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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...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 18, 2026, 5:16 AM

Israel Must Protect the Mecca Holy Sites

Fifth-century Yemen supplies the modern State of Israel with a vital historical precedent that Middle East analysts foolishly ignore. When the Himyarite Jewish king Abu Kariba As’ad marched to raze the Kaaba, two traveling rabbis halted the demolition by...

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, 9:24 AM

Why I’m Changing My Mind About Trump’s Naval Blockade of Iran

In June I wrote that the strategy behind the American naval blockade was to provoke Iran's implosion, and I doubted the instrument could deliver it. Six days ago I showed that no blockade in the past century has ever...

Aug 5, 2026, 6:31 AM

The Gulf Must Choose: Iran’s Missiles Today or Iran’s Nuclear Bomb Tomorrow

The attack was ready. Trump said so himself. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on August 2, he explained his decision to call off a planned strike on Iran. He claimed the request for restraint came from Saudi...

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