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David Patrikarakos

David Patrikarakos

Kurdish Internal Security Forces, known as "Asayish," stand guard as Syrian government internal security personnel enter the northeastern city of Hasakeh, a Kurdish stronghold, on February 2, 2026. The entry follows a January 30 integration deal to gradually merge Kurdish military and civilian institutions into the state, after weeks of territorial ceding to advancing government troops amid months of sporadic conflict between the two sides. (Photo by Amjad Kurdo/Middle East Images/StringersHub/Sipa USA) Credit: Sipa US/Alamy Live News
April 3, 2026, 12:00 pm
Betrayal of the Kurds shows why Jews depend on Israel
When Syria’s Kurds were abandoned yet again, their collapse exposed an unforgiving truth of the region: if you do not have sovereignty, strength and strategic clarity, you do not survive
By David Patrikarakos
Female YPJ fighters (Creative Commons/Kurdishstruggle)
April 2, 2026, 3:45 pm
The fate of Rojava shows exactly why Jews need Israel
When you don’t have a powerful army, an effective intelligence service, nuclear weapons or an independent economy - you can be overrun, while the world does nothing
By David Patrikarakos
Qamishli, Syria, in the 1960s. By the 1980s, a Jewish community of approximately 3,000 had completely gone.
October 22, 2025, 12:20 pm
Dispatches from Syria: echoes of departed Jewish life in Rojava
David Patrikarakos reports from the Kurdish-controlled region on the story of the Jewish community that once was
By David Patrikarakos
June 22, 2025, 10:14 pm
OPINION: Let’s not get carried away. There’s still no sign of the Iranian people rising up
Of course the region would be better off without the Iranian regime but its not within Israel or the West's power to remake Iran, writes David Patrikarakos
By David Patrikarakos
People attend a rally celebrating the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government, in the town of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
December 8, 2024, 3:57 pm
OPINION: Golan Heights back in the crosshairs as Assad finally falls
With Bashar al-Assad's fall, Israel eyes diplomacy and defence to secure its borders and reshape regional dynamics
By David Patrikarakos
October 7, 2024, 12:42 pm
OPINION: How Israel’s deadliest day redefined Middle East politics
What are the objectives of the war in the Middle East one year on from 7 October?
By David Patrikarakos
Hamas. Pic: Harif
October 16, 2023, 10:17 am
ANALYSIS: Hamas cannot defeat Israel. Israel cannot lose to Hamas. So why all the blood?
'This is conflict for our century. – live and in real time,' writes war correspondent David Patrikarakos
By David Patrikarakos
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jeddah, June 7, 2023. Pic: JTA - Amer Hilabi/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
September 28, 2023, 12:43 pm
No roadmap yet but a deal could be in sight
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says that a normalisation pact with Israel would be “the biggest historical deal since the Cold War."
By David Patrikarakos
November 30, 2022, 9:37 am
OPINION: How Ghana became the setting for a seminal Jewish experience
With the help of Chabad in the African state, acclaimed writer David Patrikarakos laid tefillin for the first time and confounded his expectations about a very Jewish encounter
By David Patrikarakos
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations, revealing what he claimed to be a secret nuclear warehouse
February 24, 2022, 4:05 pm
OPINION: Bibi on the bomb was not the tough man he tried to portray
Former prime minister used harsh rhetoric and made lots of threats, but under his tenure, Iran made more progress on its programme than pretty much at any other point in its history, says David Patrikarakos
By David Patrikarakos
Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in 2013. (Photo By Matty Stern/State Department/Sipa USA)
February 10, 2021, 4:06 pm
Amid fears about Biden’s Iran policy, the world is changing in Israel’s favour
Columnist David Patrikarakos reflects on the changing threats in the Middle East, and why the new occupant of the White House won't be a disaster for the Jewish state
By David Patrikarakos
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