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Victor Satya

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Does Israel Need an American Green Light? Or Have We All Agreed It Does Anyway?

Does Israel Need an American Green Light? Or Have We All Agreed It Does Anyway?

Few nations fight wars; fewer still are told, in real time, whether another capital has nodded in approval of them doing so. The Permission Slip...

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Victor Satya

My Journey From Passive Belief to Defending Israel

I used to think neutrality was the intellectual high ground—until I realized it often just meant borrowing other people’s conclusions while...

01.04.2026 30

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When Terrorism Needs a Co-Author: The Rise of ‘Both Sides’ Journalism

Both-sides-ism in the Israel context is not a call for balance; it is a rhetorical laundering mechanism that turns terrorism into a ‘perspective,’...

22.03.2026 40

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From Left to Right: The Art of Making Israel the Scapegoat

A strange and ideologically incoherent coalition across the American far-left and segments of the populist right has converged on a conspiratorial...

21.03.2026 60

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The World’s Strangest Legal Doctrine

The moment Israel and the United States struck Iranian targets on February 28, the world experienced a remarkable legal awakening. International law,...

15.03.2026 50

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Interviewing a Ghost: When Huckabee Met the New Tucker

You can’t debate 2026 Tucker with 1996 nostalgia. The Awkward Waltz There are awkward interviews. And then there are interviews where you begin to...

24.02.2026 80

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Nakuru Kibbutz? How Borderless Antisemitism Reached Kenya

A 520-acre farm in Kenya becomes a “Zionist settlement,” a greenhouse becomes a colonial outpost, and social media becomes foreign policy. From...

21.02.2026 100

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Everlasting Peace, As Imagined by Israel’s Enemies

27.01.2026 40

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Peace in Our Time, Again: Washington Declares Peace While the Middle East Waits

27.12.2025 100

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Which Way, Mr. Vice President? JD Vance and the Art of Strategic Sympathy

24.12.2025 40

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Israel as Accountant-in-Chief for Its Adversaries: Efficiency Over Ethics

17.12.2025 30

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Light a Candle, Pass a Law: Australia’s Theatre of Solidarity after Bondi

16.12.2025 30

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A Beginner’s Guide to Middle East Translation (Warning: Reality Inside)

13.12.2025 30

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Israel Didn’t Survive Because of America — America Came Because Israel Survived

12.12.2025 30

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Israel: The Middle East’s Only Indigenous Outsider

30.11.2025 60

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After Gaza: Israel’s Moment to Learn or Repeat History

22.11.2025 80

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Breaking: Radical Hate Marches from Shabbat Straight Into Sunday Service

25.10.2025 70

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When Israel Vetoes Its Own Security: The Gaza Peacekeeping Paradox

19.10.2025 50

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Like Schwartz in the Top Hat: Israel and the Waiting Game of Friendship

18.10.2025 50

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Victor Satya

East African Media and the Battle of Gaza Narratives 

27.09.2025 80

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Victor Satya