Alex Stein

Dallas

Host at The Conspiracy Castle with #99 Alex Stein

Cat Maximalist 🐈 & Host of Prime Time with Alex Stein @BlazeTV ➡️https://t.co/X7Cpu4fWJN Try Some Prime Time Grind Coffee https://t.co/RMTx5jYhXV

Articles

Looking for a Smoking Gun When the Fuse is Already Lit

1 week ago | loveoftheland.substack.com | Alex Stein

Critics of Israel’s attack on Iran (on both the left and right) think they have their smoking gun. According to a report in CNN, contrary to Israeli warnings that Iran was reaching the point of no return in its attempt to obtain nuclear weapons, US intelligence assessments suggested that Iran was up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one to a target of its choosing.
Bibi's Gambit

1 week ago | loveoftheland.substack.com | Alex Stein

In an article published today by Unherd, ‘The West has forgotten the art of strategy,’ Eurointelligence director Wolfgang Munchau argues that:Israel’s strike against Iran is a classic case of a trade-off where a short-term tactical manoeuvre is bought at the expense of a weaker strategic position in the long run.
The Road to Rising Lion

1 week ago | loveoftheland.substack.com | Alex Stein

The road to Operation Rising Lion began with the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the rise to power of the Ayatollah Khomeini, who laid out Iran’s opposition to the existence of the State of Israel. Combining Islamic theology, anti-imperialism, and revolutionary ideology, he identified Zionism as a threat to Islamic civilization.
The Beginnings of Martyrdom

2 weeks ago | loveoftheland.substack.com | Alex Stein

During the Nabi Musa festival in April 1919, the Palestinian scholar Khalil Sakakini reflected on the difference between Jewish and Muslim holy days. The former, he said, were “created as memorial days for tragedies” and resulted in “pain and sadness,” but Muslim holy days were exciting and left participants “full of enthusiasm and energy.” “A nation whose holidays include only crying has no future,” he concluded. Just over two years later, this picture would begin to change.
LOTL Remastered: From Bar Kochba to the 'Gaza Metro'

2 weeks ago | loveoftheland.substack.com | Alex Stein

In an occasional series, I’m going to be revisiting old and previously paywalled pieces, sprucing them up and updating them a little and sharing them with readers. Today, I offer you a remastered version of the first piece I ever wrote for this Substack, back in January 2024.
Guest Post: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

3 weeks ago | loveoftheland.substack.com | Alex Stein

This is a guest post (translated from the Hebrew by me) from Merav Horovitz, Head of Community Planning at the Urban Clinic (full disclosure: she is also my wife). For those who missed it, here’s her previous piece from March about the mysterious happenings in Jerusalem’s parking lots. You can’t understand Gilo without standing in the inner courtyards of its buildings, constructed more than 40 or 50 years ago.
The Flag March and the Abraham Accords

3 weeks ago | loveoftheland.substack.com | Alex Stein

I haven’t written anything about the Jerusalem Flag March before because I try to avoid topics about which there’s nothing new to say. In this case, the scenes of teenagers and young men marching through the Muslim Quarter chanting ‘Death to Arabs’ and other similar songs are appalling and obvious indefensible. Nor does the “few bad apples” claim hold up to scrutiny.
From Foe to Friend

1 month ago | loveoftheland.substack.com | Alex Stein

The story of Bedouin-Israeli relations in the south during the War of Independence defies the simple narratives of Arab-Jewish conflict. Rather than forming a monolithic front against the emerging Jewish state, the Negev Bedouin tribes made independent decisions based on tribal interests, local conditions, and assessments of the war’s likely outcome. Several major Bedouin tribes ultimately aligned themselves with Israel, becoming valuable allies in securing the Negev for the Jewish forces.
May Recommendations

1 month ago | loveoftheland.substack.com | Alex Stein

Welcome dear premium subscribers, especially those who have joined this past month. Plenty to go through this month. As ever, if you’re interested in a particular article, let me know, and I’ll gift/copy and paste it for you.
How Will the War End?

1 month ago | loveoftheland.substack.com | Alex Stein

It’s been said that “it’s easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism” and we’ve now reached the stage where it’s easier to imagine an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than an end to the war in Gaza, which has continued to defy predictions about its duration and resolution.