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Jose Lev Alvarez GomezThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Pakistan is stabbing America in the back. While masquerading as a neutral “mediator” in the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict and hosting the ceasefire...
In geopolitics, adaptation builds strength while rigid ideology breeds stagnation and defeat. Israel demonstrates this principle through measurable...
Lieutenant General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, commander of Uganda’s 45,000-strong army and son of President Yoweri Museveni, recently did what no European...
The South Atlantic is no frozen backwater. It straddles vital sea lanes linking the Atlantic and Pacific, commands access to Antarctic resources...
American Democratic Jews who consider themselves Zionists must abandon Zohran Mamdani. He advances a clear anti-Israel agenda while using a small...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam have done what too many of their predecessors refused to do: openly accuse Hezbollah of...
Fatah’s Eighth General Congress on May 14, 2026, delivered exactly what the Palestinian political system always produces: stagnation disguised as...
In a recent interview on GB News, the United Kingdom’s Business and Trade Secretary, Peter Kyle, outlined efforts to strike trade deals to boost...
The Red Sea has turned into one of the planet’s most volatile flashpoints. More than 19,000 vessels carrying 12 to 13 percent of global trade steam...
In the northern hills of the West Bank, the Jenin Brigades—an alliance of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, Hamas operatives, and breakaway...
In the brutal chessboard of Middle Eastern geopolitics, the Spanish proverb perro que ladra no muerde—a dog that barks does not bite—now defines...
Barcelona stands today as Europe’s clearest warning of what happens when mass illegal immigration, organized crime mafias, and Islamist...
The Wall Street Journal investigation into Israel’s secret forward base in Iraq’s western desert offers more than a wartime footnote. It supplies...
On December 26th, 2025, Israel became the first country to formally recognize Somaliland as an independent state. This was not a symbolic gesture or a...
On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued a 6 to 3 decision that struck a powerful blow for electoral integrity. In...
Bahrain has delivered a masterstroke of sovereign realism. Last week, the kingdom stripped 69 individuals and their immediate family members of...
The new Syrian government is under direct assault from Hezbollah remnants determined to wreck the post-Assad transition. Since toppling Bashar...
Hamas’s internal leadership elections confirm that the group has no interest in moderation or disarmament. The terror organization has elected...
In late April 2026, a fiber-optic first-person-view drone struck an Israeli armored unit in the village of Taybeh in southern Lebanon, killing Israeli...
The Trump administration has moved at remarkable speed to reinforce its Middle Eastern partners. On May 1, Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved...
United States envoy Tom Barrack told the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on April 17, 2026, that the Middle East only functions under powerful leadership...
Between 2011 and 2015, then-Prince Charles of Wales accepted three cash payments totaling €3 million from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al...
During the 2026 military campaign against Iran, as American and Israeli forces struck Iranian military targets, the regime responded with one of its...
Spain’s refusal in March 2026 to grant the United States access to the U.S. Naval Station in Rota and the Morón Air Base for strikes against Iran...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held urgent security consultations on April 27, 2026, after Hezbollah fired rockets and drones into the...
Iranian missiles hammered the United Arab Emirates in April 2026. Facing saturation attacks, Abu Dhabi turned not only to Washington but also to...
A cluster of Eurasian middle powers — Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Turkey, and Pakistan — now control the vital overland...
Oman is out as Washington’s Iran backchannel. In under six weeks, the Gulf sultanate that once hosted every quiet U.S.–Iran contact lost its seat....
President Donald Trump rightly eviscerated Barack Obama over the 2015 nuclear deal and the $1.7 billion in cash secretly airlifted to Tehran. That...
When Charlie Kirk was killed at a Turning Point USA event in Utah on September 10, 2025, many conservatives—including myself—pointed to the...
With Israel and Lebanon working towards a longstanding peaceful settlement and neutralizing Hezbollah’s terrorist machinery, the moment has arrived...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is now demanding that the European Union suspend its association agreement with Israel. Jerusalem should welcome...
The Open Society Foundations began operating in Hungary in 1984 under the leadership of George Soros, a Hungarian-born Jewish Holocaust survivor. Over...
In the geopolitics of the North Atlantic and western Mediterranean, Britain and Spain have become the leading voices of the European left. Their...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on April 14, 2026, that Italy will suspend the automatic renewal of its 2003 defense agreement with...
Nations do not spy on their friends. In May 2021, Moroccan intelligence used Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to infect the cellphone of Spanish Prime...
When American and Israeli strikes hit Iranian military targets in March 2026, most European governments offered polite words of concern and quickly...
Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz -the world’s most vital energy chokepoint- into a brazen state-run tollbooth. Around 20.9 million barrels of...
Hamas has once again spat in the face of the Gaza Peace Board. As the U.S.-led disarmament deadline expires this weekend, its armed wing—hiding...
Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his government to immediately begin direct peace negotiations with the Lebanese...
Iranian state television declared today that the Iranian-mined Strait of Hormuz was closed once again. Minutes later, maritime tracking data from...
The two-week ceasefire President Donald Trump announced with Iran, supposedly conditioned on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, is no American victory....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel has destroyed Iran’s nuclear weapons production infrastructure and established...
The French police thwarted a bomb attack outside the Bank of America headquarters in Paris on March 28. Officers arrested a 17-year-old suspect of...
The State of Israel has proposed that the United States plant permanent military bases on its territory. Jerusalem wants Washington to relocate...
Israel is not neutral in Ukraine. Pretending otherwise now is either naivete or evasion. Ukraine is where the Russia-Iran drone model is being tested,...
Iran did not break the Middle East. It revealed who can defend it. For years, Arab capitals tried to treat Israel and Iran as separate problems. That...
Puerto Ricans can yield a constitutionally eligible president of the United States, yet they still cannot vote for one. That is not a quirk. It is not...
President Trump is showing decisive American leadership by surging 3,000 elite paratroopers and nearly 5,000 Marines into the Gulf. This powerful...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has not failed in the Iran war because it is confused. It has failed because, when American power is...