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Lebanon’s January Hangover

January 26, 2024

Red-tinted Beirut captured through a car window

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Can Netanyahu Outlast This War?

January 24, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks away with a set of stairs in the background

Some Palestinians Want to Leave Gaza. Let Them.

January 22, 2024

A family around a fire in a refugee camp

Why Israel Is Taking the Genocide Case Seriously

January 19, 2024

Judges led by President Joan Donoghue attend the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, prior to the hearing of the genocide case against Israel, brought by South Africa.

Erasing Jewish History Will Not Help Palestinians

January 19, 2024

A man bows his head at the Western Wall.

Pressuring Israel Works

January 11, 2024

An Israeli protection fence in Al-Ram, near Ramallah

Was Saleh al-Arouri Special, or Is Israel Just Getting Started?

January 9, 2024

A crowd bears up Palestinian-flag-draped coffins at the funeral of Saleh al-Arouri

The Anticlimactic End of Israel’s Democracy Crisis

January 7, 2024

A photo of a man with a bullhorn at a protest of the Israeli government's judicial-overhaul bill

The Curious Rise of Settler Colonialism and Turtle Island

January 5, 2024

A collage of images of Jewish refugees, Palestinian refugees, and ancient artwork

When Leaders Fail

January 4, 2024

A door in Kfar Aza after Hamas militants attacked.

Israel Killed My Family, but Not My Hope

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

January 4, 2024

A photo of birds flying over a city

Hamas Doesn’t Want a Cease-Fire

January 2, 2024

Photo taken from a position along the border in northern Israel on December 27, 2023, shows smoke billowing in the southern Lebanese village of Marwahin following Israeli bombardment amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip

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What Comes Next in Gaza and Israel?

December 27, 2023

A man standing on top of a tank as the sun sets

The Right-Wing Israeli Campaign to Resettle Gaza

December 22, 2023

A person waving a large Israeli flag while standing on a roof with a big sky in the background

What Needs to Happen When the Fighting Stops in Gaza

December 14, 2023

Two soldiers walk on a hazy dusty road

Israel Is Dangerously Dependent on Technology

December 13, 2023

A surveillance camera partially obscured behind some fence-like wiring

Netanyahu Should Quit. The U.S. Can Help With That.

Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon

December 7, 2023

A photo of Benjamin Netanyahu walking away

Israel’s Impossible Dilemma

December 4, 2023

Long exposure picture taken from southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip shows Israeli shells falling on north Gaza on December 1, 2023.

Netanyahu’s Odd Embrace of Elon Musk

November 30, 2023

Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visit the Kfar Aza settlements in southern Israel.

A Moral Case Against the Israeli Hostage Deal

November 22, 2023

Hostage posters on a wall

Readers on the Foreign-Policy Issues That Matter to Them

Conor Friedersdorf

November 22, 2023

A smoke plume erupts from behind hollowed-out buildings on the Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardment

The Debate Over What Happens Next in the Middle East

Conor Friedersdorf

November 17, 2023

A smoke plume erupts above the Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardment

Why Older Socialists Are Quitting the DSA

November 15, 2023

A collage showing Bernie Sanders and Harrington over a map of the Middle East

The One-State Delusion

November 15, 2023

Juxtaposed stamps with the colors of the flags of Israel and Palestine and olive branches

Hamas Must Go

Hillary Rodham Clinton

November 14, 2023

The charred interior of an Israeli home that Hamas attacked on October 7

‘If We Go on Living Like This, Israel Is Not Going to Find Peace’

November 10, 2023

An illustration featuring a photo of Mahmoud Abbas

The Day After Netanyahu

November 10, 2023

Yair Golan speaks at a rally

When Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic

November 8, 2023

A man holding a Palestinian flag runs in front of a blazing fire.

Why a Gaza Cease-Fire Is Unrealistic

November 8, 2023

A girl stands amid rubble outside a bombed-out building in Rafah.

All My Life, I’ve Watched Violence Fail the Palestinian Cause

November 8, 2023

A photo of schoolgirls in the West Bank waving at Israelis who are on the other side of a wall

The Lessons Israel Should Have Learned in Lebanon

November 7, 2023

Israeli soldier breaking into West Beirut in September 1982

How to Talk About the Middle East

Conor Friedersdorf

November 7, 2023

A man speaking into a microphone at a protest in support of Israel

My Message of Peace

November 4, 2023

A women silhouetted against a mural

There’s No Third Rail Like the Middle East

Conor Friedersdorf

November 3, 2023

Two black-and-white images of a protest in support of Israel and a protest in support of Gaza against a light-blue background, with blue and green crayon markings

Don’t Equate Anti-Zionism With Anti-Semitism

November 3, 2023

A woman and child in front of a tank

The Theory of Hamas’s Catastrophic Success

November 3, 2023

A photo of Israeli tanks