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Category Archives: Israel
The Mossad Blame Game and the Hope of Regime Change in Iran
Recent anonymous attacks on Mossad Director David Barnea reveal less about intelligence failures than about the political need to assign blame for an outcome that was always unlikely. As expectations of rapid regime change in Iran fade, unnamed sources have … Continue reading
Every country lies during war. What are the painful truths the major countries in this Iran war are hiding now?
Grok says: The “2026 Iran War” (also called the US-Israel war on Iran or Operation Epic Fury) began February 28, 2026, when the US and Israel launched surprise airstrikes across Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, top officials (e.g., Ali … Continue reading
Who Owns the State? Alliance Theory and Israel’s War Over Security, Law, and Sovereignty
Israel’s high-status actors do not compete for power by admitting they want it. They compete by deploying moral languages that frame their authority as necessary, legitimate, or indispensable. This is the core insight of David Pinsof‘s Alliance Theory. Moral vocabularies … Continue reading
Decoding Israel’s New Historians
The emergence of Israel’s New Historians in the late 1980s looks, on the surface, like a straightforward case of archival discovery. Newly declassified Israeli state documents became available, a generation of younger scholars examined them, and the founding narrative of … Continue reading
Decoding Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Coalition Logic, Niche Construction, and the Career of a Strategic Dissident
Ilan Pappé is not simply a controversial historian. He is a high-status insider who converted system knowledge into a legitimacy challenge, relocated to a more favorable environment, and built an intellectual ecosystem that now sustains itself largely without him. His … Continue reading
The Idea of Israel and the Coalitions That Protect It
Andrew Gelman’s post uses Ilan Pappe‘s The Idea of Israel as a lens to ask a broader question: why do national narratives contract and expand? Why do societies permit critical dissent in some decades and suppress it in others? His … Continue reading
Decoding The Institute for National Security Studies
The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv sits at a particular point in Israel’s alliance ecosystem. If you look at it through David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory, the key question is not “what is the think tank’s ideology?” … Continue reading
Is Iran Comfortable Now?
I see Iran experts such as Alex Vatanka (Middle East Institute) claim that Iran is comfortable where they are right now in this war. A Foreign Affairs podcast (March 2026) quotes analyst Nate Swanson: “Iran is very comfortable engaging in … Continue reading
Decoding The Crown Center for Middle East Studies
The Crown Center for Middle East Studies sits inside a specific American academic alliance structure. If you decode it through David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory, the key question is not “what do they believe?” but “which coalitions reward them for saying … Continue reading
How have Zionist think tanks and lobbying groups changed their arguments to fit in with MAGA and Trump?
The shift in how pro-Israel think tanks and lobbying groups argue their case represents something more than a messaging adjustment. The core mission has not changed. What has changed is the operating logic that sustains the argument. Groups that once … Continue reading