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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Nov 5, 2026, 12:40 AM

Liberman’s Moscow Pivot: Surviving U.S. Aid Cuts

President Donald Trump’s Election Day declaration that Washington will terminate roughly $4 billion in annual military assistance to Israel by year’s end—citing an earlier understanding with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—collides directly with a congressionally appropriated memorandum running through fiscal...

Oct 31, 2026, 10:22 AM

Russia Must Explain How Foreigners Promised Civilian Jobs End Up in Its Army

In April, seven Honduran men answered job offers sent over WhatsApp: farm work, masonry, plumbing. In Russia, they were locked in a building watched by cameras. Their passports were taken. Five escaped through second-floor windows. Two older men, in...

Oct 30, 2026, 3:51 PM

Iran, Trump and Netanyahu: Escalation or a Deal the Week after US Midterms?

WTI crude oil is trading today at $103.8 per barrel, according to OilPrice.com—a level that reflects market concerns about escalation and supply disruptions amid the continuing confrontation between the United States and Iran. On the one hand, there are reports...

Oct 18, 2026, 9:45 AM

Could Putin Use a Low-Yield Nuclear Bomb at Chernobyl to End War with Ukraine?

More than four years after Vladimir Putin launched what he called a “special military operation” in Ukraine, the Kremlin faces a reality it almost certainly did not anticipate in February 2022: Ukraine has neither surrendered nor ceased to inflict...

Nikolai Kolya Nakhshunov

Jul 28, 2026, 12:07 AM

An Israeli Artist against Putin’s Propaganda

Moshe Shamah. Laughter Enkindles. Series: To Those Who Fight For Life

Propaganda is a means of war aimed at the civilians. Despite the distinctions between war, armed conflict and a “special military operation” becoming blurred, propaganda continues to portray a common existential enemy that is both pitiful and all-powerful. In...

Jul 25, 2026, 11:21 PM

Netanyahu Is Not Putin and Israel’s War Is Not Russia’s

Thomas Friedman compares Benjamin Netanyahu to Vladimir Putin. I reject that false equivalence.

Putin invaded a sovereign country to conquer it. Israel is fighting enemies that openly seek its destruction.

Netanyahu can be criticized. His decisions can be debated. But Israel’s war for survival is not Russia’s war of conquest.

False equivalence is not analysis.

Read my full response: “Netanyahu Is Not Putin — and Israel’s War Is Not Russia’s.”

Thomas Friedman’s New York Times column comparing Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin is forcefully written, but it is built around a false equivalence and a series of assumptions presented as established fact — especially when it comes...

Jun 17, 2026, 12:14 PM

Beijing, Pyongyang, Tehran, Geneva, and G7: Is Nuclear Non-Proliferation Back?

Trump, Xi, Kim and the Nuclear Question: Is a Broader Strategic Dialogue Emerging? At the conclusion of President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing and his announcement on May 18 that the planned strike on Iran had been canceled, a series...

May 24, 2026, 12:35 AM

A 100-Year Territorial Settlement for Ukraine?

Russia retains occupied territory for a century, then returns it to Ukraine I once met Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, at my workplace in London’s Covent Garden. After a brief and warm exchange, I asked if...

May 20, 2026, 8:20 PM

As Washington, Beijing, Moscow, Tehran and Jerusalem Converge, Wars May End

Image: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin during talks in Beijing. Photo: AP.

With the conclusion of President Trump’s visit to China and his sudden announcement on Monday, May 18, postponing the planned military strike, signs are growing that a broader global arrangement may be taking shape — one in which the...

May 10, 2026, 3:53 PM

Europe Was Born When Evil Was Defeated, Not Invited to the Table

Europe Day is the story of a continent whose wars turned destruction into order, enmity into partnership, and coal and steel into peace. That is why it is dangerous: its beauty tempts us to forget that beneath the open...

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