Israel/Palestine

Does John Kerry Matter?

Why Obama's new secretary of state might not have much room to run.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Israel's Script Turns Sour

Hollywood used to portray Israelis as heroic and brave. Today, it's films about the brutality of the occupation that make it to the silver screen.

BY LISA GOLDMAN | FEBRUARY 22, 2013

You Don't Know Chuck

Who said it: Sen. Hagel or the Shin Bet?

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Israelis Love to Argue...

And four other tips for Barack Obama’s first presidential visit to Israel.

BY NATAN SACHS | FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Europe's Hezbollah Problem

In the wake of the Bulgarian bombing investigation, will the European Union finally designate Hezbollah a terrorist group?

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The Peace Processor

An interview with Palestinian negotiator-in-chief Saeb Erekat.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Second Time's the Charm?

Congratulations, John Kerry. You own the peace process now. Here's how not to screw it up.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Israel's New Kingmaker

Yair Lapid's critics have dismissed the former TV personality as vapid and uninformed. They couldn't be more wrong.

BY NERI ZILBER | JANUARY 29, 2013

Think Again: The Muslim Brotherhood

How did so many Western analysts get Egypt's Islamist movement so wrong?

BY ERIC TRAGER | JANUARY 28, 2013

Israel's January Surprise

The pundits were wrong: Israeli voters aren't lurching to the right.

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | JANUARY 23, 2013

Learning to Live with Bibi

Netanyahu's back, and Barack Obama needs to find a way to work with him this time around.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | JANUARY 23, 2013

The Man Who Brought Down Bibi

Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself besieged by a resurgent Israeli left and an old ally-turned-rival on the right.

BY NICOLAS PELHAM | JANUARY 23, 2013

Missing Peace

Israelis aren't rejecting the peace process this election season. They're acknowledging that a solution is impossible without a credible Palestinian partner.

BY DOUGLAS J. FEITH | JANUARY 21, 2013

Shaking Hands, Kissing Tinokot

Israeli pols hit the trail from Haifa to Hebron in search of votes ahead of next Tuesday's election.

JANUARY 18, 2013

Over the Horizon

Five unlikely but extremely destabilizing global crises that Obama must prepare for now.

BY MARTIN INDYK | JANUARY 18, 2013

Rise of the Annexers

In Israel's heated electoral politics, peace is becoming a fringe position.

BY LARRY DERFNER | JANUARY 18, 2013

Lost Tribes

This Israeli election is not about Bibi. It's about nothing.

BY DANIEL LEVY | JANUARY 15, 2013

The Most Hated Woman in Israel

Haneen Zoabi has made her career speaking up for Israel's Arab minority. In Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel, that's becoming harder each day.

BY LARRY DERFNER | JANUARY 11, 2013

Does Obama Have a Middle East Strategy?

If not, what should it be?

BY MARC LYNCH | JANUARY 10, 2013

The Three-State Solution

Are we witnessing a historic shift toward Palestinian unity? Don't bet on it.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | JANUARY 9, 2013

The Palestinian Implosion

Salam Fayyad's bold effort to build Palestinian institutions could soon collapse -- unless Israel and the United States spring to action.

BY ZIAD ASALI, GHAITH AL-OMARI | JANUARY 3, 2013

A Cluster Bomb Killed My Father

It's time to outlaw these dangerous weapons once and for all.

BY NADIM MATTA | JANUARY 3, 2013

Unholy Alliances

Israel's election is bringing together some strange bedfellows.

BY NOAH EFRON | JANUARY 3, 2013

My Enemy, Myself

Who's your enemy? Why fight? Over the course of three years, Belgian-Tunisian photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa has traveled to both sides of the world's longest-simmering conflicts to ask these pointed questions. What he heard from combatants in the Gaza Strip, the disputed Kashmir region along the India-Pakistan border, and tribally divided South Sudan captures the futility of wars that never end -- and can't be won. Tragically, bitter rivals are often fighting for the very same reasons.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARIM BEN KHELIFA | JANUARY 2, 2013

The Settlement That Broke the Two-State Solution

Ma'aleh Adumim symbolizes why Middle East peace may no longer be possible.

BY LARRY DERFNER | DECEMBER 26, 2012

A League of Our Own

The NRA is wrong -- gun culture in Israel and Switzerland isn't anything like it is in the United States.

BY JANET ROSENBAUM | DECEMBER 19, 2012

Keeping the Light On

Celebrating Hannukah with the last Jews in Egypt.

BY BEN GITTLESON | DECEMBER 17, 2012

After Abbas

The Palestinian president will either be toppled from his throne, or die on it. And that may be Hamas's chance to pounce.

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | DECEMBER 13, 2012

The Extricator in Chief

Enough with the fantasies. Barack Obama's not going to reshape the world order in his second term.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | DECEMBER 11, 2012

Keeping the Flame Alive

This Hanukkah, Israel doesn't have to worry about running out of oil.

BY FRANK JACOBS | DECEMBER 10, 2012