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How Bibi Buggered On to Victory

Through sheer tenacity, the Israeli prime minister fended off unremitting pressure from Washington and reshaped the regional map. But his most critical test still lies ahead.

byEdward N. Luttwak
The King’s Foils

Distrustful of a Republican foreign policy establishment that undermined him in his first term, Trump sourced a cohort of second-term staff from previously marginalized Libertarians and anti-interventionists. The problem? They don’t agree with him on policy.

byMichael Doran
Netanyahu Takes On Israel’s Deep State
byGadi Taub
The King’s Foils

Distrustful of a Republican foreign policy establishment that undermined him in his first term, Trump sourced a cohort of second-term staff from previously marginalized Libertarians and anti-interventionists. The problem? They don’t agree with him on policy.

byMichael Doran
Netanyahu Takes On Israel’s Deep State
byGadi Taub

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Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a meeting in the Oval Office on Feb. 4, 2025
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a meeting in the Oval Office on Feb. 4, 2025
The End of ‘Palestine’

Donald Trump reminds the world that ideas have sell-by dates

byLee Smith
Palestinians cheer at the site where Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis, on Feb. 20, 2025. The transfer, which purportedly included the remains of members of the Bibas family, took place as part of a cease-fire agreement between the two sides.
Palestinians cheer at the site where Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis, on Feb. 20, 2025. The transfer, which purportedly included the remains of members of the Bibas family, took place as part of a cease-fire agreement between the two sides.
Their Time Is Up

The murder of the Bibas children caps off an 18-month catalog of horrors that has told us exactly who our Palestinian neighbors are. Backed by a friend in the White House, Israel must secure its future through strong unilateral action.

byLiel Leibovitz
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, hugs Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Jan. 15, 2018
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, hugs Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Jan. 15, 2018
Israel’s Love Affair With India

From drones to missiles to small weapons, Israel’s military-industrial complex has found a desirable partner in the subcontinent

bySameer Patil
A rescuer fights the blaze amid the smoldering rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli air strike that killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs on Sept. 27, 2024
A rescuer fights the blaze amid the smoldering rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli air strike that killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs on Sept. 27, 2024
Killing Nasrallah

Israel shows America how to win wars

byLee Smith
Palestinians cheer at the site where Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis, on Feb. 20, 2025. The transfer, which purportedly included the remains of members of the Bibas family, took place as part of a cease-fire agreement between the two sides.
Palestinians cheer at the site where Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis, on Feb. 20, 2025. The transfer, which purportedly included the remains of members of the Bibas family, took place as part of a cease-fire agreement between the two sides.
Their Time Is Up

The murder of the Bibas children caps off an 18-month catalog of horrors that has told us exactly who our Palestinian neighbors are. Backed by a friend in the White House, Israel must secure its future through strong unilateral action.

byLiel Leibovitz
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, hugs Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Jan. 15, 2018
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, hugs Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Jan. 15, 2018
Israel’s Love Affair With India

From drones to missiles to small weapons, Israel’s military-industrial complex has found a desirable partner in the subcontinent

bySameer Patil

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Who Is Committing Genocide?

China, Russia, and Iran

byCarl Gershman
Israel Defense Forces soldiers patrol an undisclosed area on Oct. 15, 2023
Israel Defense Forces soldiers patrol an undisclosed area on Oct. 15, 2023
The Dogs of War

Traveling Route 232 in the days after the Hamas attacks

byAntonio García Martínez

Antisemitism, it was once said, is the socialism of fools. Today it is Hamasism that reproduces that same criminal imbecility.

—Bernard-Henri Lévy

Israel Defense Forces soldiers patrol an undisclosed area on Oct. 15, 2023
Israel Defense Forces soldiers patrol an undisclosed area on Oct. 15, 2023
The Dogs of War

Traveling Route 232 in the days after the Hamas attacks

byAntonio García Martínez

Antisemitism, it was once said, is the socialism of fools. Today it is Hamasism that reproduces that same criminal imbecility.

—Bernard-Henri Lévy

Masked Hamas militants dressed as suicide bombers march in a rally in Khan Younis on Dec. 13, 2002. More than 30,000 people gathered at the camp to mark the 15th anniversary of the founding of Hamas.
Masked Hamas militants dressed as suicide bombers march in a rally in Khan Younis on Dec. 13, 2002. More than 30,000 people gathered at the camp to mark the 15th anniversary of the founding of Hamas.
How Israel Missed Its Chance to Eliminate the Leadership of Hamas

The widely misunderstood doctrine of proportionality can have wildly disproportionate consequences

byShlomo M. Brody

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