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Think Strategy, Not Tactics

November 1, 2023

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A War to End All Wars Between Israel and Palestine

November 1, 2023

A Palestinian youth smokes, leaning against the wall of a ruined house amid rubble in Khan Younis, Gaza, October 2003.

Israel’s Dangerous Delusion

November 1, 2023

In the desert near the Israel-Gaza border, a tank with soldiers atop and alongside flies the Israeli flag.

The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False

Simon Sebag Montefiore

October 27, 2023

People march in support of Palestine

The Israel-War Email That College Presidents Should’ve Sent

Conor Friedersdorf

October 27, 2023

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Stop Doomscrolling About Israel and Palestine—Read These Books Instead

October 27, 2023

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Why Israel Should Obey Geneva Even When Its Enemies Do Not

Michael Ignatieff

October 27, 2023

A traffic cone in the blue and white colors of Israel.

Tell Me How This Ends

October 27, 2023

A man standing on top of a tank

The Cost of War Will Be Counted in Children’s Lives

Catherine Russell

October 26, 2023

Palestinian children look at the building of the Zanon family, destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023.

India’s Hindu Extremists Are Trolling the Israel Conflict

October 26, 2023

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The Atlantic Daily

The Murky Logic of Companies’ Israel-Hamas Statements

October 25, 2023

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What Israel Can Learn From America’s 9/11 Response

Conor Friedersdorf

October 25, 2023

A black-and-white image of the back of two people's heads as they watch smoke coming out of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers during 9/11

I Don’t See a Better Way Out

October 24, 2023

Rockets fired from the Gaza Strip over buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes

A Record of Pure, Predatory Sadism

October 23, 2023

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The End of Netanyahu

October 22, 2023

A ripped poster of Benjamin Netanyahu's face lies discarded on blue-painted concrete ground in Tel Aviv.

Netanyahu’s Attack on Democracy Left Israel Unprepared

October 21, 2023

Soldiers looking solemnly at graves covered in Israeli flags

Washington Week With The Atlantic

A Paralyzed House Complicates Biden’s Plans for Israel

October 21, 2023

Guests talk around a table on Washington Week With the Atlantic

Calls for a Cease-Fire—But Then What?

October 21, 2023

A pro-Palestinian protest in Washington, D.C.

Yes, the U.S. Can Afford to Help Its Allies

October 20, 2023

A composite image of two photos, one featuring Volodymyr Zelensky and Joe Biden, the other featuring Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu

A Collection of Narratives on the Israel-Hamas War

Conor Friedersdorf

October 19, 2023

Soldiers take cover as they launch mortar rounds towards Gaza in southern part of Israel, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023.

Hamas’s Hostage-Taking Handbook Says to ‘Kill the Difficult Ones’ and Use Hostages as ‘Human Shields’

October 19, 2023

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Egypt’s Gaza Problem

October 19, 2023

People gathered at the Rafah border crossing

What’s Next in Gaza

October 18, 2023

Photo of Israeli soldiers around a mortar launcher firing toward Gaza from Be'eri, Israel, on Tuesday, October 17, 2023.

Beware the Language That Erases Reality

October 18, 2023

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Four Misconceptions About the War in Gaza

October 18, 2023

In a stretch of desert with smoke rising in the distance, a Hamas fighter on the back of a motorcycle raises his weapon and points to the sky.

The Best of Bad Options for Recovering the Hostages

October 17, 2023

A photo of a pinboard where people have posted details of relatives taken hostage by Hamas.

What Is Israel Trying to Accomplish?

October 17, 2023

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Students for Pogroms in Israel

Conor Friedersdorf

October 14, 2023

Pro-Palestinian students take part in a protest in support of the Palestinians amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, at Columbia University in New York City, U.S., October 12, 2023.

Israel Is Walking Into a Trap

October 13, 2023

Israeli soldiers on a tank near the Israel-Gaza border

The Lessons Israel Failed to Learn From the Yom Kippur War

Keren Yarhi-Milo and Tim Naftali

October 13, 2023

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan in Tel Aviv, August 1, 1973

Photos: Dire Conditions in Gaza

October 12, 2023

Picture of Palestinians carrying a casualty from the rubble in the aftermath of Israeli strikes in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 11, 2023.

Israel Must Not React Stupidly

October 12, 2023

American and Israeli flags

The Left Abandoned Me

October 12, 2023

Cars destroyed after the Hamas attack in Israel

Hamas May Not Have a Step Two

October 11, 2023

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‘Be Absolutely Quiet. Not a Word.’

October 10, 2023

People run away from the camera across a dirt field as a man wearing a black balaclava stands in the foreground holding a gun

Biden Will Be Guided by His Zionism

October 10, 2023

A photo-illustration featuring Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, and a rocket