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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 9, 2026, 6:14 AM

America’s New Anti-Israel Left-Right Consensus

Fifteen years ago, both major American political parties treated Israel as a strategic asset in the Middle East. Gallup’s 2011 surveys showed clear majorities sympathizing more with Israelis than with Palestinians across Democratic and Republican ranks. By February 2026,...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 2, 2026, 9:46 PM

Sweida Druze Flag Israel’s Buffer Zone

United States envoy Tom Barrack told the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on April 17, 2026, that the Middle East only functions under powerful leadership regimes — benevolent monarchies or monarchial republics. Everything else, he said, faded away after the Arab...

Stephen M. Flatow

Apr 30, 2026, 4:07 PM

Memory lane: From gas lines to price spikes: what the 1970s still teaches us

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The lines are gone, but America’s vulnerability to global oil shocks hasn’t disappeared—it’s just changed form. There was a time—not so long ago—when Americans didn’t just complain about the price of gasoline. They wondered whether they could get any at...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 21, 2026, 7:32 AM

Israel Keeps Golan as Syria Joins Abraham Accords

With Israel and Lebanon working towards a longstanding peaceful settlement and neutralizing Hezbollah’s terrorist machinery, the moment has arrived for a full normalization with Syria too. This means diplomatic recognition, economic ties, and a strategic partnership under the Abraham...

Allen S. Maller

Apr 10, 2026, 5:50 PM

‘From River to Sea Both Sides Must Free Themselves Of Hatred and Suffering’

Iran says that they want a permanent end to the the many violent conflicts of the Near East. The 1979 peace treaty signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was witnessed by President Jimmy Carter...

Mar 31, 2026, 7:31 PM

Globalize the check-in

Every time I fly, I come home saying, “Never again”—not because of what happens while I’m away but because of what’s involved in boarding a plane. I’m just back in London from New York and I’m still not over...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Feb 6, 2026, 5:42 AM

Sinai Is Being Re-Armed—and the West Is Asleep

For forty years, the Sinai Peninsula was not demilitarized out of goodwill. It was stripped of heavy force because history proved that when massed armies sit across from each other in the Middle East, war is not a question...

Feb 5, 2026, 6:49 AM

Blame, Reality and the Middle East Narrative

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Blame, Reality and the Middle East Narrative: In today’s Middle Eastern conflict, Israel and Jews are routinely blamed for violence and war. Pro Palestinian activists often claim that Islam is a religion of peace and that Muslims are primarily victims...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jan 3, 2026, 11:52 PM

Maduro’s Fall and Israel’s Strategic Opening

Caracas did not simply fracture; it exposed a subterranean axis that for years connected Havana, Tehran, Moscow, and Caracas into a single anti-Western operating system. Under Chavismo, Venezuela was never an isolated petro-dictatorship. It was a node—trained, advised, and internally...

Richard Diamond

Dec 2, 2025, 5:23 AM

Why Won’t Bibi “Man Up” Like Golda Did? And Now Wants A Pardon!!

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When Israel’s leaders fail, the question isn’t “who messed up,” but “who takes responsibility.” In 1974, Golda Meir did something Benjamin Netanyahu shows no sign of doing: she looked at a broken, grieving country and concluded that, whatever the lawyers...

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