Why Netanyahu Is Picking Fights Abroad to Fix His Polling at Home
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu steps up to speak at the UN General Assembly, people in Israel brace themselves for his classic show of big picture thinking. They expect hard…
October 7 Is Still Our Present
Three years after a national tragedy, you’d expect a country to have some distance, enough to look back, open up the archives, host academic conferences, add a few more plaques…
Israel’s Global Isolation Problem
Analysis on Foreign Policy, Diplomatic Vulnerabilities, and the Path to Democratic Renewal 1. The Cracking Pillars of Israeli Security For a long time, Israel’s whole approach to survival hinged on…
From Heroism to Accountability: Who Failed to Vet the Flydubai Cockpit?
1. Miraculous Survival and Immediate Heroism When disaster comes close but doesn’t quite hit, people breathe out, and then, weirdly, they start to forget the lesson. That sense of relief…
The Neo-Ottoman Threat
There’s a quiet but permanent shift happening across the Middle East right now. While the world’s attention keeps drifting to familiar battlefields, a more fundamental contest is brewing in the…
The Three Fronts Where Israel Defeated Itself
Three years after the horrors of Black Saturday, October 7, 2023, Israel’s still stuck in a brutal, sprawling conflict, fighting across seven fronts. It’s not just Gaza or southern Lebanon…
Target Netanyahu, Soften Israel: The Hidden Objective of Global Pressure
People love to talk about Benjamin Netanyahu, but most of the noise isn’t really about him, it’s about what he stands for. If you read Western editorials, flip through reports…
Why Diaspora Jews Should Vote in Tel Aviv
For years, the bond between Israel and the Jewish Diaspora has run along the same worn tracks. Whenever there’s a crisis, maybe rockets over Jerusalem, maybe diplomatic drama, antisemitism flares…
Slogans vs. Strategy: Why the Claims of Genocide and Apartheid Fall Apart
International legal terminology has become the sharpest weapon in modern asymmetric warfare. Terms like genocide, apartheid, war crimes, and proportionality were crafted in the shadow of the twentieth century to…
The flydubai Wake-Up Call
What happened on flydubai flight FZ 1073 jolted the region, a stark warning that something is off in the way Gulf airlines think about security. A first officer, originally from…