Amine Ayoub

Amine Ayoub is a policy analyst and writer based in Morocco. His media contributions appeared in The Jerusalem Post, Yedioth Ahronoth , Arutz Sheva ,The Times of Israel and many others. His writings focus on Islamism, jihad, Israel and MENA politics. He tweets at @amineayoubx.

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Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September 2025.
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The Justice Charade: Why Syria’s Islamist Regime Is Whitewashing Sectarian Murder
The Syrian Transitional Government’s Refusal to Acknowledge Sectarian Massacres Exposes Its Justice Reforms as a Façade
November 21, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
The F35 is not a sensor or a radar; it is a platform whose stealth, sensor fusion, and netted lethality erase the old calculus. The question is no longer “if” another Arab power will own advanced U.S. kit; it is “on what political and technological leash.”
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The $100 Billion Gambit: How the Saudi F-35 Deal Rewrites Global Security Rules
The American Saudi Flirtation over up to 48 F-35s Is a Rewriting of the Rules That Have Long Undergirded Middle East Stability
November 20, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
The culpability extends just as deeply into northwestern Libya, where armed groups linked to Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba play a central role.
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The $20 Billion Betrayal: Libya’s Elite Are Funding Global War with Stolen Gas
The Sum Is Enough National Wealth to More than Triple Libya’s Combined Spending on Both Healthcare and Education
November 20, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
There is nothing theoretical about the crisis now choking Bamako, above. What began as guerrilla hits on supply convoys has become a strategic blockade: fuel convoys burned on the roadside, schoolyards emptied, hospitals running on dwindling generators, and a capital living on borrowed oxygen.
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Mali’s Fuel Blockade Is a Regional Time Bomb and a Threat to American Interests
Mali’s Collapse Would Export Instability Into the Sahel and Maghreb Corridors Linking Libya, Algeria, and Tunisia
November 16, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
The core danger is simple and terrifying: high-capacity smuggling routes running through the Sudan-Libya-Egypt tri-border area now offer hostile actors a reliable alternative to maritime and subterranean smuggling. Those land routes bypass traditional interdiction efforts and make possible the transfer of sophisticated weaponry into the Gaza Strip and Sinai.
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The Sudan-Libya-Egypt Triangle: An Immediate Israeli Security Crisis
Across Israel’s Southern and Western Peripheries, a Slow-Motion Catastrophe Is Taking Shape
November 13, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
Turkey’s Libya gambit is doing more to fracture the Eastern Mediterranean than to secure Western energy. The so-called pivot is false, and the hazard is real.
Middle East Forum Online
Turkey’s ‘Pro American’ Energy Gambit Is a Geopolitical Hazard
Ankara Is Using Energy Deals to Expand Its Influence in Contested Waters and to Entrench Patronage Inside a Fragile, Divided Libya
November 12, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
If the U.N. or any external actor seeks to help Gaza recover, they must do so on terms that respect Israel’s fundamental right to defend itself.
Middle East Forum Online
Why Israel Must Have Veto Power Over Foreign Forces in Gaza
It Is the Only Rational Posture for a Country That Has Been Fighting an Existential Ideological War with Hamas for Decades
November 12, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
Libya is not merely a failed state; it is the engine room of a new global criminal order, and the consequences are already radiating far beyond its borders.
Middle East Forum Online
Libya Is Becoming the World’s Crime Capital — America Can’t Afford to Look Away
The Implications for American Interests Are Concrete, Even If the Language of Policy Prefers Discretion
November 11, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
The stability of the Middle East’s longest peace now depends on the rapidly deteriorating economic and social health of the Egyptian state.
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The Cornerstone Is Cracking: Why Egypt’s Internal Decay Threatens the Middle East’s Longest Peace
The Danger Comes Not Primarily from a Hostile External Power, but from Within the Egyptian State Itself
November 11, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
When Spain rushed Royal Decree 10/2025 into law on September 23, 2025, it reshaped practical lines of commerce, finance, and defense in ways that weaken, not strengthen, regional security. The Palace of Deputies in Madrid.
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Spain’s Gaza Decree Is a Strategic Mistake
It Is Exactly the Opposite of What Europe and the West Should Be Doing at a Time of Heightened Danger
November 6, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
On March 27, 2025, an Algerian court sentenced 75-year-old French-Algerian author Boualem Sansal to five-years in prison, ostensibly for stating in October 2024 that western Algeria was part of Morocco when France colonized both countries. Sansal’s real crime appears to be his ties to France at a time Algeria’s leadership grows increasingly frustrated with France’s turn toward Morocco.
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The Maghreb’s Time Bomb: Why Peace with Morocco Can Trigger an Algeria Implosion
Peace with Morocco Would Not Stabilize Algeria; It Would Expose It
October 30, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has dismissed the terrorist label for Hamas and labeled it a “resistance movement.” Above, he flashes the pro-Islamist “Rabia sign,” used originally to show solidarity with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, later associated in Turkey with Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party, but now seldom used by party members. He’s shown here speaking at a “pro-Palestinian” rally in Istanbul, May 18, 2018.
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Why Turkey’s ‘Peace’ Guarantee in Gaza Is a Hostage to Islamism
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Presence at the Sharm El-Sheikh Summit Is a Clear Geopolitical Mistake
October 20, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
For 17 years, Hamas promised to liberate “Palestine.” Instead, it has enslaved Gaza. Elements of the Al-Qassam Brigades during the funeral of terrorists killed during the war. Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, February 13, 2025.
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Gaza’s Implosion: Israel Was Right All Along
Gaza Is Collapsing Under the Weight of Its Own Contradictions
October 15, 2025
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Generation Z protests in front of the parliament‎ buildings in Rabat, Morocco; Oct. 4, 2025.
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Morocco’s Gen Z: Rejecting Democracy, Trusting the Throne
The New Wave of Youth-Led Mobilization in Morocco Is Not Another Act in the Familiar Drama of Anti-Regime Unrest
October 9, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
Morning newspapers in the U.K. on September 22, 2025, report on the decision by the Labour government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer to grant diplomatic recognition to a “State of Palestine” on September 21, 2025. Nottinghamshire, U.K.
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A Dangerous Mistake: Recognizing ‘Palestine’ Now Is a Gift to Hamas
It Grants a Diplomatic Prize to the Architects of October 7 and Entrenches a Political Order That Rewards Coercion, Not Compromise
October 2, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
Phone calls between Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, urgent Kremlin messaging, and sharp statements from senior diplomats show a country aware that Israel’s new posture makes Moscow’s influence more brittle and more expensive to defend. In short, what used to be low-cost influence is becoming high-maintenance.
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Did Israel Just Stop Russian Influence in the Middle East?
If Israel’s Unilateral Actions Have Even Temporarily Blunted Moscow’s Designs, the West Must Capitalize, Not Congratulate and Withdraw
September 30, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
Since assuming emergency powers in July 2021, Tunisian President Kais Saied has methodically dismantled democratic institutions, sidelined elected bodies, muzzled independent media, and violated human rights under the pretext of combating corruption and terrorism.
Middle East Forum Online
Tunis Is Turning to Tehran—This Is What Washington Should Do
The Economic Pressures Behind This Diplomatic Pivot Are Urgent and Measurable
September 29, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
Syrian Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends the United Nations General Assembly in New York City; September 22, 2025.
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From Ally to Archterrorist? Is Ahmed Al-Sharaa the Next Bin Laden-in-the-Making?
The 1980s Taught Washington a Brutal Lesson: Short-Term Partnerships with Men of Violent Conviction Can Metastasize Into Long-Term Threats
September 25, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
Malta’s recent public rebuke of Tripoli’s unilateral maritime moves is an inflection point that exposes fault lines in eastern Mediterranean geopolitics, energy markets, and international law. Aerial landscape of Malta’s capital city Valletta, Mediterranean sea; Jan. 21, 2024.
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Is Turkey Pulling a Seabed Heist with Libya? Malta Sounds the Alarm
September 25, 2025
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Amine Ayoub
The Arab League has talked about military coordination for decades. From the failed United Arab Command of the 1960s to more recent proposals for joint rapid-response forces, the pattern is consistent: declarations are made, communiqués are issued, and little to nothing materializes.
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The Myth of a Joint Arab Army: Dictators Focus on Survival, Not Defense
A NATO-Style Force Makes for Good Headlines, but Its Purpose Is Not to Fight Israel, but to Buy Time for Rulers Worried About Unrest at Home
September 18, 2025
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