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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

Evan R. Bernstein

Sep 9, 2026, 11:55 AM

The Slavery Next Door, and the Apartheid Slur Aimed at Israel

A documented record of hereditary bondage, migrant auctions, kafala, and a Yazidi captive in Gaza—set against a Western vocabulary that reserves “apartheid” for Israel. Western capitals still treat “apartheid Israel” as settled moral language. Meanwhile, documented slavery and slave-like systems...

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,...

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