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George Papasimakis

Oct 22, 2026, 2:32 PM

The Turkey-Libya Accord: Threat to Israel

Visual representation of claims and maritime zones in the Eastern Mediterranean. Source: ProtoThema English

The geopolitical architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean is fracturing. With the Libyan Parliament’s recent moves to ratify the controversial Turkey-Libya maritime memorandum, the threshold of regional stability has been breached. Analysts routinely frame this as a technical bilateral dispute...

Sergio Restelli

Oct 22, 2026, 9:19 AM

Pakistan’s Expanding Defence Alliances: Strategic Ambition or Overreach?

The new defence agreement with Turkey, Qatar and Indonesia raises uncomfortable questions about ideological influence, Gulf rivalries and Islamabad’s growing appetite for commitments it may struggle to honour. Pakistan has discovered a new enthusiasm for defence alliances. On 21 October,...

Oct 18, 2026, 2:00 PM

October 7 Exposed the Security Cost of Israel’s Settlements in the West Bank

Israeli security forces guard as Jews tour in the West Bank city of Hebron, on January 31, 2026. Photo by (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)

Israel built more than settlements in the West Bank. It built a standing military obligation, then sold that obligation as security. Successive governments also preserved Palestinian division and accommodated a Qatari-funded Hamas whose survival served Ankara and Tehran. October...

Oct 17, 2026, 11:07 AM

India, IMEC, Saudi, Houthi: An Israeli Article on Benghazi Entered Libyan Politics

Image: Excerpts from posts on Tanasuh TV’s X account referring to the original article.

When an Israeli Analyst’s Article Becomes a Weapon in Libyan Politics.

George Papasimakis

Oct 15, 2026, 12:17 PM

The Red Sea Trap: Is Israel Being Encircled?

An Israeli Navy Sa'ar 4.5 missile boat fires its cannon during a naval exercise. (Photo: Israel Defense Forces / Wikimedia Commons)

The collapse of the Assad regime in Damascus did not resolve Israel’s strategic vulnerabilities; it displaced and magnified them. While Israeli tactical planning has focused on securing dominant observation points on Mount Hermon and neutralizing immediate hostile infiltration, a...

Oct 7, 2026, 9:21 PM

After Iran, the Strategic Vacuum

For several months, Israel has seen the weakening of Iran and its allies as a major change in its strategic environment. Hezbollah has been badly hurt, Bashar al-Assad’s Syria is gone, and Tehran must now focus more on its...

Oct 3, 2026, 10:52 AM

Before You Lecture Israel, Look in the Mirror

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk ( AI)

Before You Lecture Israel, Look in the Mirror There is something increasingly difficult for me to accept when I listen to governments across Europe and beyond lecture Israel about colonialism, stolen land, occupation, violence and even genocide. It is not...

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...

Kostis Konstantinou

Oct 1, 2026, 6:14 PM

Israeli Arms on Full Display – Cyprus’s Message

An Israeli-made BARAK MX air and missile defense launcher of the Cypriot National Guard is displayed during Cyprus’s Independence Day military parade in Nicosia, October 1, 2026. (Photo: Kostis Konstantinou)

The significance of Thursday’s military parade in Nicosia for the Independence Day of the Republic of Cyprus was not merely that the island, an EU member state, displayed Israeli weapons. It was that it chose to show them off -...

Kostis Konstantinou

Sep 29, 2026, 11:14 AM

The Walkout, the Empty Seats, and the Story Sold

Hiram Johnson, the American senator — not Aeschylus, as often claimed — is credited with saying that truth is the first casualty of war. Nowhere has that seemed more apt than in Gaza. We have had the absurdities about genocide; fairy...

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