Time to Recalibrate False Assumptions and Political Fantasies: The Cases of Iran and Venezuela

In May, The New York Times reported that Iran’s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had allegedly been recruited by the United States and Israel to assume power if the Iranian regime was toppled.
Ahmadinejad has long had a troubled relationship with the Iranian establishment. He publicly accused senior regime figures of corruption, was later barred from running for president, saw several of his aides arrested, and was eventually placed under house arrest.

Iran’s Record Justifies Military Action Against It

It’s remarkable to witness the level of ignorance displayed by certain public officials, segments of the media, and various analysts when evaluating the rationale behind the joint American–Israeli military operation against Iran.

For Sake of Iranian People, Foreign Intervention Justified

As with many contemporary challenges, the case for foreign intervention in Iran has a clear precedent: NATO’s intervention in the former Yugoslavia against the regime of Slobodan Milošević.

Gaza’s Genocide Inversion: Setting the Record Straight

This video refutes the dire and growing accusation circulating globally—one that seeks to delegitimize Zionism, demonize Israel, and implicitly provoke hostility toward Jews both inside and outside the borders of the Jewish state–that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

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Analogies of Death

We often try to make sense of the world, particularly those parts of the world that are unfamiliar, by comparing them to the things more familiar, things we know something about. We say something is like something else, someone reminds us of someone else, that situation is not unlike one we have seen before in certain relevant respects.

Moral Outrage, Sterilization, Natural Law and Supreme Court Justices

Moral Outrage, Sterilization, Natural Law and Supreme Court Justices

The news is horrifying, at once completely unexpected and entirely expected. It is a report of yet another human rights abuse, one of now so many that we are lost in the count of all the tortures, the mass killings, the human degradations, the endless cruelties.

The Fragility of Voting Rights:  The 2020 U.S. Election

The Fragility of Voting Rights: The 2020 U.S. Election

On July 30, 2020, when the iconic civil rights leader Representative John Lewis was laid to rest, his final message to the American people was conveyed in a letter published in the New York Times. It included this advice and caution: “The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it.” Representative Lewis knew all too well of what he spoke.

The Truth Shall Set You Free

A friend of mine, a mathematician, once bet me that, in an upcoming legal argument in a court of appeals, I could not somehow work in the term ‘verisimilitudinous’. As good as he was at math, my friend had a very imperfect understanding of legal argument or that, at appellate arguments

UAE Israel Peace 2020

UAE Israel Peace 2020

Short presentation on the Israel-UAE Agreement. I argue that though the peace agreement is a byproduct of the desire to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict; nevertheless it was mainly driven by realpolitik far from the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and more specifically the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Please forgive couple of editorial and unintended mistakes.

ISRAEL AND THE UAE AND ISRAEL IDEOLOGICAL DEBATES

ISRAEL AND THE UAE AND ISRAEL IDEOLOGICAL DEBATES

The ISRAEL-UA -US dramatic announcement was actually not a well-kept secret, as speculation swirled for a long while, that ”something” was cooking up. Frequent not-so-secret visits of Head of Mossad in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, flights of Emirates Airlines to Tel Aviv, Israeli sportspeople competing in the UAE with Hatikva played there, and the Israeli flag raised.

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Trump enviará 200 soldados a Gaza

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