A collection of 97 posts
Israel faces not a solvable conflict but a permanent condition—one requiring deterrence, “violent maintenance,” and historic patience—while confronting both regional enemies and a cultural battle in the West.
In Sudan, a civil war involving Arab supremacists backed by the UAE has left as many as 400,000 dead and displaced twelve million. The silence on campus is deafening.
Despite public displays of mutual support, the Trump–Netanyahu partnership is on shaky ground.
In recent years, large international NGOs have increasingly blurred the line between humanitarian work and political advocacy.
How activists at Médecins Sans Frontières shape Gaza disinformation.
Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.
Fragile ceasefires are holding for now, but the volatile region may be headed for another explosion next year.
Shadi Hamid has an uneasy conscience, and he doesn’t yet know what to do with it.
How the media perpetuates Gaza’s suffering.
How Muslim and Christian antisemitism have converged with anti-Israel sentiment—some of it justified—to fuel the Free Palestine protests across the West.
Netanel Flamer’s book about Hamas’s intelligence war on Israel could be read with equal interest by members of Western security forces, and by members of the very groups against which they struggle.
The “Gaza genocide” calumny has become the Left’s equivalent of the “stolen election” hoax on the American Right—a baseless accusation that signals ideological allegiance precisely because it defies logic and evidence.
Lessons from 7 October and the 2023–25 war.
Trump’s peace plan brings the hostages home and halts fighting in Gaza, but Hamas’s refusal to disarm and Israeli concerns about Palestinian statehood threaten the deal’s long-term survival.
What the Hughes/Smith debate tells us about the podcast era.