Ron Agam

By morning, the language was already familiar. Tragic. Shocking. Unthinkable. The words arrive quickly, polished and empty, designed to close the event rather than confront it. 

I met Yoav Gallant in Miami, not in a government corridor in Jerusalem and not in a secure situation room, but in a place where it was possible to talk openly, without protocol and without masks.

Let’s cut through the noise. Jared Kushner’s participation in Paramount’s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery isn’t scandalous , it’s revealing.

Florida’s decision to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations is not “controversial.” It’s overdue.

This war did not fall from the sky. On October 7, Hamas crossed the border into Israel and carried out mass murder. They went house to house, burned families alive, raped, tortured, dragged hostages away. More than one thousand Israelis were killed and hundreds were kidnapped in one day.

Qatar is no mystery anymore. The danger is not that we don’t understand what it is doing. The danger is that we do—and still pretend we don’t.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s old ideology has found a new accelerator. Democracies are still acting like it’s 1938.

In November, the fashion world flew to Doha for a high-gloss charity gala. Under huge chandeliers and endless camera flashes, Vogue’s Anna Wintour posed with Qatar’s family at the inaugural Franca Fund event, presented as a glamorous night for medical research and culture.

When you warn about Islamist organizations in the West, you hear the same sentence again and again. “Come on, this sounds like a conspiracy theory.”

Everyone in this story sees the contradiction. No one in power wants to say it out loud.

In a few days Washington will try to sell the world a neat package. Saudi Arabia gets a historic security pact and astronomical American weapons. 

What we just saw with Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York is not a one-off. It’s a sign of where progressive politics is headed, and what’s coming next could shake the Democratic establishment to its core.