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Beyond Containment: The Collapse Of Diplomatic Orthodoxy – OpEd
The article argues that nearly five decades of Western engagement with the Islamic Republic have failed because Tehran is a revolutionary regime that treats negotiations as pauses to rebuild missiles and nuclear capacity rather than as paths to genuine compromise.
No, Israel isn’t ‘stolen land’ — it was purchased at astronomical premiums
Inside libertarian circles, critics attack anyone defending Israel as “collectivists” peddling broken ancestral claims. Their intellectual challenge boils down to one smug question: “Where is the private property? Where is the chain of title?” Fine. Ignore the archaeology, genetics, and linguistics proving indigenous Jewish ties. Let us meet these critics strictly on their own turf: individual property rights, contracts, and Lockean homesteading. Stay informed.Stay ahead.
Netanyahu lets journalists blame him for Oct. 7 — Iran kills citizens for honking horns. Guess who ‘progressives’ back?
A common narrative claims that before 1948, the Middle East was an interfaith paradise where religious minorities enjoyed full equality. This argument exists mainly to frame Israel’s founding as the single cause of sectarian strife across the region. By depicting the pre-modern Middle East as an idyllic garden of mutual respect, critics present Jewish statehood not as an act of historical self-defense, but as an unnatural rupture that destroyed an organic peace.
Israel’s sin was building a shield instead of digging graves
When an air defense system intercepts 9 out of 10 rockets fired into civilian areas, it achieves something remarkable for civil defense. Yet in international opinion, that success frequently works against the state that built it. By denying adversaries the mass casualties they seek to inflict, Israel’s defense creates a strange political inversion. The absence of catastrophic domestic death tolls is rarely treated as a triumph of civilian protection.
The UN, NGOs, and the Business of Perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict International bureaucracies ostensibly devoted to peace have developed powerful financial incentives to keep the conflict alive.
For the global justice system of today, we look at the United Nations and the big NGO industrial complex. What are they doing? They do not make arbitrations of international peace. Instead, they operate as a parasitic cartel. They take warlords and theocratic killers and wash their genocidal ambitions in a linguistic laundry of human rights terminology. Frankly, this is a multi-billion dollar vulture industry.
The UN, NGOs, and the Business of Perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict International bureaucracies ostensibly devoted to peace have developed powerful financial incentives to keep the conflict alive.
For the global justice system of today, we look at the United Nations and the big NGO industrial complex. What are they doing? They do not make arbitrations of international peace. Instead, they operate as a parasitic cartel. They take warlords and theocratic killers and wash their genocidal ambitions in a linguistic laundry of human rights terminology. Frankly, this is a multi-billion dollar vulture industry.
Useful idiots: Why college activists are acting as unpaid interns for a dead Soviet empire
If you walk into the quad of any elite Western university today, you will be deafened by a very specific vocabulary. You will hear endless lectures on “settler colonialism,” “genocide,” “apartheid,” “from the river to the sea,” “imperialist implants,” and “indigenous resistance.” The students and tenured professors chanting these slogans are convinced they have uncovered a profound moral truth, imagining themselves as the vanguard of global justice.
Could a Future Iran Be an Ally of the United States? A History of Strong Relations Says Yes
People walk past an anti-US billboard on a street in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 3, 2026. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS The historic alliance between the US and Iran was built on deep economic, military, and institutional trust. In 1957, the United States chose Iran as one of its primary partners under the “Atoms for Peace” program, which established the Tehran Nuclear Research Center in 1967.
What if Netanyahu surrendered? Israel’s real crime is refusing to die
There is a persistent habit among Western commentators to analyze the Middle East using ideas that sound reasonable in London or Washington, but fall apart the moment they hit the ground elsewhere in the world. Chief among them is the belief that strength is inherently suspicious and material weakness is proof of moral innocence. In a Western university lecture hall, that premise might pass for high-minded ethics. In the Middle East, it is a death sentence.
The West forgot how to fight. Israel hasn’t
Carl Schmitt left modern political theory with an uncomfortable truth: Politics, at bottom, has nothing to do with legal arbitration, procedural rules, or economic trade-offs. It comes down to a single distinction: friend and enemy. Political survival means knowing exactly when a threat stops being manageable and becomes existential — knowing who stands beside you, and who wants you erased. Liberal democracy was never built to accept that crucially important insight.
Tehran wants you to forget: The Israelis and Iranians were once friends
Walk through a diaspora protest in London, Los Angeles, or Toronto, and you will spot something that shatters decades of state propaganda. Right beside the ancient Persian Lion and Sun flag flies the Star of David. This isn’t a cheap political stunt. It’s a raw, spontaneous nod to a shared history stretching back thousands of years. The people holding those flags are entirely ignoring the modern borders and religious ideologies designed to keep them apart. The numbers tell part of the story.
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