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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 3, 2026, 10:58 PM

Iran Tightens the Noose: Kuwait Must Choose Israel

Kuwait stands on the precipice of an avoidable catastrophe that Western weapons cannot avert. For decades, bloated defense procurement has yielded an armed force optimized for twentieth-century desert tank warfare, leaving the nation blind to twenty-first-century gray-zone coercion. Squandering...

Sep 1, 2026, 12:17 AM

Iran says Israel is the enemy. The graves tell another story

“Know your real enemy.” That was the message Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei recently delivered to the rulers of the Muslim world, particularly the Gulf states. He urged them to unite against Israel and the United States, blaming Muslim division...

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 24, 2026, 12:21 AM

Why Israel might be better off without the Abraham Accords

President Donald J. Trump, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan signs the Abraham Accords Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

There are two maps of the Middle East. One is drawn for television: flags, ambassadors, handshakes, denunciations, and summits. The other is drawn in rooms that do not appear on any floor plan: intelligence exchanges, defense coordination, commercial understandings,...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 22, 2026, 11:19 AM

‘They Will Not Silence Me’: The Voice of Marzieh Hamidi That Crosses Borders

On the night of August 17, the Arthur Rubinstein Theater at Hebraica São Paulo hosted Iranian-Afghan journalist and activist Marzieh Hamidi for the event “They Will Not Silence Me: A Voice That Crosses Borders”, organized by the club in...

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...

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,...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 3, 2026, 6:33 PM

CENTCOM: Here Are Some Ways to Pressure Iran

CENTCOM’s search for creative ways to pressure Iran exposes a strategic failure. Airstrikes destroy facilities and delay programs but seldom dismantle the mechanisms keeping the Islamic Republic solvent and cohesive. Tehran earns hard currency, reserves scarce resources for loyalists,...

Shaike Komornik

Aug 1, 2026, 5:13 PM

Disarmament on Paper, Doubt in Reality

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(Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

U.S. President Donald Trump announced over the weekend what he described as a "historic agreement" to disarm Hamas under the framework of the "Peace Council" he established as part of his "20-Point Plan." The announcement, published on Truth Social,...

Jul 30, 2026, 5:33 AM

Iran Is Emotionally Ready to Use a Nuclear Weapon

The nuclear age has held for eighty years on two emotions: the dread of one's own annihilation, and the horror of the innocent's. Tehran keeps showing it feels neither. For eighty years, the most important fact about nuclear weapons has...

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