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Iran’s worse-case scenario in the foreseeable future is the collapse of the tyrannical regime following possible US attacks that may trigger a brief regional war that would die down after a transitional democratic government takes effect…

“We make war that we may live in peace.”
– Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

The Israel–Palestine conflict has long demonstrated that wars rarely move toward resolution through decisive moments alone. More often, they are shaped by…

The Trump administration must urgently rethink why this standard is not applied to the supporters of Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The upcoming general elections in Pakistan have marked a disturbing turning point in the geopolitics of South Asia,…

“The Jews have celebrated me as a national hero (only because) I have never denied my Judaism.”

– Sigmund Freud, letter to Marie Bonaparte (May 10, 1926)

Freud’s Judaism was undeniable. Shlomo was not only the Hebrew translation of…

Massad Boulos’s shuttle diplomacy between Tripoli and Benghazi, culminating in meetings on January 24–25, 2026, is being framed in Washington as pragmatic realism. In reality, it reflects a troubling acceptance of Libya’s prolonged…

I respectfully urge the Government of Germany to formally recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state within its 1960 borders.

The Republic of Somaliland is in the Horn of Africa, along the southern coast of the…

These essays are neither pure history nor pure fiction. They are narrative meditations on Judah P. Benjamin, the Jewish statesman who became the most capable figure in the Confederate government — a paradox that reveals something unsettling…

Beginning a New Year with Reflection

It’s 2026, and the year has already begun in several wonderful ways for me; I hope the same is true for you. Although I believe writing about sobering topics like the rise of antisemitism is essential,…

In a person’s life, there are moments

that at first seem accidental.

A phrase.

A joke.

A glance.

A small episode.

But with time, you realize:

nothing was…

 

 

 

Image: Headlines of the June 5, 1962 New York Times article about Martin Buber’s objections to the execution of Nazi perpetrator Adolph Eichmann.