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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 11, 2026, 4:30 PM

Palestinian Statehood Threatens Arab Stability

Arab governments must reverse their long-standing support for a Palestinian state. Historically, this so-called “statehood project” has fractured regional sovereignty from within, presenting a direct national security threat to the wider Levant and the Gulf. Palestinian political and military...

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...

Oct 3, 2026, 10:16 AM

Why Morocco’s Israel policy outlasts its governments

Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri’s appointment as Morocco’s first woman head of government marks a historic political breakthrough. King Mohammed VI appointed her on September 29 after the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) finished first in the September 23 legislative...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 1, 2026, 10:18 PM

Israel’s Benghazi Option: Realism Over Diplomacy

Egyptian subversion greeted King Hassan II’s February 1961 ascension, as Gamal Abdel Nasser’s assassins actively targeted the new monarch. In response, Mossad intelligence exposed the plot and alerted General Mohamed Oufkir, allowing Moroccan troops to dismantle the hostile Casablanca...

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 21, 2026, 6:41 PM

My first academic paper on Israeli media is out. Here is what I found

Illustration depicting Israeli media coverage of Morocco. (AI-generated)

Shalom everyone, and Gmar Chatimah Tovah. I hope you are having a meaningful Yom Kippur. After months of research, revision, and close reading, my paper, “Adaptive Frames, Convergent Silences: Morocco in Israel’s English-Language Press across the Pre-Normalization, Normalization, and Post-October...

Sep 17, 2026, 4:35 AM

Beyond normalization: Morocco and Israel institutionalize a strategic bargain

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, US Ambassador to Morocco Richard Duke Buchan III, and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita meet to discuss the upgrade of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel on September 16, 2026. (Photo credit: Israeli Foreign Ministry)

The move from liaison offices to embassies is less a diplomatic revolution than the delayed completion of the 2020 compact – and the clearest evidence yet that the relationship has survived its hardest political test. Morocco and Israel’s decision to...

Yaakov Chaliotis

Sep 16, 2026, 3:06 PM

Three Thousand Missiles Later: Why the Abraham Accords Didn’t Break

When the Abraham Accords were signed six years ago today, the objection from sceptics was not that they were undesirable but that they were untested. Normalisation between Israel and three Arab states, brokered in a period of relative calm,...

Sep 13, 2026, 11:30 PM

This Arabic Jew

(from the authors personal library)

When I call myself an Arab Jew, it never fails to provoke both emotional and intellectual objections from those who insist there is no such thing. While Arabized may be the more historically precise term, I find it too...

Donna Robinson Divine

Sep 9, 2026, 3:00 PM

9/11: Beware of faulty connections

This frame grab taken from AFPTV video footage on September 9, 2026, shows a member of the Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces firing a heavy machine gun during clashes with Houthi fighters in the Al-Kadha area, west of Taiz province, on September 8, 2026. (AFPTV/AFP)

Passionate slogans and righteous emotions won't stamp out barbarism. That will take global cooperation and serious policymaking

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