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October 25, 2024 | Enia Krivine |

Despite Pressure From Washington, Israel Considers Curtailing UNRWA

Benny Gantz, a leading opposition member of the Israeli Knesset, advocated on October 22 for a vote on two pieces of legislation that would significantly curtail the activities of the United Nations Relief...

October 16, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

One Day in October

A year after Hamas invaded Israel, anti-Zionists bay for more massacres

June 11, 2024 | |

Knesset Advances Contested Conscription Law

Israel’s parliament approved moving ahead on a contested conscription law on June 11. In a vote of 63 lawmakers in favor and 57 opposed, the Knesset plenum approved applying continuity...

November 2, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

The key figures leading Israel’s military campaign to destroy Hamas in Gaza

Here are the masterminds directing each aspect of the IDF operation

October 12, 2023 | |

Secretary of State Blinken Arrives in Israel

Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on October 12, the first leg of a tour of the region in the wake of Hamas’ attack on Israel, which killed 22 Americans. Blinken...

December 5, 2022 | Shany Mor, Einat Wilf

Will Bibi Make the Left’s Nightmares Come True? It’s Never Happened Before

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June 27, 2022 | Shany Mor |

Chaos has consumed Israel

Disaster merchants are holding the country hostage

April 21, 2022 | Shany Mor |

How Israel’s Minority Government Can Stay in Power

The loss of a majority in the parliament is a damaging setback for both Bennett and Lapid. However, it is still too soon to count either of them out.

April 13, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

‘Caught Between a Hammer and an Anvil’

Israel’s in a difficult position when it comes to the war in Ukraine

September 30, 2020 | Varsha Koduvayur, David Daoud

Welcome to a Brand-New Middle East

Israel’s pacts with the UAE and Bahrain go far beyond the tenuous “cold peace” with Egypt and Jordan. They could even help end the conflict with the Palestinians.

July 3, 2017 | Grant Rumley |

The Political Education of Mahmoud Abbas

Co-written by Amir Tibon. When Israeli tanks besieged Yasser Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah in 2002, the Palestinian leader famously declared, “Oh God, grant...

March 8, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Don’t rush the peace process

This palm-fringed oasis in the Jordan Valley has been continuously inhabited for 10,000 years. That justifies it billing itself as the “oldest city in the world.” Officers of...

January 14, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

How to Fight Homophobia in the Middle East

January began with more horrific news for LGBTs in the Middle East. The Islamic State executed a 15-year-old Syrian boy suspected of being gay by tossing him off a rooftop in the eastern Syrian c...

March 18, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Why the Media Always Gets Israeli Elections Wrong

The era of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [is] coming to an end,” read one ...

March 16, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

A House Undivided: Israel’s New Consensus Politics

Israelis go to the polls on March 17, and in a time-honored tradition, international pundits are hopin...

February 16, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

Denmark Terror: Making Sense of the Continuation of European Lethal Anti-Semitism

BERLIN - The specter of lethal anti-Semitism has once again engulfed Europe, with the latest murder of the Danish Jew Dan Uzan who was guarding the Copenhagen synagogue. His death along with anot...

November 10, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Jerusalem, on a Knife’s Edge

Stabbing attacks and random acts of Palestinian terror have brought the violence in Gaza and the West Bank into the heart of Israel. This is not the Third Intifada. At l...

March 7, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

A Baleful Peace Process

To be outrageously iconoclastic among the Washington foreign-policy crowd is easy: Just suggest that the Israeli-Arab peace process is not merely pointless but actually damaging to America’...

July 19, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

Netanyahu, Abbas and the Kerry Initiative

Secretary of State John Kerry announced today that, after six trips to the Middle East, he has successfully convinced the Israelis and the Palestinians to establish "a basis" for resuming diploma...

January 17, 2013 | Lee Smith Tablet |

A Far-Right Israeli Electorate?

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Israelis haven’t become radicals. They’ve just abandoned a delusion.