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William KeenanThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Nearly a year after the Gaza ceasefire took hold, the fight over what Israel actually agreed to has resurfaced — and this time the argument is...
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...
Boundary Testing, Not Rebellion The debate over who bears responsibility for the failed strategic objectives in the Iran episode has become a contest...
On July 23, 2026, the United States announced a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. The Department of Energy’s own release did...
Part III — When Allegations Become Public Narratives When the FBI’s Confidential Human Source (CHS) memo alleging ties between Jeffrey Epstein...
Architecture, Objectives, and Failure In the summer of 2026, a detailed picture emerged of a coordinated effort by the Israeli government to reshape...
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...
Part Two: Beyond the Epstein-Barak Connection The first part of this analysis examined what the documented relationship between Ehud Barak and Jeffrey...
Intelligence Adjacency versus Espionage During his recent interview with Joe Rogan, Vice President JD Vance made a striking claim. Jeffrey Epstein, he...
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...
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...
The Cradle of Civilization Civilization emerged first in Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, and soon afterward along the Nile....
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...
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...
For the last six years, a particular narrative has circulated through the pro‑Israel media ecosystem: that the future of Middle Eastern stability...
The Ambassador of Christian Nationalism When U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee declared, “Without Israel, without the Jewish foundation, there...
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...
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...
“Israel’s situation is worse than at any point since the state’s establishment… Netanyahu bet everything on Trump, and Israel lost at the...
The fourteen-point memorandum of understanding signed between Washington and Tehran on June 17 commits the United States and its regional partners to...
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....
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...
Israelis have perfectly rational reasons to believe they live under existential threat. This is not a matter of exaggeration or political theater; it...
“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...
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...
Section 224, included in the House Armed Services Committee’s chairman’s mark of the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act, would establish...
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...
The Familiar Political Temptation Israel’s opposition is pursuing a familiar political strategy. Faced with an electorate shaped by the failures of...
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...
Netanyahu’s Predictable Strategy When UNSC 2803 established the Gaza Board of Peace, I assessed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not...
The Trump administration’s decision to explicitly link a future Iran agreement with mandatory participation in the Abraham Accords materially...
Donald Trump’s decision to follow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s maximalist assumptions on Iran, rather than the cautionary advice of key...
The Iran war had already entered a phase that Robert Kagan — one of the most influential architects of American neoconservative interventionism —...
The plan to topple Iran’s regime from the outside was always implausible because it depended on two prerequisites that did not exist: broad,...
When “Public Relations” Becomes Strategic Policy On May 14, 2026, speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity from Beijing, President Donald Trump made...
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 —...
“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...
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...
A Technology Problem That Is Not a Technology Problem In boardrooms, legislative chambers, academic journals, and newspaper opinion pages, the debate...
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,...
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...
The confrontation between the United States and Iran has entered a new and potentially more dangerous phase. Although Iran’s nuclear program remains...
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...
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...
The Strait of Hormuz has now been effectively closed for fifty-one days. What makes this crisis feel simultaneously compressed and unmanageable is not...
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...
Who Are Christian Nationalists and What Do They Believe Christian Nationalism has become a significant force in American public life, shaping...
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...
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...
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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