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When You Try to Kill the Negotiators, Negotiations End

Shane Harris, Nancy A. Youssef, and Isaac Stanley-Becker

September 10, 2025

Photos of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulrahman al-Thani overlaid on top of an aerial surveillance photo of the drone attack site in Doha

The West Bank Is Sliding Toward a Crisis

August 22, 2025

a color photograph of pallbearers carrying the body of Odeh Muhammad al-Hathalin

Western Nations Are Taking a Key Step Toward a Two-State Solution

August 20, 2025

A demonstrator surrounded by smoke holds a Palestinian flag

The Limits of Recognition

August 14, 2025

a large group of protestors are seen in front of a building holding signs that say 'Canada is still arming Israel'

Israel and Gaza, Held Hostage by Fundamentalism

August 11, 2025

A child sits near tents

The Atlantic Daily

What’s Really Driving Netanyahu’s Decisions

August 8, 2025

An Israeli army infantry-fighting vehicle (IFV) leaves a cloud of dust as it moves at a position along Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip on August 5, 2025. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on August 5 prepared to unveil an updated Gaza war plan designed to destroy Hamas and secure the release of dozens of hostages, with Israeli media reporting he would order the total occupation of the Palestinian territory.

Israel’s Settler Right Is Preparing to Annex Gaza

August 7, 2025

Smoke rises from Gaza as Israeli right-wing activists take part in a rally organized by settlers groups to promote Israel's resettling in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border.

Israel’s Last Chance

August 4, 2025

A line for hot meals in Gaza's al-Zeitoun neighborhood

Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

July 31, 2025

Men carry sacks of flour inside Gaza, where there are ruins in the background

Why Trump Broke With Bibi Over the Gaza Famine

Jonathan Lemire and Isaac Stanley-Becker

July 31, 2025

Photo of Trump, Netanyahu, and other officials at a table

The Corrupt Bargain Behind Gaza’s Catastrophe

July 29, 2025

A triptych shows a close up of Benjamin Netanyahu's face flanked by those of Bezalal Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir

The Worst-Kept Secret of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

July 24, 2025

Trump sitting in conference table with Netanyahu and others

The Jubilation in Israel Is Premature

Gershom Gorenberg

July 11, 2025

A photo of the sun setting behind destroyed buildings in Palestinian territory.

Zohran Mamdani’s Lesson for the Left

Alexis Grenell and Arash Azizi

July 8, 2025

Zohran Mamdani campaigning with Brad Lander

Pro-Palestine Activists Fell for Iran’s Propaganda

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

June 26, 2025

A photo of an anti-war protest in Washington, D.C.

Sinwar’s March of Folly

Jeffrey Goldberg

June 23, 2025

An IRGC member holds a poster of Sinwar

The War Israel Was Ready to Fight

June 13, 2025

Soldiers gather around an Israeli flag as they receive a briefing near the border with Gaza.

October 7 Changed Israel’s Calculus

June 13, 2025

A stylized, pixelated image of Netanyahu is shown on a yellow banner, with a piece of an Israeli flag flying in the foreground

No Rational Aid-Distribution System Should Work This Way

Juliette Kayyem

June 6, 2025

Displaced Palestinians including women and children living in tents receive food distributed by aid organizations in al Mawasi district of Khan Yunis, Gaza on May 30, 2025.

The Boulder Attack Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere

June 2, 2025

Photo of crime scene with an Israeli flag taped to a mailbox in Boulder, Colorado

The Deadly Virus of Anti-Semitic Terrorism

Juliette Kayyem

June 2, 2025

A color photograph of police standing in a street, attending the scene of a terror attack in Boulder, Colorado.

The Atlantic Daily

A Dangerous Disguise for Anti-Semitism

May 22, 2025

Flowers at a memorial in front of a police car

Shutting Down Salman Rushdie Is Not Going to Help

May 19, 2025

A silhouette of a graduation speaker on a field of blue, with old script from the U.S. Constitution inside.

Trump Sides With the Israeli People Against Netanyahu

May 12, 2025

Protestors call for a hostage deal during a protest on June 12, 2024 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Israel Plunges Into Darkness

Gershom Gorenberg

May 9, 2025

Photo of people walking past rubble in the Gaza Strip

Erdoğan Sets His Sights on Israel

Reuel Marc Gerecht

April 19, 2025

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

The Double Standard in the Human-Rights World

March 27, 2025

A broken candle with barbed wire wrapped around it

Trump Is Deporting ‘Them’ in Ways That Threaten Us

Conor Friedersdorf

March 27, 2025

Photo of a woman staring out of a window while holding a photo of a man

Netanyahu Takes Desperate Measures

Gershom Gorenberg

March 26, 2025

The Gaza Cease-Fire Was Always Going to End

March 18, 2025

A rubble-filled area of Gaza is seen from inside a bombed building, with people walking around inspecting the rubble.

The Case for Palestinian Pragmatism

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

March 15, 2025

A photo collage stitching together two photos, one of a person waving a Palestinian flag and the other of a person waving an Israeli flag

The Kind of Thing Dictators Do

March 14, 2025

An illustration of Mahmoud Khalil speaking

Netanyahu Doesn’t Want the Truth to Come Out

Gershom Gorenberg

March 14, 2025

Overlapping photos of Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the U.N.

Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run

March 11, 2025

A color photo of Mahmoud Khalil, wearing a pink patterned polo shirt.

The Dangers of Philo-Semitism

February 26, 2025

An illustration showing a distorted Star of David

The Hostage I Knew

Gershom Gorenberg

February 26, 2025

A memorial with photos of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas and Oded Lifshitz in Tel Aviv