“KNOW THE ENEMY”
DEATH, TIME AND WAR IN THE JIHADI WORLD
DEATH, TIME AND WAR IN THE JIHADI WORLD
From the start, Donald Trump’s plan for peace in the Middle East was headed for trouble. Among other things, the US president’s proposals failed to understand jihadi notions of death and time. Fortunately, Trump’s plan for Gaza, first announced in September 2025, was rejected by Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on August 9, 2026. Though […]
Why Israel’s Government Voted to Recognize the Armenian Genocide
How the geopolitical tide can turn in thirty years! If 1996 was the high-water mark of Turkish-Israeli relations, 2026 is their lowest ebb: from a free-trade agreement to a trade embargo; from an Israeli tourism boom to virtually none; from close military cooperation under their landmark MOU to Erdogan’s threats of military confrontation; and from […]
From El-Sissi’s Egypt to the End of Political Islam
Why Top-Down Decrees Can’t Cure the Region’s Crisis? El-Sissi diagnosed the symptom. He did not know how to cure the disease. On January 1, 2015, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi stood before the scholars of Al-Azhar University and issued an ambitious call for a “religious revolution.” He warned that it was both mathematically and morally […]
How Hitler Created A Dictatorship in 53 Days
In 1949, Theodor Heuss, the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany, warned his countrymen that “we should not make it so easy for ourselves to forget what the Hitler era brought us.” Heuss, who had been a member of the pro-democracy German State Party during the Weimar Republic, was a keen student of […]
An Open Letter to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “Do Nothing Until You Hear from Me”
Editor’s Introduction The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune is pleased to publish this Open Letter by Melinda Haring, a respected member of the Editorial Board of the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, CEO of Kensington Global LLC, and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. For more than a decade, Melinda Haring has been one of Washington’s most […]
Why Jerusalem Has No Appetite for Wars of Attrition Against Tehran
On August 2, 2026, President Donald Trump announced he was calling off a planned large-scale American strike on Iran, claiming the outlines of a framework deal had been reached with Tehran covering “the Immediate, Complete, and Total Opening” of the Strait of Hormuz and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat. A senior Israeli official told […]
Can AI actually go rogue
An OpenAI model hacked its way into another company to cheat on a test. The question is whether it counts. A while ago, a group of friends and I were finishing dinner at a diner when we noticed the jukebox in the corner frozen on a computer exception screen. My friends are geeks, in the […]
The Energy Transition’s Inconvenient Paradox
Climate finance is growing — but it won’t solve energy poverty unless we finance the diverse energy portfolios that developing economies actually need. When nearly 200 countries adopted the Belém Political Package at COP 30 last November, they pledged $1.3 trillion per year in climate finance and tripled the adaptation target—then failed to agree on any roadmap […]
How America Should Wage War Against Iran
America’s current war against Iran is not simply or merely a military contest.The outcome will reflect more than comparative military forces and strategies. No matter how often Donald Trump may warn that “an entire civilization could die tonight,” Tehran will remain focused on its long-term goals. In the words of chief Iranian negotiator Mohammad Baqer […]
The Geopolitical Opportunity of the Century for the U.S. and European Union
Today, for the first time in a century, the Donald Trump administration possesses a tangible opportunity not merely to minimize the Russian threat, influence, or competition, but to oversee a completely managed disintegration of Russia. This would strip Moscow of its aggressive agency and global prospects, if not permanently, then for a very long time […]
Milei, the Tech Bros and AI Dreams
In April, Argentines were surprised to learn that Peter Thiel, co-founder of data analytics giant Palantir and a fierce opponent of the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), was visiting Buenos Aires, and had met with President Javier Milei. Another surprise came when, following Thiel’s visit, Milei published an article in the Financial Times stating that […]
The Architecture of Power
Israel, Iran, and the Future of Regional Order: As power shifts from territorial advantage to the control of interconnected technological systems, the Middle East is emerging as a critical laboratory where energy, compute, and strategic alignment may shape the architecture of the twenty-first century. Ecosystem of Power: Israel, Iran, and the Evolution of Regional Order Israel’s […]
