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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

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Hamas Disarms for Cameras, Kills for Power

Hamas Disarms for Cameras, Kills for Power

The latest United Nations report on Gaza exposes the fraud at the center of every negotiation with Hamas. The terrorist group tells diplomats it may...

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Dear President Aoun

Dear President Aoun

My name is Jose Lev. I am an American-Israeli scholar, veteran, and member of a people that has buried too many of its sons because leaders mistook...

10.06.2026 40

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

America’s New Anti-Israel Left-Right Consensus

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...

09.06.2026 60

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Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge Must Be Israeli

Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge Must Be Israeli

On June 6, 2026, Israeli forces struck Beirut’s Dahieh district after Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks on northern Israel. Iran had threatened...

08.06.2026 60

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Macron’s Beaufort Blunder Reveals European Decline

French President Emmanuel Macron declared on May 29, 2026, that “nothing justifies the Israeli strikes conducted in southern Lebanon.” He called...

01.06.2026 50

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Sánchez: The Head of Spain’s Corruption Snake

On May 27, 2026, agents from the Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard stormed the national headquarters of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party...

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Guterres Shields Offenders While Targeting Israel

António Guterres has spent nine years claiming to combat sexual exploitation while presiding over an institution that shields its own offenders. At...

29.05.2026 60

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Israel Must Prepare for the ‘Great Western Aliyah’

Israel absorbed nearly one million Jews from the former Soviet Union during the 1990s. That influx reshaped the country. Soviet émigrés arrived with...

28.05.2026 70

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Europe Needs Israel to Join the European Union

Europe is careening toward strategic irrelevance as Iranian proxies tighten their noose around its southern flank and radical Islam spreads through...

27.05.2026 60

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

France: A Future Islamic Nuclear Power?

France stands at an existential demographic, cultural, and geostrategic crossroads that could permanently transform Europe and reorder global power....

26.05.2026 60

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Hezbollah’s Criminal Infrastructure Inside Israel

Hezbollah has weaponized segments of northern Israel’s criminal underworld, converting it into a durable instrument of Iranian hybrid warfare. What...

25.05.2026 60

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Pakistan Betrays America—Again

Pakistan is stabbing America in the back. While masquerading as a neutral “mediator” in the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict and hosting the ceasefire...

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Israel’s Pragmatism Exposes Western Delusion

In geopolitics, adaptation builds strength while rigid ideology breeds stagnation and defeat. Israel demonstrates this principle through measurable...

22.05.2026 70

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While Europe Lectures, Uganda Backs Israel

Lieutenant General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, commander of Uganda’s 45,000-strong army and son of President Yoweri Museveni, recently did what no European...

21.05.2026 60

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Trump Must Play the Falklands Card on Iran

The South Atlantic is no frozen backwater. It straddles vital sea lanes linking the Atlantic and Pacific, commands access to Antarctic resources...

20.05.2026 50

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Mamdani Hates Israel. Stop Pretending Otherwise.

American Democratic Jews who consider themselves Zionists must abandon Zohran Mamdani. He advances a clear anti-Israel agenda while using a small...

19.05.2026 60

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Hezbollah Is Plotting to Kill Lebanon’s Leaders

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam have done what too many of their predecessors refused to do: openly accuse Hezbollah of...

18.05.2026 70

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Abbas Re-Elects Himself. Iran Wins.

Fatah’s Eighth General Congress on May 14, 2026, delivered exactly what the Palestinian political system always produces: stagnation disguised as...

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How Britain Is Quietly Bankrolling North Korea

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...

16.05.2026 70

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Berbera Is the Noose: Israel’s Eritrea Play

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...

15.05.2026 60

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Iran’s West Bank Terror Finance Pipeline

In the northern hills of the West Bank, the Jenin Brigades—an alliance of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, Hamas operatives, and breakaway...

14.05.2026 60

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

‘Indiana Trump’ Barks Again; No Bite Yet

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...

13.05.2026 70

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Barcelona: Europe’s Capital of Crime and Islamism

Barcelona stands today as Europe’s clearest warning of what happens when mass illegal immigration, organized crime mafias, and Islamist...

12.05.2026 90

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Israel’s Iraq Gambit: Tehran’s Uranium Encircled

The Wall Street Journal investigation into Israel’s secret forward base in Iraq’s western desert offers more than a wartime footnote. It supplies...

11.05.2026 60

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Israel’s Somaliland Gambit: Red Sea Power Shift

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...

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SCOTUS Ends Racial Gerrymandering

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...

08.05.2026 60

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Israel Must Strip Iranian Spies of Citizenship

Bahrain has delivered a masterstroke of sovereign realism. Last week, the kingdom stripped 69 individuals and their immediate family members of...

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Hezbollah’s Assault on the New Syrian Regime

The new Syrian government is under direct assault from Hezbollah remnants determined to wreck the post-Assad transition. Since toppling Bashar...

07.05.2026 80

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Hamas’s Hollow Elections: Abu Suhaib Endures

Hamas’s internal leadership elections confirm that the group has no interest in moderation or disarmament. The terror organization has elected...

06.05.2026 80

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Hezbollah’s Drones Challenge Israel’s Edge

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...

05.05.2026 80

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Trump Re-Arms for Iran Rematch

The Trump administration has moved at remarkable speed to reinforce its Middle Eastern partners. On May 1, Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved...

04.05.2026 70

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

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...

02.05.2026 70

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

King Charles’ Qatar Cash: UK’s Islamism Reckoning

Between 2011 and 2015, then-Prince Charles of Wales accepted three cash payments totaling €3 million from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al...

01.05.2026 90

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Iran’s Mines Tighten Their Grip on Hormuz

During the 2026 military campaign against Iran, as American and Israeli forces struck Iranian military targets, the regime responded with one of its...

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How America Can Isolate Spain Within NATO

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...

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Lebanon Must Crush Hezbollah for Peace

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held urgent security consultations on April 27, 2026, after Hezbollah fired rockets and drones into the...

27.04.2026 60

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Abrahamic NATO: Iron Dome to Mutual Pact

Iranian missiles hammered the United Arab Emirates in April 2026. Facing saturation attacks, Abu Dhabi turned not only to Washington but also to...

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

The Rise of Trump’s Eurasian Swing States

A cluster of Eurasian middle powers — Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Turkey, and Pakistan — now control the vital overland...

26.04.2026 100

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Pakistan Replaces Oman as US-Iran Broker

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....

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Hormuz Hostage: The Great American Capitulation

President Donald Trump rightly eviscerated Barack Obama over the 2015 nuclear deal and the $1.7 billion in cash secretly airlifted to Tehran. That...

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Turning Point USA’s Antisemitic Realignment

When Charlie Kirk was killed at a Turning Point USA event in Utah on September 10, 2025, many conservatives—including myself—pointed to the...

22.04.2026 90

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

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...

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Olé, Spain: Israel’s Multidomain Play Now!

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is now demanding that the European Union suspend its association agreement with Israel. Jerusalem should welcome...

20.04.2026 90

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The Soros Network Captures Hungary Through Magyar

The Open Society Foundations began operating in Hungary in 1984 under the leadership of George Soros, a Hungarian-born Jewish Holocaust survivor. Over...

19.04.2026 70

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Britain and Spain: Europe’s Hollow Warriors

In the geopolitics of the North Atlantic and western Mediterranean, Britain and Spain have become the leading voices of the European left. Their...

16.04.2026 100

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Meloni’s Israel Betrayal and the EU Trap

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on April 14, 2026, that Italy will suspend the automatic renewal of its 2003 defense agreement with...

15.04.2026 90

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Bibi: Drop Spain’s Sánchez Pegasus File Now!

Nations do not spy on their friends. In May 2021, Moroccan intelligence used Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to infect the cellphone of Spanish Prime...

14.04.2026 100

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Spain Is Arming Iran

When American and Israeli strikes hit Iranian military targets in March 2026, most European governments offered polite words of concern and quickly...

13.04.2026 90

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Iran’s Hormuz Tollbooth Empowers Rogue States

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...

12.04.2026 80

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Hamas Defies America — Iran Shows Why

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...

11.04.2026 90

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