Essential Philosophy

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that Hamas will be given a deadline to disarm, and if the group refuses to give up its weapons.  “We estimate that in the coming days, Hamas will be given an ultimatum to disarm and completely demilitarise Gaza,” Smotrich said on Monday. If Hamas does not comply, the army […]

The reaction to Joe Kent’s principled, patriotic resignation from the Office of National Intelligence—and the numerous MAGA obituaries that appeared shortly thereafter—seem to share in common the idea that Donald Trump’s decision to go to war on behalf of Israel is both (a) surprising and (b) will cause a fissure within the Republican Party from […]

One War & Five Scenarios To End It Authored by Amir Taheri, With the war between the Israel-US duo and the Islamic Republic in Iran entering its fourth week, two questions are asked in policy circles across the world. The first is: how long will it last? The answer is: how long is a piece of string? Which means: because no one knows, no speculation is warranted. The second question may be beyond a journalist's bailiwick: how does it end? As one of my mentors in journalism taught so many decades ago, we had better leave...