Foreign policy is not about hoping things work out, it is about having leverage, a clear stance, and knowing where to draw the lines. For years, European governments seemed to…
There is no way around it: the upcoming national election on October 27 carries far more weight than just another political contest. This is not about bickering over procedures, airing…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…