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Poll: 49% of Americans Believe the U.S. Should Arrest Netanyahu

Poll: 49% of Americans Believe the U.S. Should Arrest Netanyahu

The question no other polling had asked The July 25–27, 2026 Economist/YouGov poll adds an important new data point to an opinion trend that has...

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Reframing Vance, Rubio, and the Iran War’s Unfinished Business

Reframing Vance, Rubio, and the Iran War’s Unfinished Business

Boundary Testing, Not Rebellion The debate over who bears responsibility for the failed strategic objectives in the Iran episode has become a contest...

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Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Non-Deal: What Riyadh’s Non-Response Reveals

Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Non-Deal: What Riyadh’s Non-Response Reveals

On July 23, 2026, the United States announced a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. The Department of Energy’s own release did...

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Did JD Vance Know What FBI Source Charles Johnson Was Alleging

Did JD Vance Know What FBI Source Charles Johnson Was Alleging

Part III — When Allegations Become Public Narratives When the FBI’s Confidential Human Source (CHS) memo alleging ties between Jeffrey Epstein...

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Israel’s American Influence Operation

Israel’s American Influence Operation

Architecture, Objectives, and Failure In the summer of 2026, a detailed picture emerged of a coordinated effort by the Israeli government to reshape...

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The deeper obstacle for the Abraham Accords: Political Theology

The Twin Pillars of Peace Two structures were supposed to carry the region past endless war: the Board of Peace, authorized under UNSC Resolution 2803...

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Why Is Vance Claiming Epstein Had Ties to US and Israeli Intelligence?

Part Two: Beyond the Epstein-Barak Connection The first part of this analysis examined what the documented relationship between Ehud Barak and Jeffrey...

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What Does the Barak–Epstein Connection Tell Us?

Intelligence Adjacency versus Espionage During his recent interview with Joe Rogan, Vice President JD Vance made a striking claim. Jeffrey Epstein, he...

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What Iran’s chemical weapons reveal about deterrence psychology

Netanyahu’s Admission and the Strategic Puzzle It Creates In a July 8, 2026 interview on Newsmax’s The Record with Greta Van Susteren, Israeli...

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Rahm Emanuel – Israel’s Flashing Red Warning Indicator

A Warning Delivered by a Vote Counter, Not a Moralizer Rahm Emanuel’s forthcoming speech at Tel Aviv University — declaring that the U.S.–Israel...

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The Middle East — The Memory Palace of Civilizations

The Cradle of Civilization Civilization emerged first in Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, and soon afterward along the Nile....

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Haym Salomon: The Indispensable Jewish American Patriot

A Polish-born immigrant twice imprisoned as a spy became the financier the Continental Army could not do without — and paid for it with everything...

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Israel, Palestine, and Canaan: Myth, Archaeology, History, and Geopolitics

Who Belongs to the Levant? Why the Question Resists a Single Answer The competing claims to the Levant are routinely framed as a binary historical...

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Israel’s strategic security hinges on Gaza, not the UAE

For the last six years, a particular narrative has circulated through the pro‑Israel media ecosystem: that the future of Middle Eastern stability...

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Without Israel There Would Be No America?

The Ambassador of Christian Nationalism When U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee declared, “Without Israel, without the Jewish foundation, there...

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Iran Deal: Israel’s Reckoning With The Limits of Influence

The Iran War of 2026 did more than reshape the regional order. It delivered a verdict on a question Israeli policymakers have spent three years...

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Senator Cory Booker’s Iran Deal Dilemma

A Senator Exposes a Democratic Messaging Problem In his June 23rd interview on NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, Senator Cory Booker placed...

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Iran Deal: The Strategic Reality That Trump’s Critics Are Missing

“Israel’s situation is worse than at any point since the state’s establishment… Netanyahu bet everything on Trump, and Israel lost at the...

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Iran Deal: Has the Time Come for a Real Abraham Accords?

The fourteen-point memorandum of understanding signed between Washington and Tehran on June 17 commits the United States and its regional partners to...

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Israel’s Day After – The Limits of Military Dominance

The last three years has made a simple truth unavoidable: military dominance is no longer a reliable path to lasting security in the Middle East....

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Strategic Implications of the Imminent Iran Deal

A Stalemate Wrapped in a Deal The Memorandum of Understanding expected to be agreed upon by Iran and the United States  in the coming days will...

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Israeli Fears Are Legitimate – But That Is True for Iranians and Palestinians

Israelis have perfectly rational reasons to believe they live under existential threat. This is not a matter of exaggeration or political theater; it...

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Why Trump Is Pivoting on Iran

“If we go and bomb — which we can do very easily — and we spend another two or three weeks bombing, they’ll have nothing left whatsoever, but...

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Iran War Day 101: Mother of All Catch 22s

The crisis unfolding between Washington, Jerusalem, and Tehran has entered a phase that feels less like strategy and more like a trap. It is a trap...

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Concerns About the U.S.–Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative

Section 224, included in the House Armed Services Committee’s chairman’s mark of the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act, would establish...

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Iran War: The CIA-ODNI Turf War That Wasn’t

Why Tuslsi Gabbard Had to Go Recent reporting on Tulsi Gabbard’s departure from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has focused on a...

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Out-Hawking the Hawk: Why the Israeli Opposition Has No Iran Strategy

The Familiar Political Temptation Israel’s opposition is pursuing a familiar political strategy. Faced with an electorate shaped by the failures of...

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“Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”

Axios’s account of an expletive-laden phone call between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu has landed at a fraught moment. According to a...

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The Iran War and the Collapse of the Gaza International Stabilization Force

Netanyahu’s Predictable Strategy When UNSC 2803 established the Gaza Board of Peace, I assessed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not...

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U.S.-Israeli Pressure Won’t Force Saudi Normalization

The Trump administration’s decision to explicitly link a future Iran agreement with mandatory participation in the Abraham Accords materially...

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Trump Let Israel Down by Deferring to Netanyahu

Donald Trump’s decision to follow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s maximalist assumptions on Iran, rather than the cautionary advice of key...

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Iran War: The Phone Call That Set Netanyahu’s Hair on Fire

The Iran war had already entered a phase that Robert Kagan — one of the most influential architects of American neoconservative interventionism —...

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Israel-US War to Topple Iranian Regime Was Lost in Gaza

The plan to topple Iran’s regime from the outside was always implausible because it depended on two prerequisites that did not exist: broad,...

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Trump and the Buried Iranian Enriched Uranium

When “Public Relations” Becomes Strategic Policy On May 14, 2026, speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity from Beijing, President Donald Trump made...

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Near the end of his recent 60 Minutes interview, Benjamin Netanyahu picked up a smartphone and held it toward the camera. It was a telling gesture —...

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Iran War: ‘I Don’t Think About American Financial Situation.’ — Trump

“I don’t think about American financial situation — I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear...

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Iran War Day 73: Checkmate at the Chokepoint?

America’s Strategic Failure in the War on Iran In a striking assessment published in The Atlantic on May 10, 2026, Robert Kagan argues that the...

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The Debate Over AI Intelligence Systems Misses the Point

A Technology Problem That Is Not a Technology Problem In boardrooms, legislative chambers, academic journals, and newspaper opinion pages, the debate...

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The Kushner Portfolio: Broker or Architect of the New Middle East

As the Iran War enters its ninth week, diplomatic efforts continue in hope of finding a formula at least marginally acceptable to the U.S., Israel,...

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Trump May Not Care About Hormuz, Oil Prices, or the Midterms

Recent polling confirms what Democratic strategists have been watching for months: the party now holds a lead of between three and ten points on the...

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Iran War: Day 63 — The Economic Battlespace

The confrontation between the United States and Iran has entered a new and potentially more dangerous phase. Although Iran’s nuclear program remains...

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Iran war: The Hormuz choke point exposed the AI choke point

The future of AI will not be decided by who writes the best code, but by who can keep electrons flowing, copper moving, and molecules arriving through...

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Iran War: Wishful Hubris Is Not Strategic Analysis

Regardless of the legitimacy of Israel’s objectives in the Iran War, and regardless of how the conflict ultimately ends, the war has already exposed...

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Hormuz Crisis Day 51: Timeline of Political and Economic Instability

The Strait of Hormuz has now been effectively closed for fifty-one days. What makes this crisis feel simultaneously compressed and unmanageable is not...

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With God on His Side — Trump’s Religious Messaging

The words fill my head, and they fall to the floor That if God’s on our side, he’ll stop the next war  – Bob Dylan The Analyst’s Mandate...

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Christian Nationalism and the Israeli Dilemma

Who Are Christian Nationalists and What Do They Believe Christian Nationalism has become a significant force in American public life, shaping...

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Gaza: The Forgotten Middle East Strategic Center of Gravity

For all the attention now fixed on Iran, Lebanon, and the widening arc of regional instability, the strategic center of gravity in the Middle East...

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Trump’s Theatrics, Threats, and Rhetoric Are Undermining NATO Cohesion

President Trump’s growing frustration with NATO members’ refusal to join U.S. efforts to either unblock or block the Strait of Hormuz has become a...

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The US–Israel Disconnect: Polling, Politics, and the Palestinians

April 2026 Pew Research Center polling documents a marked realignment in American public opinion toward Israel along age, partisan, and religious...

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The Decision to Go to War with Iran: What Was Trump Thinking?

The decision by President Donald Trump to authorize a joint U.S.–Israeli strike on Iran in late February has prompted intense debate about how the...

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