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Oct 7, 2026, 6:45 AM

Imagine If This Plane Had Landed in Israel

Flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 A6-FKF at Dubai International Airport, 2 January 2026. This aircraft was later involved in the terrorist attack on Flydubai Flight FZ1073. Attribution: UB-TY144, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Flydubai terrorist attack has everything a conspiracy theorist could want. Except, inconveniently, the plane had landed in Saudi Arabia. Imagine for a moment that Flydubai flight FZ1073 had landed in Israel. More ominously, imagine that it had crashed. The jihadi co-pilot...

Oct 4, 2026, 8:50 AM

Trump’s Warning and the Future of Red Sea Security

President Donald Trump speaks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud after his arrival to King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

President Donald Trump’s recent comments on the deteriorating security situation in the Red Sea deserve serious attention. In a Truth Social post highlighting Saudi Arabia’s reported preparations to challenge Houthi control over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Trump drew a...

Oct 1, 2026, 11:27 PM

After FZ1073, Europe Spoke in Different Voices

The passengers, the captain, and the cabin crew of Flydubai flight FZ1073 are heroes. When catastrophe threatened, they acted. They fought back, helped regain control of the aircraft, and saved lives. What happened afterward was less straightforward. European capitals struggled...

Purna Lal Chakma

Oct 1, 2026, 1:01 PM

Should Israel Allow All-Muslim Cockpits on Israel-Bound Flights?

After the FZ1073 incident, Israel faces a difficult aviation-security question: should all-Muslim cockpits on Israel-bound flights receive additional scrutiny? AI editorial illustration created by the author for this article.

On September 30, 2026, Flydubai Flight FZ1073 was flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv when, for roughly 30 seconds, the Boeing 737 carrying more than 170 people plunged nearly 14,000 feet. Inside the cockpit, Captain Smit Machchhar was bleeding...

Oct 1, 2026, 7:17 AM

Terror at 34,000 Feet

At 3:05 a.m. UTC on September 30, Flydubai Flight FZ1073 lifted off from Dubai bound for Tel Aviv. For more than two hours, there was little to distinguish it from the thousands of commercial flights crossing the Middle East every...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 30, 2026, 11:39 PM

Saudi Tabuk Action Prevents an Israeli 9/11

Netanyahu’s disastrous wishful thinking routinely leads our country to misread the Middle East, treating fleeting tactical relief as a geostrategic victory. The catastrophic vulnerability of this regional security architecture became undeniable on September 30, 2026, when Flydubai flight FZ1073...

Sep 30, 2026, 12:22 AM

Are the Saudis Pushing Back on the Houthis?

Yemen's government forces have spent the past two weeks doing something they had not managed in this round of the war: attacking. On September 20, army units backed by warplanes and drones repelled a Houthi push south of Marib,...

Sergio Restelli

Sep 27, 2026, 4:49 AM

Houthi attacks Saudi Arabia as Mecca Pact remains non operational

Barely seven weeks after Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, repeated Houthi attacks on Saudi territory have presented the new security arrangement with its first serious challenge. Missiles and drones have targeted civilian, military and...

Sep 25, 2026, 6:14 PM

The Gulf’s Gaza Dilemma

Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan has run into a problem familiar to diplomats: the two sides agree on the destination but not on who moves first. Hamas wants an Israeli withdrawal before surrendering its weapons; Israel wants Hamas disarmed...

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...

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