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Jose Lev Alvarez GomezThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
From Israel’s perspective, eliminating senior Iranian figures such as Ali Larijani is not about symbolism. It is about dismantling the Islamic...
A person born in Puerto Rico can run for president of the United States. This should not be a recurring national puzzle. It should be basic civics....
Spain’s government has mistaken Israeli restraint for weakness. After years of diplomatic insults, embargoes, canceled defense deals, downgrades,...
Israel’s reported elimination of Ali Larijani and Basij chief Gholamreza Soleimani means more than another successful strike. It shows the war has...
In today’s Spain, where too much of the press has traded conviction for access, Grupo Libertad Digital stands out as the country’s last major...
Iran is not fighting this war alone. Although Tehran launches missiles and drones, outside powers help keep the regime alive. Beijing helps it sell...
If Tehran or one of its proxies strikes US territory—especially the mainland—the war changes in a single hour. Until then, Washington can still...
For years, critics treated Israel’s missile defenses as an expensive umbrella: useful, defensive, and strategically limited. However, that judgment...
Reports that Beirut is again floating direct talks with Israel should be read not as progress but as a warning; the State of Israel has seen this...
A growing strand on the American Right now argues that Israel is a foreign policy liability—an expensive entanglement draining U.S. resources. The...
When Israel comes under fire, international airlines suspend flights to Tel Aviv within hours—driven by rising risk, insurance costs, and airspace...
Iran boasts about airpower; however, only the State of Israel and the United States are the ones who actually exercise it within the current...
This is not an Israeli operation with American support; it is a coordinated U.S.–Israeli campaign designed as a joint strategic intervention from...
The Gulf sells a powerful illusion—endless desert, limitless resources, and cities rising effortlessly from the sand. Dubai’s skyline and Saudi...
Iran is not a country in the conventional sense—it is a contained fracture. ‘Persia’ is held together not by cohesion, but by force, timing, and...
For decades, much of the international system has misunderstood Israel’s power—measuring it through size, geography, and conventional force. That...
For much of modern economic history, income has been tied to effort. Labour generated wages; capital generated returns; human judgment mediated risk....
The debate is over. Iran’s nuclear and missile programs are not a future threat—they are a present strategic reality. The real question,...
When read chronologically rather than rhetorically, a coherent strategic architecture becomes visible: deny permissive hemispheric nodes to rival...
Yoseph Haddad is not arguing about a coalition — he is exposing a strategic crossroads Israel can no longer avoid. For too long, a segment of Arab...
Israel’s claim to sovereignty is often debated through the language of twentieth-century diplomacy, mandates, and international law, yet its deeper...
U.S.–Iran negotiations have collapsed. Not with drama, but with inevitability. For years, diplomacy slowed escalation without stopping it. What was...
Europe loves lecturing the world about “values.” Meanwhile, power is being consolidated in the shadows—far from Brussels, beyond the EU’s...
In a Middle East addicted to volatility, the Barzanis built something unfashionable: a sharp alignment with the West that actually delivers. For...
By any serious geopolitical metric, sending US Secretary of State Marco Rubio—not US Vice President J. D. Vance—to the 2026 Munich Security...