Tony Blair

December 11, 2025 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Israel awaits return of last hostage, next phase of Gaza ceasefire under discussion

Israel is awaiting the return of the remains of the last hostage still held in Gaza as officials in the Middle East and the US continue to negotiate how the ceasefire in the territory will progress to...

October 22, 2025 | Aaron Goren, Ahmad Sharawi, Samuel Ben-Ur

FAQ: The Challenge of Disarming Hamas

Three days after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire went into effect on October 10, Hamas released all 20 living hostages still in captivity. The group seized most of the hostages on October 7, 2023, when thousands...

October 3, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

Is the Trump plan an outcome or a solution?

It unfolds over time—from the conditions necessary to halt the war to the reconstruction of what the text calls “New Gaza,” along with the deradicalization of its population.

October 1, 2025 | Seth J. Frantzman |

US, Israel await Hamas answer after peace deal push

US President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on September 29 and unveiled a 20-point plan to end the Gaza war during a joint press conference....

August 28, 2025 | |

Trump Meets With Top Advisers to Discuss Future of Gaza

Meeting to Discuss ‘Day After’ in Gaza: President Donald Trump convened a meeting with top national security advisers to discuss a possible joint U.S.-Israeli “day after”...

October 23, 2022 | John Austin, Elaine K. Dezenski

Democracy Needs a New Sales Pitch

Here’s how to get the world excited about it again.

June 13, 2022 | Eric S. Edelman |

What Erdoğan Has Wrought?

Seeking concessions to support Finland and Sweden joining NATO has done damage to Turkey’s standing in Europe and its long-term security interests.

July 15, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

The Chilcot Report

The Chilcot report on the Iraq war ought to elicit two emotions: sympathy and pity for former British prime minister Tony Blair. As was evident by late 2002, when Europeans saw the fri...

February 9, 2015 | Michael Ledeen

Obama’s in Bed With the Pope, Tony Blair, Ruth Benedict, the UN and Most Universities

There was nothing particularly new about President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast the other day, and most of the opinion makers and shapers who feigned outrage are late to...

September 5, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

A Muslim Identity Crisis

The massive sexual abuse case in Rotherham, England, has revealed again how awkward and self-defeating the Western response often is to matters that touch on religious identity. Although the inde...

December 19, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

Frenemies

Less than a generation after World War II, in the midst of a cold war whose outcome was far from certain, John F. Kennedy famously proclaimed that Americans would “support any friend, oppos...

July 11, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Murder on the Democracy Express

Who killed Egyptian democracy? Elite foreign-policy analysts have been providing strikingly divergent answers. Egypt’s military is, of course, the prime s...

May 9, 2013 | |

Stephen Hawking Should Go to Israel — and Gaza

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel has done nothing to cripple the Jewish state’s economy. But it has scored a few big symbolic victories. This week, it...

March 18, 2013 | Robert Barnidge The Hindu |

Not So Strictly Legal

International lawyers must introspect about how their partisan allegiance clouded their determination of the lawfulness of the 2003 Iraq war. As some celebrate and others decry...

May 3, 2012 | James Kirchick Tablet

London Jews’ Labour Problem

London mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone—whose political future will be determined in today’s election against Conservative incumbent Boris Johnson—has a Jewish problem. He&rsqu...

July 11, 2011 |

Still Clueless About Al Qaeda in Iraq

Speaking in Iraq, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reportedly told U.S. troops: “The reason you guys are here is because on 9/11 the United States got attacked. And 3,000 Americans — 3,...

July 1, 2011 | Faster, Please!

Obama’s Joke of a Counterterrorism Strategery

Mount Obama belched forth a mousy counterterrorism strategy, which you can read here in its inglorious en...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

Would a President McCain Have Invaded Iraq?

A doubter's analysis.

June 14, 2011 | Washington Times

Osama Targets Europe

The latest message of Osama bin Laden is strangely trying to convince the Europeans — six years later — that they were wrong to follow the United States into Afghanistan. As al Qaeda&...

June 13, 2011 | The Spectator |

Nice Work: The Taxpayer is Being Stung So This Lord Can Live in Admiralty House

Co-Authored by James Forsyth Mark Malloch-Brown, the minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, was the most prestigious recruit to Gordon Brown’s ministry of all the talents....