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Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Oct 16, 2026, 4:45 PM

Internal Terror Beats External Territory: Israel’s Real Election Issue

It’s almost a cliché to say that Israel’s elections are won or lost on the territorial issue of the West Bank / Judea & Samaria. Not this time! The question of Israel’s ultimate borders is still salient, but when people...

Oct 11, 2026, 2:07 PM

Why Somalia’s JF-17 Ambitions Could Become a Costly Mistake

Fighter Jets for a Fragile State: Why Somalia’s JF-17 Ambitions Could Become a Costly Mistake Reports that Somalia may acquire JF-17 Thunder multirole fighter jets from Pakistan have generated understandable excitement in Mogadishu. After decades of state collapse, the prospect...

Andy Blumenthal

Oct 11, 2026, 4:48 AM

The AI Race Is Also a Race for Survivability

Building more powerful AI is only half the challenge. Israel must ensure essential capabilities keep working under attack—and recover when defenses fail. The cloud is not in the sky. It has an address. Behind every AI service is physical equipment that...

Oct 2, 2026, 9:57 AM

Israel’s Balkan Embrace Comes with Dangerous Historical Baggage

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Israel has never had the luxury of treating history as merely history. For a country whose national consciousness was forged by the Holocaust, the memory of collaboration, persecution, ethnic cleansing and genocide is not an academic exercise. It is part...

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 -...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 22, 2026, 2:37 AM

Bag Ortega Before the Houthis Bag Haifa

Houthi missile batteries have officially entered a kamikaze phase, mimicking the exact suicide tempo that the Iranian regime deploys against global shipping and sovereign cities on this side of the world. Illustrating the stakes, Saudi air defenses intercepted a...

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...

Yaakov Chaliotis

Sep 15, 2026, 1:46 PM

Netanyahu’s $3.5 billion answer to the isolation argument

Israelis have spent much of the past two years hearing that their country is becoming internationally isolated. Then, on August 31, Greece signed a €3.035 billion (roughly $3.5 billion) agreement that will place Israeli technology at the center of...

Sep 10, 2026, 11:35 PM

Sudan’s Chemical Weapons and the New Red Sea Security Order

Sudan‘s largest oil refinery set ablaze, sending thick, black smoke over Khartoum, the country’s capital. (AP Photo)

The latest revelations about Sudan’s alleged chemical weapons program expose more than another escalation in a war already defined by atrocities. They show how foreign military relationships are becoming embedded in Sudan’s security system and why the consequences extend...

Andy Blumenthal

Sep 6, 2026, 7:18 AM

Israel Must Act. G-d Determines the Outcome.

Even after all these years, Israel’s ability to meet danger with courage, intelligence, and resolve still inspire awe. +1 These were not routine achievements. They required intelligence, meticulous planning, technological skill, courage, and the resolve of soldiers and commanders who shoulder...

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