Anthropic’s IPO filing on Monday set the stage for the Claude creator to pursue possibly largest initial stock offering in history. According to CNBC, investors are measuring the 5-year-old company’s potential market cap in the trillions, putting it in a category with...
Israel’s Ugly Election Aftermath: Netanyahu’s War Against Israeli Palestinians
Netanyahu's response to the October 27 election has been extraordinary, even by his increasingly incendiary standards. Having failed to secure a governing majority, he and Likud have moved from contesting political opponents to questioning the legitimacy of the...
The Two Faces of Gadi Eisenkot, Who Could Be Israel’s PM
As expected, the early Israeli exit polls indicate that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his prime adversary former chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot face deadlock. In the past 10-15 years, the country’s political center of gravity has shifted sharply toward security and...
Post-Genocide Israel 2026: Fragmented, Divided, Segregated Election With Few Alternatives
Israel's 2026 election is occurring in a highly polarized and incendiary political atmosphere that recalls 1995. Then, the Oslo process had split Israeli society between an increasingly radicalized right and a peace-oriented government. As the incendiary political...
Why Didn’t Netanyahu’s Cabinet Preempt October 7 (if it Knew About it in Advance)?
In his fiery speech to the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against accusations of genocide levelled against Israel, as many delegates walked out and hundreds of protesters rallied against him across Manhattan. After Netanyahu...
The West Bank’s Ultra-Apartheid (and the Collusive International Silence)
Today, the West Bank is a nightmare of vicious settlement expansion, land seizure, economic strangulation, settler violence and forced displacement. With the collusion of the Israeli military and police, the Israeli-occupied territories are effectively ruled by the...
How the US-EU Partnership Is Fracturing
The US increasingly prioritizes technological dominance, supply-chain security, industrial protection and strategic competition with China. Under Trump, this approach has become openly transactional and unilateral: tariffs, market access and security instruments are...
The Collapse of the Bipartisan Consensus Over US-Israel Ties
For decades, U.S. support for Israel rested on one of Washington’s strongest bipartisan assumptions: that military assistance was strategically necessary and politically untouchable. But Gaza has weakened that consensus. Critics now see Israeli military aid as a...
Renewed Gulf Hostilities, Elevated Regional and Global Uncertainty
The United States and Iran traded new attacks overnight into Thursday, intensifying an exchange that has threatened the collapse of their agreement to end the war. According to President Trump, the ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran was “over.” The...
Obliterating Gaza’s Children: The Damning UN Report
When I was working on The Fall of Israel (2024) and particularly The Obliteration Doctrine (2025), what I found most repulsive was the targeting of children in the Gaza Strip. By late 2024, the testimonies of health professionals on location indicated that the deaths...


