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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 12, 2026, 4:44 AM

Southern Eyes: Crushing Iran’s Western Terror Hub

Long before the State of Israel woke up to the threat, the Islamic Republic of Iran recognized Latin America as its ideal strategic depth. The timeline of Tehran’s unchecked penetration is a damning indictment of regional security. In 2008,...

Aug 6, 2026, 1:04 PM

Syria, Iraq, and Trump’s Energy Bet

AI generated image of Donald Trump looking back at the flag of Iran amidst rubble in Tehran. Trump is moving beyond degrading Iran's nuclear ambitions or targeting the IRGC. The emerging objective is to weaken the regime's capacity to govern.

Can energy infrastructure reshape the Middle East’s strategic balance? The Trump administration appears to believe it can. By supporting the revival of a long-dormant Iraq-Syria oil pipeline, Washington is pursuing more than an infrastructure project. The initiative aims to reduce...

Aug 1, 2026, 5:09 PM

Treasure Trove: Who Should Not Live and Be Well?

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Torono (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow

After the 1967 Six Day War, the originator of the comic book hero Captain America produced a spoof on the war and its political aftermath. A Funny Thing Happened To Me on the Way to Tel Aviv is a...

Aug 1, 2026, 10:40 AM

How a Cornered Israel Could Drag the Whole World Into Nuclear Winter

Nine countries hold nuclear weapons. Eight of them can lose a city and still be a country the next morning. Russia could absorb a strike on Moscow and govern from a hundred other places across eleven time zones. The...

Rafael Baptista

Jul 23, 2026, 4:06 PM

The Mossad spy who never existed

Between 2013 and 2024, Syrian and Iranian intelligence services fueled a conspiracy surrounding Thwaiba Kanafani, according to which she was a spy working for Israel. The theory, first circulated by members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, spread like wildfire,...

Jul 23, 2026, 5:53 AM

An Iranian Civil War?

The Iranian people will surely have a better future if the country’s Islamist regime falls, right? Well, don’t be so sure. Inasmuch as Iranians deserve to be free of their Islamist oppressors, the fall of the Islamic Republic wouldn’t...

Shaike Komornik

Jul 22, 2026, 11:47 AM

Israel-Turkey Relations: Strategic Competition and Imposed Partnership

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Relations between Israel and Turkey, which began in 1949 as an unannounced regional alliance between two non-Arab powers in the Middle East, have witnessed an unprecedented deterioration over the past year. Israel’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide at the...

Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Jul 19, 2026, 2:09 PM

Syria’s leader charms the world, crushes the Druze. Israel should be wary

This handout photograph released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on November 10, 2025, shows US President Donald Trump (L) shaking hands with Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House in Washington DC. (Handout / SANA / AFP)

Sharaa seems to be a pragmatic diplomat, but before pursuing warmer ties, Jerusalem needs guarantees that he will stop repressing his minority citizens

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jul 15, 2026, 8:13 PM

Mount Hermon: Israel’s Alps

The Book of Dvarim lists four names for Mount Hermon. The first three, Hermon, Sirion and Snir are found in Dvarim 3:8-9: At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land beyond the Jordan, from...

Jun 27, 2026, 10:04 PM

Eilat 2035: How Israel Should Respond to the Saudi-Turkish-Qatari IMEC Challenge

According to reports published by TheMarker and Haaretz, Transportation Minister Miri Regev recently sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concerning the strategic implications of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) and regional developments. The letter demonstrates that...

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