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Dmitri Shufutinsky

Jun 6, 2018, 8:20 PM

Game of Thrones: An Allegory for the Middle East?

Much has been made of the hit HBO television show, “Game of Thrones,” being based off of medieval European history. Indeed, some suggest that the Lannisters and Starks are based off of the Lancaster and York Houses from the...

Dmitri Shufutinsky

May 5, 2018, 10:15 AM

Is a Pan-Semitic Nationalism Emerging in the Middle East?

This year so far has been unprecedented in terms of Arab-Israeli cooperation and--dare I say--coexistence. The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, has both accepted Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state (the first Arab leader to do...

Dmitri Shufutinsky

Apr 2, 2018, 9:44 AM

What Modern Kurdistan Can Learn from Pre-State Israel

Kurdistan has faced a very tough past few months. In northern Iraq, the tide turned from jubilation over the successful independence referendum to dismay, as Iranian-backed Shiite militias helped the Iraqi military seize a number of Kurdish towns and...

Irina Tsukerman

Mar 13, 2018, 11:59 PM

Must the Bad Guys Always Win?

"Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows..." - Leonard...

Irina Tsukerman

Mar 7, 2018, 5:03 AM

How Iran, Qatar, and Turkey Create and Exploit Weaknesses in International Organizations to Divide and Conquer

The Tehran-Doha-Ankara alliance is pursuing the same divide-and-conquer strategy that has already proven to be successful against Iranian opposition to weaken international alliances and organizations. They then successfully exploit the ensuing disorder. Each country has cleverly used instigation and...

Irina Tsukerman

Feb 27, 2018, 1:52 PM

Operation Save Our Allies

The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations (COP) annual mission to Israel was exciting, thought-provoking, and a little overwhelming as usual. While many of the discussions were off the record, there were general impressions and themes that...

Fiamma Nirenstein

Feb 7, 2018, 11:20 PM

But the sultan has gone too far. A visit to Rome

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is used to getting off scot-free. For quite some time he has been saying and doing anything without shame, he violates the human rights of his citizens, jails more journalists than any other nation, represses...

Mohammad Zolfaghari

Jan 30, 2018, 11:22 PM

Ramin Hossein Panahi in danger of imminent execution in Iran

The Iranian intelligence agency informed the Hossein Panahi family on Thursday that their missing son was sentenced to death, and their imprisoned son was sentenced to eight-and-a-half-years, the family reported. On June 23, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of...

Jan 25, 2018, 2:05 PM

In the early hours of this morning, I was rudely awakened by thunder and lightning. Since I live on the top floor of my apartment house we get the brunt of extreme climatic conditions. For me though, my panic attack during such storms is...

Akiva ben Avraham

Jan 24, 2018, 4:49 PM

The Curly Shuffle in Syria

The more I see this present administration, the more I think it resembles a three Stooges episode. Before Israel puts all of its eggs in the US basket, let's observe what happens to a US “ally” that bleeds and...

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