Middle East

The Migrant Money Machine

The developed world could make a big difference to the global economy simply by helping migrants to do what comes naturally: send money home.

BY PETER PASSELL | DECEMBER 4, 2012

The Case Against Benjamin Netanyahu

Ehud Olmert may decide not to run against Benjamin Netanyahu this time around. But either way, he’s betting that crossing an American president will have political consequences in Israel.

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | DECEMBER 3, 2012

The Unfortunate Rise of Retrenchment Chic

Why President Barack Obama's second-term national security team can't shy away from getting involved in the world's difficult conflicts.

BY JAMES JEFFREY | DECEMBER 3, 2012

There's a New Caliph in Town

The Muslim Brotherhood sees a conspiracy to oust it from power around every corner, and it’s prepared to strike preemptively against its enemies -- both real and imagined.

BY EVAN HILL | NOVEMBER 30, 2012

How Israel Lost Europe

How Benjamin Netanyahu lost friends and Mahmoud Abbas influenced people.

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER, BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Bibi Can't Lose

It's Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel. All of his rivals just live in it.

BY NATAN B. SACHS | NOVEMBER 30, 2012

State of Confusion

Why Mahmoud Abbas’s U.N. statehood bid is great for Israel -- and the United States.

BY EPHRAIM SNEH | NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The World in 2013

Ten predictions for a year of brewing conflict.

BY JESSICA T. MATHEWS | NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Launch Your Own Gaza War

Help us field-test 'A Reign of Missiles.'

BY MICHAEL PECK | NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Twice As Rice

Who said it: Condoleezza or Susan?

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The Peace Process Tooth Fairy

How Morsy, Hamas, and Bibi stole the peace process.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The FP Survey: The Wisdom of the Smart Crowd

FP's Global Thinkers weigh in on the year gone by and what's on the horizon for 2013.

DECEMBER 2012

Life Inside the Iron Dome

Why President Obama shouldn't accept Israel's policy of defensiveness and despair.

BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Overdone Turkey

The hype about Ankara as a regional leader is way overblown.

BY STEVEN A. COOK | NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Gunning for Damascus

When no one was watching, the Syrian rebels started winning.

BY MICHAEL WEISS | NOVEMBER 21, 2012

On Pilgrims and Zionists

Why I’m thankful America didn’t turn out like Israel.

BY ROSA BROOKS | NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The Boomerang Effect

Will the civil war in Syria incite a Sunni-Shiite holy war in Lebanon?

BY PATRICK GALEY | NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Decline Is Not a River in Egypt

Why does the Arab world still think America is all-powerful?

BY MICAH ZENKO | NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Bearing Witness

Exclusive photographs from inside besieged Gaza.

BY MOSA'AB ELSHAMY | NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Israel 2012 vs. London 1944

What the buzz bomb can tell us about Iron Dome.

BY MICHAEL PECK | NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The More Things Change

Advances in Israeli weaponry haven't led to advances in Israeli strategy.

BY JEFFREY WHITE | NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Re-Pivot

Forget Asia. It's time for Obama to put his focus back on the Middle East.

BY MARTIN INDYK | NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Strategic Overreach

Emboldened by the Arab Spring's Sunni wave, Hamas has overplayed its hand in Gaza. But can its newly empowered neighbors tamp the fire?

BY JONATHAN SPYER | NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Gaza Burning

Scenes from the latest flare-up in the forever war.

BY SULOME ANDERSON | NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Rockets' Red Glare

No, Iron Dome does not prove that "Star Wars" was right.

BY YOUSAF BUTT | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Still Think Middle East Peace Doesn't Matter?

Gaza's radiating instability proves once again that Palestine is at the center of the region's problems.

BY STEVEN A. COOK | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Winning the Stalemate

In Gaza, both sides are benefitting from the violence.

BY DANIEL BYMAN | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

How Hamas Won the War

It doesn’t really matter if Israel wins the battle.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Small Arms, Big Problems

Western assault rifles are showing up in the hands of Islamist fighters in Gaza. It's a cautionary tale for arms-exporting countries across the globe.

BY DAMIEN SPLEETERS | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

A Pillar of Problems

Eight questions about the Israel-Gaza conflict we still don't have a good handle on.

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | NOVEMBER 16, 2012