While Europe has convinced itself it always was and always would be the “pet child” of its American caretaker, because: Let me expand on European values. In Germany and the Netherlands, th...
Beyond the Nation-State: Toward a New Global Order Based on Value and Practicality The nation-state, that sacred pillar of modern political organization, increasingly feels outdated — and at times, ...
Once, the Arab world stood tall. In the 1950s and 60s, Gamal Abdel Nasser’s voice thundered across the region, igniting the flames of Pan-Arabism. The 1970s shimmered with cultural brilliance –...
“What’s going on?” We crave a simple narrative, a clear trajectory that allows us to grasp the present and confidently predict tomorrow’s headlines. Wouldn’t that be comf...
Power is the possibility to inflict pain. Power is the possibility to inflict pain. This is the fundamental truth of relations—personal or international. Yet Europe, especially Western Europe, has w...
The Haavara Agreement (1933-1939) Up until 1941, the Nazi regime sought to make Germany’s Jewish population emigrate rather than kill them – the systematic extermination would come later. ...
The Forgotten Refuge: Jewish Life in the Middle East vs. Europe’s Legacy of Persecution A Stark Historical Contrast For over a thousand years, Jewish communities in the Middle East lived under I...
The conflation of antizionism with antisemitism is a contentious and often misleading political tactic used to silence criticism of Israel’s policies and actions. While antisemitism is a form of...
When Germany’s early federal election was announced on November 7, 2024, for February 23, 2025, authorities anticipated Russian interference. German intelligence promptly established a special t...
In a move that underscores the dramatic realignment of Middle Eastern alliances, Israel has quietly urged the U.S. to allow Russian military bases to remain in Syria. Behind this unorthodox request li...
Remember when the so-called Iranian “moral” Police killed a girl for not wearing her headscarf properly? (If you don’t, read it here). Let’s imagine for a second she would have...
Europe and the West often look down on the Middle East, viewing it through a lens of stereotypes and misconceptions. To many in the West, the region is seen as backward, plagued by violence, and domin...
Lebanon’s president on Monday ordered troops to retaliate against the source of gunfire from the Syrian side of the border after a night of deadly clashes erupted along the frontier. The Lebanese He...
Modern liberalism often claims to champion feminism, but a closer look reveals a glaring contradiction: it only supports women’s rights when those rights align with its own narrow vision of what wom...
Recently, I ‘came across a video of Geert Wilders, the Dutch far-right politician, bashing Al-Andalus—the period of Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula. (https://youtu.be/b3cmclVKANk?si=OsL-b...
