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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 18, 2026, 5:16 AM

Israel Must Protect the Mecca Holy Sites

Fifth-century Yemen supplies the modern State of Israel with a vital historical precedent that Middle East analysts foolishly ignore. When the Himyarite Jewish king Abu Kariba As’ad marched to raze the Kaaba, two traveling rabbis halted the demolition by...

Sep 16, 2026, 10:19 PM

After Six Years of the Abraham Accords, Two Paths for the Middle East

On January 9th, 2026, I boarded a direct flight from Tel Aviv to Dubai. It still felt remarkable. I did not think, growing up, that such a flight would exist in my lifetime — and six years ago, it...

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 12, 2026, 5:08 PM

Abu Dhabi turns the economic screws on Iran

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was not just being courteous when he spoke about the UAE’s decision to stop commercial and financial dealings with Iran. Asked if Abu Dhabi was taking the lead after Washington urged a break with...

Sep 9, 2026, 8:31 AM

How to Read UAE’s Non-Denial of the Alleged Oct 7 Warning

The Statement Itself On September 8, 2026, the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to a Haaretz investigation alleging that President Mohammed bin Zayed personally warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of an imminent Hamas attack roughly ten days...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 7, 2026, 4:25 AM

Israel Must Smash Iran’s Andean Terror Hub

On September 1, 1932, a mere eighteen policemen stood between Colombian sovereignty and subversion when forty-eight Peruvian terrorists captured the isolated Amazon port of Leticia in just fifteen minutes. Separated by 600 miles of treacherous Andes and dense jungle,...

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...

Aparajita Acharya

Aug 26, 2026, 8:53 PM

The Identity Shift Reshaping the Gulf

For centuries, political analysis has repeatedly taken the identities of a particular moment and treated them as structural facts. But identities have astonishingly short political half-lives. Geopolitically identities have found life, succeeded , suffered from and failed- variably. Identities of...

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 20, 2026, 9:24 AM

Why I’m Changing My Mind About Trump’s Naval Blockade of Iran

In June I wrote that the strategy behind the American naval blockade was to provoke Iran's implosion, and I doubted the instrument could deliver it. Six days ago I showed that no blockade in the past century has ever...

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