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Purna Lal Chakma

Sep 5, 2026, 10:10 AM

Did Pakistan Defeat India in the Chittagong Hill Tracts?

An AI-generated editorial illustration of PCJSS President Jyotirindra Bodhipriya “Santu” Larma and former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina around the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord. The open agreement, surrendered rifle, white dove and Indigenous representatives symbolize PCJSS’s choice of peace and hope for a better Bangladesh. Created by the author using AI; not a historical photograph.

In December 1997, India appeared to secure an important political success without firing a shot. The Bangladesh government and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti, or PCJSS, signed the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, ending more than two decades of...

Alexander Lutsenko

Aug 30, 2026, 3:07 PM

The sunflowers of Ilovaisk and the Jews and Israelis who died defending Ukraine

The sunflowers of Ilovaisk and the Jews and Israelis who died defending Ukraine. The image was created using AI.

On August 29, Ukraine remembers those who gave their lives defending the country’s independence and territorial integrity. For Israelis, the emotional meaning of such a day needs a little explanation. It is not the Ukrainian equivalent of Yom HaZikaron —...

Yaakov Chaliotis

Aug 26, 2026, 8:40 PM

A C-17 and a Closed Door: What Ratcliffe’s Moscow Visit Tells Us — and Doesn’t

A US Air Force C-17 landing at Moscow's Vnukovo airport is not proof of a diplomatic breakthrough. A motorcade on New Arbat Avenue is not evidence of a secret bargain. But put those details alongside one confirmed fact. CIA...

Purna Lal Chakma

Aug 24, 2026, 2:24 PM

Israel-Turkey Tensions: Would Russia or America Back Erdoğan Against Israel?

Turkey stands at the center of competing strategic pressures involving Israel, Russia, NATO, Ukraine and the new Makkah defence framework. Illustration created by the author for editorial purposes.

For years, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has tried to keep Turkey close to competing powers at the same time. Turkey remains a NATO member, maintains important relations with Russia, supports Ukraine militarily, and is expanding its influence in Syria, where...

Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Aug 24, 2026, 12:40 AM

Tshurbes, Mud and blossoming

On August 24, Ukraine marks its Independence Day. In 2026 the date cannot be separated from the war that followed Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Yet another August comes to mind. On August 21, 1968, Warsaw Pact forces entered...

Brodie Mitchell

Aug 23, 2026, 10:44 PM

The Question Nobody Wants To Answer: Why Israel?

Let's get this straight. Every country deserves scrutiny. But why are ordinary Israelis met with hostility and seen as personally responsible for their government's actions when citizens of any other country are not held to the same standard? The...

Aug 23, 2026, 5:41 PM

Walking Between the Raindrops: Israel Needs to Rethink Its Ukraine Policy

With the future of the post-Trump alliance between Israel and the United States shaky and uncertain, Israel must seek a formidable new ally. The potential for a powerful strategic alliance between Israel and Ukraine is hardly, if ever, discussed,...

Alexander Lutsenko

Aug 18, 2026, 2:09 PM

Yevhen Konovalets returns to Ukraine: Jews who stood beside him in his struggle

Yevhen Konovalets returns to Ukraine: Jews who stood beside him in his struggle. The image was created using AI.

On August 18, 2026, Yevhen Konovalets was reburied at Ukraine’s National Military Memorial Cemetery near Kyiv. His remains had been exhumed at Rotterdam’s Crooswijk cemetery on August 11 and returned to Ukraine on August 13, ending an 88-year period...

Andy Blumenthal

Aug 16, 2026, 7:18 AM

Israel Needs a Drone Army—Before the Next War

At the Combined Resolve exercise in Germany this spring, Ukrainian drone operators faced US forces and reportedly detected and simulated strikes against American troops and armored vehicles so effectively that exercise controllers had to return “destroyed” units to the...

Alexander Lutsenko

Aug 12, 2026, 9:09 PM

Ukraine’s 2,000-Hryvnia Note: Ukrainian Poet Stus, a Jewish Prisoner and Israel

Ukraine’s New 2,000-Hryvnia Note: Vasyl Stus, the Jewish Prisoner Who Saved His Poems, and the Israeli Connection. The image was created using AI.

On September 4, 2026, Ukraine will introduce a new 2,000-hryvnia banknote into circulation, worth roughly NIS 130. Its face will bear the portrait of Vasyl Stus — one of the most important Ukrainian poets of the 20th century, a...

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