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Credibility: A Nation’s Most Critical Strategic Asset

Vietnam is the cautionary tale that every strategist and political leader should carry in their pocket. In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States possessed unmatched military power, a…

For years, critics treated Israel’s missile defenses as an expensive umbrella: useful, defensive, and strategically limited. However, that judgment has collapsed.

Today, Israel’s multi-layered shield ranks among the most consequential…

I came across earlier this week the headline “Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Used White Phosphorus in Lebanon” published by Human Rights Watch and cited by Al Jazeera, The New Arab, Middle East Eye, Al-Monitor, Anadolu Agency, and you can, of…

A Call to Inner Renewal as Israel and Iran Clash and Jews Everywhere Feel the Shockwaves

“HaChodesh hazeh lachem rosh chadashim…”
“This month shall be for you the beginning of months.” (Exodus 12:2)

This Shabbat we read the special…

The dust refuses to settle across Israel. The north fluctuates between calm and chaos as fighting comes and goes with Hezbollah. For the first time in decades, there are no living hostages held in the hellish dungeons under Gaza. As we awake…

Healing Is Necessary but Not Enough: Why Trauma-Informed Reconstruction Matters for Gaza and the West Bank

This essay is part of the series “Before Reconstruction: The Moral Architecture of Peace,” which examines the psychological,…

When the Sirens Haven’t Stopped: Understanding Trauma While Danger Is Still Real

By Dr. Ivan Gulas, Board-Certified Clinical Psychologist and Author of ‘Changing the Odds: A New Understanding of PTSD and the Path to Recovery’

When the…

Binyamin Netanyahu – Bibi – has been Israel’s prime minister, intermittently, for almost 20 years. One would think that he is loved, liked, respected.

 Well, not so much. 

 There are, of course, those who do. Like and respect him. …

After finishing our morning doppio (double espresso) in the hotel lobby, Marco, our concierge, rushes over and hands me a list of local sites to visit near our hotel situated in Puglia, a region of Southern Italy. At the top of the list noted…

In my previous column, I examined how a commercial dispute involving a global titanium producer raised broader questions about strategic supply chains relevant to Israel and its Gulf partners. That issue has now taken on renewed significance…