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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 18, 2026, 5:57 PM

Snatch Ansari: The Gaza Blueprint for IRGC Terror

Israel's daring extraction of Hamas's internal-security chief, Muein al-Arabid, alive from Gaza City on September 1, 2026, proved exactly what meticulous planning can achieve. Shin Bet special forces spent months mapping his routines and identifying the gaps in his...

George Papasimakis

Oct 15, 2026, 12:17 PM

The Red Sea Trap: Is Israel Being Encircled?

An Israeli Navy Sa'ar 4.5 missile boat fires its cannon during a naval exercise. (Photo: Israel Defense Forces / Wikimedia Commons)

The collapse of the Assad regime in Damascus did not resolve Israel’s strategic vulnerabilities; it displaced and magnified them. While Israeli tactical planning has focused on securing dominant observation points on Mount Hermon and neutralizing immediate hostile infiltration, a...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 10, 2026, 1:38 AM

Zionism = Racism: The West’s Useful Idiots

Slogans of destruction do not generate their own light; they survive entirely on the patronage of tyrannical regimes. The United Nations General Assembly proved this axiom on November 10, 1975, when 72 states—mobilized by Soviet Cold War machinations and...

Purna Lal Chakma

Oct 6, 2026, 11:02 AM

October 7, Three Years Later: How the Price of War Reached Tehran

Editorial illustration showing the regional consequences of the October 7 war, from Hamas and Hezbollah to Iran, while Israel remains standing. Created by the author for editorial purposes.

At 6:29 a.m. on October 7, 2023, Hamas opened the deadliest day in Israel’s history. About 1,200 people were killed, more than 5,400 were injured in the immediate terrorist attack, and 251 people were taken hostage into Gaza as...

George Papasimakis

Oct 4, 2026, 1:22 PM

Why Israel Must Hold Hermon and the North

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz on Mount Hermon. (Israeli Defense Ministry)

In the brutal calculus of the Levant, geography is destiny. Modern warfare may be dominated by fifth-generation stealth aircraft, precision stand-off munitions, and autonomous strike systems, but the physical terrain still dictates whether a nation can survive a surprise...

George Papasimakis

Sep 22, 2026, 12:55 PM

The Syrian Trap: Why Israel Must Block a Turkish A2/AD Umbrella

Israeli Air Force F-35I Adir stealth multi-role fighter. (Photo: Maj. Ofer / Israeli Air Force)

For decades, Israel’s deterrence model and national survival have rested upon a single, undeniable operational reality: qualitative military edge (QME), manifested primarily through absolute air superiority. While surrounding regional actors often commanded massive standing armies and extensive conventional hardware,...

Alexander Lutsenko

Sep 22, 2026, 1:36 AM

Russia Fought Nuclear Pressure on Syria. Now It Is Doing the Same on Iran

Russia Fought Nuclear Pressure on Syria. Now It Is Doing the Same on Iran. The image was created using AI.

In September 2026, the IAEA finally resolved the Assad-era Syrian nuclear case while escalating its dispute with Iran. Russia had opposed international pressure in both files at crucial stages. The Syrian case now offers a rare chance to see...

Sep 21, 2026, 6:45 PM

Security Is a Shared Interest

The war in Gaza has left enormous pain and anger across the Arab world and far beyond it. Yet only days ago, Morocco and Israel agreed to take another step in the opposite direction: upgrading their diplomatic representation to...

Sep 17, 2026, 2:23 PM

September 17: The Day the Equation Changed

Two years ago today, on September 17, 2024, at 3:30 p.m., beeping sounds began to emerge from the pockets of thousands of Hezbollah operatives across Lebanon. Seconds later, the pagers began to explode. The following day came the second wave:...

Sep 15, 2026, 9:11 PM

Washington’s Syria referee has a conflict

A deconfliction cell requires both sides to believe the operator does not care which of them is right. Illustrative image. (Mitzpe Institute)

Tom Barrack is building the mechanism meant to keep Israeli and Turkish aircraft from shooting at each other over Syria — a standing deconfliction cell, staffed around the clock in Hebrew, Arabic, English and Turkish. He is also the...

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