Between Cyrus and Khomeini: Iran, the Jews, and Israel
Sometimes, the most dangerous thing in the Middle East is not a missile but a miss.
Sometimes, the most dangerous thing in the Middle East is not a missile but a miss.
Those who cannot stand against regimes of oppression
should not lead the human rights discourse.
Withdrawal from American aid is not a matter of “independence or death.”
It is a matter of risk management in a world where dependence is weakness.
Israel is not intentionally harming the American arms industries.
It simply stops playing by rules that were written when it had no choice.
Those who rush to present the move as a demonstration of national independence, or alternatively as a dangerous and unnecessary step, miss the point:
This is a move that seeks to change the rules of the game, not withdraw from it.
Academia doesn’t have to be right-wing, it doesn’t have to be Zionist either.. but it does have to be brave.
Because the moment it stops asking questions, it stops being relevant.
In a world where every truth is considered offensive, every border is considered racism, and every self-defense is considered a crime, one man appeared, not gentle, not polite, not elegant
and said: … Enough
There are moments in history when you feel the ground move. Not an earthquake – more like an old wooden table that an empire was built on, and suddenly someone discovers that one of the legs has been eaten by termites.
This is what Iran looks like in 2026.
Khamenei may be weaker than before, but he still sits on a mechanism that knows how to suppress, wait, and survive.
And anyone who thinks a mouse can’t bite doesn’t understand the Middle East.