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Jose Lev Alvarez GomezThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
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...
The American left is so desperate to weaken President Donald Trump before the midterms that it is doing something absurd on its face: laundering...
The war against the Ayatollah’s regime is destroying more than launchers, depots, and proxies. It is destroying alibis. For decades, much of the...
The West keeps pretending this war against the Ayatollah’s regime is only about centrifuges, missiles, and enrichment levels. Iran’s most...
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...
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