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Oct 26, 2026, 5:04 AM

When Neighborhood Security Is National Security

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s September 29 visit to Riyadh was far from a routine meeting between two close allies. With maritime corridors, energy facilities and airports under repeated threat, Gulf security poses a question that goes past...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 24, 2026, 5:48 PM

Pacific Abraham Accords: Blocking China’s Advance

Israel’s admission into the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) as a partner will turn sympathy into a powerful foreign policy tool to pressure the periphery. For decades, PIF members have backed Israel with crucial votes at the United Nations General...

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.

Giovanni Giacalone

Oct 13, 2026, 2:06 PM

Is terrorism now directly infiltrating airline cockpits?

The Flydubai attack may be linked to a far wider network as, on Saturday October 10, two Maldivian pilots working for the airline were arrested by UAE authorities on suspicion of planning a terror attack, as reported by the...

Oct 9, 2026, 6:34 PM

Why do security files stop at borders that extremists cross freely?

Flydubai airplane at Ben Gurion airport (AP/Alon Bernstein)

After almost every terrorist attack, governments condemn, express solidarity and promise cooperation. Then the shock fades, and each returns to its own agencies and databases. Extremist ideas, money and recruiters cross borders more easily than the intelligence that might...

Oct 7, 2026, 6:45 AM

Imagine If This Plane Had Landed in Israel

Flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 A6-FKF at Dubai International Airport, 2 January 2026. This aircraft was later involved in the terrorist attack on Flydubai Flight FZ1073. Attribution: UB-TY144, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Flydubai terrorist attack has everything a conspiracy theorist could want. Except, inconveniently, the plane had landed in Saudi Arabia. Imagine for a moment that Flydubai flight FZ1073 had landed in Israel. More ominously, imagine that it had crashed. The jihadi co-pilot...

Michael Zoosman

Oct 5, 2026, 7:36 PM

Opposing the Death Penalty for the Perpetrator of the flydubbai Terror Attack

We, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty,” from across Israel, the United States, and the world, condemn the calls for the death penalty for the terrorist who perpetrated the flydubbai FZ1073 cockpit attack. Israeli...

Oct 1, 2026, 11:27 PM

After FZ1073, Europe Spoke in Different Voices

The passengers, the captain, and the cabin crew of Flydubai flight FZ1073 are heroes. When catastrophe threatened, they acted. They fought back, helped regain control of the aircraft, and saved lives. What happened afterward was less straightforward. European capitals struggled...

Oct 1, 2026, 3:57 PM

A Miracle in Plane Flight

This is an account of the nightmare that occurred at 34,000 feet, and the miracle that transpired at 17,000, aboard Flydubai airline’s flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The flight, carrying 174 people, was making its way toward Israel when,...

Purna Lal Chakma

Oct 1, 2026, 1:01 PM

Should Israel Allow All-Muslim Cockpits on Israel-Bound Flights?

After the FZ1073 incident, Israel faces a difficult aviation-security question: should all-Muslim cockpits on Israel-bound flights receive additional scrutiny? AI editorial illustration created by the author for this article.

On September 30, 2026, Flydubai Flight FZ1073 was flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv when, for roughly 30 seconds, the Boeing 737 carrying more than 170 people plunged nearly 14,000 feet. Inside the cockpit, Captain Smit Machchhar was bleeding...

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