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Jun 4, 2026, 4:34 AM

Tel Aviv celebrates what its neighbors criminalize

Tel Aviv Pride, 2019 – where rainbow flags and the Star of David meet in one of the region’s most visible displays of LGBTQ+ freedom. (Ted Eytan / Wikimedia Commons)

On June 12, a quarter-million bodies will press against the Mediterranean shoreline of Tel Aviv-Yafo for the 28th edition of what has calcified into the most consequential Pride procession in the Middle East – and, by any honest geopolitical...

Jun 2, 2026, 6:31 PM

Values, Culture, and the Search for Peace

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

Values, Culture, and the Search for Peace Most of us grow up with a basic understanding of right and wrong. We are taught to tell the truth, not to steal, to respect others even when we disagree with them, and...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 1, 2026, 8:03 AM

Macron’s Beaufort Blunder Reveals European Decline

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech next to the submarine 'Le Temeraire' (The Temerarious) at the Nuclear submarines Navy base of Ile Longue in Crozon, France, Monday March 2, 2026. (Yoan Valat/Pool Photo via AP)

French President Emmanuel Macron declared on May 29, 2026, that “nothing justifies the Israeli strikes conducted in southern Lebanon.” He called Israel’s operations unacceptable under international law. Forty-eight hours later, the Israel Defense Forces seized Beaufort Castle and the...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 27, 2026, 11:18 AM

Europe Needs Israel to Join the European Union

Europe is careening toward strategic irrelevance as Iranian proxies tighten their noose around its southern flank and radical Islam spreads through its streets and no-go zones. Israel is the hard-power partner the European Union can no longer afford to...

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...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 26, 2026, 6:55 AM

France: A Future Islamic Nuclear Power?

Shiite Muslim women march toward the French Consulate during a rally against French President Emmanuel Macron and the republishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

France stands at an existential demographic, cultural, and geostrategic crossroads that could permanently transform Europe and reorder global power. Reliable estimates place the Muslim population at 6 to 7 million—nearly 10 percent of the total. That share has exploded...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 25, 2026, 7:27 AM

Hezbollah’s Criminal Infrastructure Inside Israel

A Hezbollah supporter waves a flag with the portrait of the late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a protest against the Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, in front the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah has weaponized segments of northern Israel’s criminal underworld, converting it into a durable instrument of Iranian hybrid warfare. What began as cross-border narcotics smuggling has matured into a sophisticated, multi-layered apparatus for drug trafficking, intelligence collection, weapons smuggling,...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 20, 2026, 3:49 PM

Trump Must Play the Falklands Card on Iran

The South Atlantic is no frozen backwater. It straddles vital sea lanes linking the Atlantic and Pacific, commands access to Antarctic resources valued in the trillions in oil, gas, and minerals, and offers a potential forward base to counter...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 19, 2026, 2:13 PM

Mamdani Hates Israel. Stop Pretending Otherwise.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, right, and his wife Rama Duwaji wave at members of media after a news conference at Gracie Mansion, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

American Democratic Jews who consider themselves Zionists must abandon Zohran Mamdani. He advances a clear anti-Israel agenda while using a small circle of extreme-left Jewish activists as political cover. This tactic allows him to claim immunity from accusations of...

May 15, 2026, 7:38 AM

The deafening silence: Israel’s inexcusable absence from the Es-Smara chorus

The Polisario fires rockets to liberate a land it has never governed, while the people rotting in Tindouf’s camps remain its most neglected hostages.

When projectiles tore through the air above Es-Smara on the evening of May 5 – landing near a civilian prison, behind a cemetery, and wounding a woman whose only crime was existing in the vicinity of a conflict she...

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