Category Archives: Okategoriserade

The Iranian threat to Israel increases by the year. Hezbollah is converting its 150 000 stock of missiles into precision weapons. The cost of war with Hezbollah increases as Hezbollah’s inventory grows and becomes increasingly advanced. Israel therefore needs to plan for conquering the entire Lebanon. Eliminating Hezbollah’s missiles cannot happen through air strikes aloneContinue reading “Hezbollah must be Destroyed”

The two major non-Zionist segments of the Israeli population, Israeli Haredim (strictly Orthodox Jews) and Palestinian Israelis have for long largely remained outside of the country’s economic mainstream. Poverty is endemic in both sectors as Haredi and Palestinian households typically have only one breadwinner with Palestinian women in Israel typically being homemakers and Haredi menContinue reading “Israel’s Challenge of Integration”

Democracy was tried in Egypt after the downfall of former president Hosni Mubarak and over 60% of Egyptian voters cast their lot with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists. The choice was clear. The Egyptian people voted against liberal democracy in favor of theocracy. So the experiment failed and a year later was the EgyptianContinue reading “Reassessing Democratization and Liberalization in Islamdom”

The US was certainly not wrong in liberating Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003). The mistake the US made was in staying there on the ground for years on. It is notable that public advocates of allied liberation of Iraq (whether neoconservatives or others) never supported a prolonged US troop presence on the ground in IraqContinue reading “Learning the Lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan”

Israel currently has 9 million citizens of whom 7 million are Jews. Israel’s Haredi population is expected to reach the 40 million mark at the end of the 21st century and 16 years later double to 80 million and then 160 million. Israel’s non-Haredi Jewish population has a relatively high growth rate for a developedContinue reading “Skyscraper Nation”

There is a certain logocentrism at work in how pre-Israel European Anti-Semitism and post-Holocaust Anti-Zionism racialize and stigmatize Jews with particularly intense interest in specifically Ashkenazi Jews. Pre-Israel European Anti-Semitism claimed that Ashkenazi Jews were racial “Orientals” who were “genetically alien” to Europe. Post-Holocaust Anti-Zionists in contrast claim that Ashkenazi Jews are racial “Europeans” whoContinue reading “Racializing the Jews”

The United States should consider establishing a no-fly zone over Iran subsequent to a US military strategic degradation of the Iranian nuclear weapons program. A no-fly zone over the entire Iran will signal to the peoples of Iran, including in the periphery that regional rebellions against the regime will have the support of the UnitedContinue reading “The Case for a US No-Fly Zone over Iran”

Many nations have betted on the perceived “inevitability” of Palestinian statehood since 1988 by “recognizing” the non-existent ostensible Palestinian “state”. One persistent argument was “the Palestinian womb” when in fact nowadays the Palestinian fertility rate is falling and the Israeli Jewish fertility rate is rising with both demographic groups now having 3 children per womanContinue reading “The Losing Proposition of Palestinian Statehood”

The Muslim Brotherhood is the world’s largest Islamist movement, yet it is often poorly understood due to its secrecy and dissimulation. All branches and front organizations worldwide of the Muslim Brotherhood support the restoration of a sharia-based Caliphate that would span the entire Islamdom and eventually the entire world. Yet the Muslim Brotherhood recognizes that theContinue reading “Politics of the Muslim Brotherhood”

Until a few decades ago was there no question as to the Orthodox definition of who is a Jew. A Jew was someone born from a Jewish mother or converted by an Orthodox rabbi. This is in itself problematic since Halakha nowhere requires the involvement of a rabbi for a Jewish religious court, a beitContinue reading “The Conversion Controversy”

Iran’s regional policy can be summarized as taking over the countries of the region by exploiting pre-existing ethnic discord and establishing regional armed formations. The US and the Israeli-Muslim alliance of majority-Muslim nations of the Arab world and the former Soviet Union need to turn the tables on Iran and apply Iran’s own strategy insideContinue reading “Turning the Tables on Iran’s Regional Strategy”

The Kurds are faithful and staunchly pro-American allies of the United States despite the Trump administration’s shameful abandonment of the KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) in Iraq and the AANEA (Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria). It is crucially in the interest of the US to strengthen the Kurds as a strategic lever against Anti-AmericanContinue reading “A Neo-Wilsonian US Policy for the Near East”

The Khomeinist regime in Tehran has concluded that restoring the JCPOA is not an Iranian national interest and has therefore opted for accelerating its nuclear weapons program. How does the regime reason? Tehran reasons that an agreement on resumption of the JCPOA would in any case be abrogated in 4 or 8 years time byContinue reading “Iran’s Strategic Calculus”

While generally the solution for Median Jewry is Aliyah to Israel, the situation in Syria and Lebanon is different due to geographic proximity to Israel and the Mediterranean Sea. Israel needs to make every effort to engage leading Alawites in the Syrian government to persuade them of the benefits for the Alawite people (economic, political,Continue reading “Partitioning Syria and Lebanon”

Median Judaism in the Middle East has undergone a number of major transformations throughout the ages since the exile of the Israelites from the northern kingdom of Israel 27 centuries ago. 1) The first phase was the Assyrian phase when the deported Israelites for the first time went off the radar of documented history intoContinue reading “The Seventh Transformation”

The conclusion of the recent meeting between President Biden and Prime Minister Bennett did according to Prime Minister Bennett surpass Israel’s expectations. The essential conclusion that it is an American responsibility to strategically degrade the Iranian nuclear weapons program is an important message to Iran that the US and Israel will not let Iran invadeContinue reading “Genocide is not “a Jewish Problem””

Iran does not permit its rabbinically Jewish minority to emigrate to Israel and would not permit its millions of Yarsanis and other Median Jews (Alevis, Yezidis and Zoroastrians in addition to the Mandaeans who are pre-Israelite Jews) to do so either. It is unclear how Muslim and ex-Muslim Kurdish nationalists (including the the Kurdistan RegionContinue reading “Let My People Go”

Israeli liberal democracy has lived under external threat since Israel’s founding in 1948. There is however also a threat from within. 25% of the Knesset is occupied by explicitly anti-democratic political parties. 30 mandates out of a total 120 seats in the Knesset. 3 Marxist-Leninists, 4 Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood and 23 advocates ofContinue reading “Israel’s Threatened Democracy”

Judea and Samaria have long remained terra nullius due to the demographic size of the Palestinian population there still being proportionally too large for full incorporation into the Jewish state. The Jewish fertility rate in Israel is rising while the Palestinian fertility rate is falling with the exception of the Negev Bedouins. Currently both JewishContinue reading “Redeeming Judea and Samaria”

The jurisdiction of Israelite religion was split in two with the partition of the Israelite united monarchy into the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah in separate independent states in the year 930 BCE. In the Middle East, the religious jurisdiction of the northern kingdom has long since been split intoContinue reading “The Northern Jurisdiction of Israel”