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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...

Sergio Restelli

Oct 22, 2026, 9:19 AM

Pakistan’s Expanding Defence Alliances: Strategic Ambition or Overreach?

The new defence agreement with Turkey, Qatar and Indonesia raises uncomfortable questions about ideological influence, Gulf rivalries and Islamabad’s growing appetite for commitments it may struggle to honour. Pakistan has discovered a new enthusiasm for defence alliances. On 21 October,...

Oct 12, 2026, 11:21 PM

Shadows in Doha

While senior defense officials and political leaders scrambled to navigate pathways for the return of hostages taken during the October 7 attack, a quiet operative inside the system set dangerous gears in motion. A special investigation reveals how an...

Oct 12, 2026, 12:13 AM

How Doha Bought Its Influence in Jerusalem

The Interview That Will Never Take Place Strategic Analysis as an Imagined Conversation: How Doha Bought Its Influence in Jerusalem’s Corridors of Power Editor’s Note: The following text is an exercise in strategic analysis formatted as an imagined interview that never...

Oct 7, 2026, 3:17 AM

How Soft Power Learns to Speak to AI

When the internet was still new, I once told my grandmother about people I had met online. She knew almost nothing about computers and listened to my explanation with some suspicion. Then she asked a question that made us...

Johnathan Orlianski

Sep 27, 2026, 12:55 PM

Qatar got a friendly. Israel got a lecture.

Before Ireland lectures Israel, it should confront its own antisemitic past

Sep 25, 2026, 5:41 PM

Will Iran Join a Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey Pact: What Would It Mean for the Houthis?

’According to Fox Business, oil began the week at $102 a barrel, fell to $97 by midweek, and is settling at $92.5 toward the end of the week. The decline signals that the oil market currently expects diplomatic easing...

Sep 25, 2026, 10:47 AM

The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Enemy

When Benjamin Netanyahu walked toward the podium of the United Nations General Assembly, dozens of diplomats began walking in the opposite direction. Most delegations from Arab and Muslim countries left the hall, while the United Arab Emirates remained. Netanyahu...

Sep 24, 2026, 8:44 AM

The Missing Variable in Israel’s Qatari Hamas Funding Debate

The current uproar over whether Benjamin Netanyahu ignored intelligence warnings that Qatari money was reaching Hamas's military wing is being argued almost entirely as a question of diversion: did specific dollars, transferred for humanitarian purposes, get siphoned into Muhammad...

Sep 24, 2026, 2:13 AM

Jordan’s king lectured Israel on Palestinians. His father shelled their camps

The king, emir and presidents who condemned Israel this week have records of their own, from Amman in 1970 to Tehran this January. On September 17, 1970, King Hussein sent his army against the Palestinian armed groups in Amman, Irbid...

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