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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...

Jun 20, 2026, 10:50 PM

Trump’s Turkey Bargain May Cost Israel

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Mrs. Emine Erdogan Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead). Wikimedia Common.

Behind the compliments lies a colder regional design There are betrayals announced by trumpet, and betrayals performed with a smile, a handshake, a press conference and a few vulgar compliments about “strength”. The latter are more dangerous, because by the...

Jun 17, 2026, 5:33 AM

The Icebreaker Effect in Trump’s Rhetoric

Commenting on a ‘Memorandum on a Memorandum’ without an officially published text remains premature. Yet, a more fundamental question arises today: why is an agreement framework being pursued with such persistence with those who do not represent the sole...

Jun 16, 2026, 11:44 AM

Reports of Israeli or US Defeat Are Greatly Exaggerated

In my last column, I argued that the reported Trump-Netanyahu blowup mattered less than the strategic realities beneath it. The United States and Israel had similar but not identical interests. Washington was trying to prevent a wider regional conflict...

Jun 16, 2026, 5:45 AM

Pride and Prejudice: When Inclusion Requires Exclusion

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Pride is supposed to be a celebration - A celebration of dignity. A celebration of identity. A celebration of belonging. For decades, LGBTQ activists fought to create spaces where people would not be judged by stereotypes, excluded because of who...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 9, 2026, 6:14 AM

America’s New Anti-Israel Left-Right Consensus

Fifteen years ago, both major American political parties treated Israel as a strategic asset in the Middle East. Gallup’s 2011 surveys showed clear majorities sympathizing more with Israelis than with Palestinians across Democratic and Republican ranks. By February 2026,...

Jun 8, 2026, 8:18 PM

Trump Turned the White House into a Licensing Desk for Foreign Powers

In the European Parliament, Qatargate 2022 showed foreign influence arriving through intermediaries and ending in raids, cash and criminal files. In Trump’s Washington, it walked through the front door, shook the president’s hand, licensed his name, entered his family...

Vorya Hossein Panahi Tazehabad

Jun 3, 2026, 3:18 PM

After the fall, will Iran be free or just different?

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The country I loved was the people, the language, the mountains... What will it take to bring it back and not risk suffering under a post-Islamic Republic regime?

Benjamen Gussen

May 26, 2026, 10:33 AM

The Death of the Middle East: The Abraham Accords and the Birth of the Med East

The Abraham Accords were not only a diplomatic breakthrough. They were the first clear sign that the region long called the "Middle East" had begun to outgrow the map that gave it that name. "Middle East" was never a native...

Domicela Heijmeriks

May 18, 2026, 5:10 AM

Trust Me, I Have Sources

Crowdfunding, conflict journalism and the performance of insider access For more than a decade, the disappearance of Austin Tice has remained one of the most haunting unresolved stories to emerge from the Syrian war. Governments searched for him, intelligence agencies...

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