Essays August 2026

 Spain’s Left and Right Fight over Franco’s Monument

Ahead of his June visit to Spain Pope Leo XIV was pressed by conservative Catholic groups to visit the Valley of the...
Essays August 2026

Iran and the Future of America First

How the Iranian Question Could Define Republican Strategy After Trump As the United States approaches the 2028...
Essays August 2026

“KNOW THE ENEMY”
DEATH, TIME AND WAR IN THE JIHADI WORLD

From the start, Donald Trump’s plan for peace in the Middle East was headed for trouble. Among other things, the US...
Essays August 2026

Why Israel’s Government Voted to Recognize the Armenian Genocide

How the geopolitical tide can turn in thirty years! If 1996 was the high-water mark of Turkish-Israeli relations, 2026 is...
THE JST INTERVIEW August 2026

A. Borshchevskaya on the New Global Fault Lines

https://youtu.be/ToWGOni9R-8 From Ukraine to Iran, and amid tensions between Washington and Jerusalem, Anna...
Essays August 2026

From El-Sissi’s Egypt to the End of Political Islam

Why Top-Down Decrees Can’t Cure the Region’s Crisis? El-Sissi diagnosed the symptom. He did not know how to cure the...
Essays August 2026

How Hitler Created A Dictatorship in 53 Days

In 1949, Theodor Heuss, the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany, warned his countrymen that “we should not...
Essays August 2026

An Open Letter to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

“Do Nothing Until You Hear from Me”

Editor’s Introduction The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune is pleased to publish this Open Letter by Melinda Haring, a...
THE JST INTERVIEW August 2026

M. Mandelbaum on American Power, Public Opinion and the Future of US Alliances

https://youtu.be/v-RLEJrh0TY In this conversation with Jacob Heilbrunn, Michael Mandelbaum explores American...
Essays August 2026

Why Jerusalem Has No Appetite for Wars of Attrition Against Tehran

On August 2, 2026, President Donald Trump announced he was calling off a planned large-scale American strike on Iran,...

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