There is a ritual quality to the reassurances that flow from Washington to Jerusalem after every crisis, every ceasefire, every awkward telephone call between an […]
Author: Leon Hadar
How America’s war crowned Iran as the Gulf’s new hegemon
There is a particular irony — the kind that history savors — in the fact that the United States set out in February 2026 to […]
Farmers struggle to source popular cattle feed as dry conditions bite
A by-product of the cotton harvest, cottonseed boosts protein and fibre in animal diets. But as graziers ramp up their drought preparations, dry conditions are […]
Law allowing flooding on private land ‘critical’ for environment, expert says
Controversial new legislation could secure critical water supplies for delicate ecosystems while delivering benefits to the Murray-Darling Basin’s agricultural sector, a leading river ecologist says…See […]
Trump’s Iran deal: Realpolitik triumphs — for now
Washington has a habit of dressing up its foreign policy in the language of moral purpose. Presidents invoke democracy, human rights, and the rules-based international […]
The $20,000 question: Can a lawnmower engine defeat a superpower?
An Aegis destroyer, the crown jewel of late 20th-century naval engineering, crewed by hundreds of highly trained sailors, detects an incoming threat over the Red […]
Netanyahu’s axis-vs-axis bet risks deeper, deadlier rifts
In February 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled what may be his most ambitious foreign policy doctrine yet. Standing before his cabinet ahead of […]
The mirage of Israel-Lebanon rapprochement
Those of us who have spent years chronicling the long, tragicomic history of American diplomacy in the Middle East could be forgiven a certain weary […]