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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,...

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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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...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jul 28, 2026, 3:31 PM

Pickaxe Mountain: Turn Tehran’s Shield Into a Trap

President Trump’s threat to strike Pickaxe Mountain exposes the gap between rhetoric and reality. Iran’s Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La rises 1,608 meters in the Zagros, just 1.5 kilometers south of Natanz. Analysts place its main halls at least 100...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jul 26, 2026, 9:16 PM

Israel Must Stop Iran from Rebuilding Proxy Armies

Israel has repeatedly shattered Hezbollah and Hamas on the battlefield, only to watch them rebuild for the next war. The problem is not a lack of Israeli military power or resolve, but a lack of political will to resist...

Jul 19, 2026, 2:14 AM

The Sumud Flotilla’s new mission: casting Morocco as the Israel of Africa

On July 14, the Global Sumud Flotilla announced that it would release a 14-minute documentary titled “One Struggle: Western Sahara” on July 16. (AI-generated using content from Wikimedia Commons).

On July 14, the Global Sumud Flotilla announced that it would release a 14-minute documentary titled “One Struggle: Western Sahara” on July 16. The sprawling maritime coalition, which has spent the better part of a year sailing across the...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jul 15, 2026, 6:10 AM

This Is How America Wins in Iran and Weakens China

In the last two weeks, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has repeatedly claimed responsibility for missile strikes on several oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, branding the vessels as “offending supertankers that ignored warnings, turned off their...

Jul 13, 2026, 7:17 AM

Israel now needs years to fix what its war on Gaza did to its reputation

Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip on June 2, 2025. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit photographer / Wikimedia Israel.

There is a particular kind of tragedy – quieter than war, slower than siege, but no less devastating – in watching a country dismantle, with its own hands, the very diplomatic architecture it spent decades painstakingly constructing, and it...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jul 6, 2026, 3:29 AM

Arab Clan Violence Corrodes Israel’s Rule of Law

In 2025, 252 Arab citizens of Israel were murdered—the deadliest year on record. Arabs make up roughly 21 percent of the population yet accounted for 241 of the country’s 309 homicide victims. The homicide rate in Arab society reached...

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