Israel/Palestine
The End of Tunnelnomics
Is Hamas’s lucrative underground trade about to come to a screeching halt?
BY ADEL ABDEL GHAFAR | MAY 4, 2011
Think Again: Al Qaeda
The world's most notorious terrorist organization was never quite what Americans thought it was -- and Osama bin Laden's death doesn't mean that it's down for the count.
BY DANIEL BYMAN | MAY 3, 2011
Whiff of Desperation
Michael Oren's unconvincing argument for the U.S.-Israel special relationship.
BY STEPHEN M. WALT | APRIL 25, 2011
Friends Forever?
Israeli leaders need to confront their waning credibility in the United States.
BY JEFFREY GOLDBERG | APRIL 25, 2011
The Ultimate Ally
The "realists" are wrong: America needs Israel now more than ever.
BY MICHAEL OREN | MAY/JUNE 2011
Second Thoughts
How much does Richard Goldstone's Gaza retraction matter?
BY JAMES TRAUB | APRIL 22, 2011
When in Doubt, Give a Middle East Speech
In the cruel world of Israeli, Palestinian, and U.S. politics, talk is cheap.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | APRIL 21, 2011
Twisting Assad's Arm
U.S. diplomats are always complaining they have no leverage over Syria. They're wrong.
BY ANDREW J. TABLER | APRIL 14, 2011
Partial Acquittal
After Richard Goldstone's mea culpa, it's up to human rights organizations to remind Israel that it's not off the hook.
BY URI ZAKI | APRIL 6, 2011
The Debate that Changed Goldstone's Mind?
Four days before Justice Richard Goldstone's shocking retraction on Israeli war crimes, I heard him waver.
BY ABRAHAM BELL | APRIL 6, 2011
Is America Addicted to War?
The top 5 reasons why we keep getting into foolish fights.
BY STEPHEN M. WALT | APRIL 4, 2011
A Decade of Wishful Thinking
Western policymakers and pundits tried for years to convince themselves that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was a reformer. He's not.
APRIL 4, 2011
No Spring in Palestine
Despite the uptick in violence, it's going to require something truly nasty or spectacular to put the Israeli-Palestinian issue on the front burner again.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MARCH 24, 2011
We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Conflict
A brewing crisis between Israel and Hamas threatens to derail the Middle East's promising reform movement.
BY HUSSEIN IBISH | MARCH 23, 2011
Cairo 1.5
The Arab world that Barack Obama addressed in his famous speech two years ago is history. It's time for him to speak to the new one.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 4, 2011
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Libya's tenure on the U.N. Human Rights Council is just the latest example of how the international system has been hijacked by the world's most repressive regimes.
BY DANIEL AYALON | MARCH 2, 2011
History Matters
Is the peace process doomed until Mahmoud Abbas hangs a portrait of Theodor Herzl in his office?
MARCH/APRIL 2011
Slash and Burn
Congressional Republicans are bent on all but eliminating the U.S. government's foreign aid budget. And Defense Secretary Robert Gates may be the only one who can stop them.
BY JAMES TRAUB | FEBRUARY 18, 2011
The Ripple Effect
From Algeria to Iran and the countries in between, a look at how revolution fever is spreading across the Middle East.
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Don't Fear the Brotherhood
Running away from the Islamic party is exactly what the entrenched Egyptian ruling class wants America to do.
BY JAMES TRAUB | FEBRUARY 10, 2011
Why the Egypt Revolution Is Good for Israel
It's not pretty, and there certainly are risks, but the fall of Mubarak could mean a better, lasting peace in the Middle East.
BY KAI BIRD | FEBRUARY 10, 2011
What Do Israel and Iran Have in Common?
Their hard-liners want Mubarak out.
BY MEIR JAVEDANFAR | JANUARY 31, 2011
The Rest of the Story
Al Jazeera's Palestine Papers have been a PR disaster for the Palestinian Authority. But it's Israel's American supporters who really need to read them.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JANUARY 28, 2011
NastyLeaks
Far from a triumph for transparency, the Palestine Papers are a victory for the enemies of peace in the Middle East -- but only if Palestinian leaders embrace Al Jazeera's narrative.
BY ROBERT M. DANIN | JANUARY 24, 2011
Don't Forget Gaza
Amid the political turmoil engulfing the Arab world, there's one overlooked problem spot that could easily explode again.
BY SALMAN SHAIKH | JANUARY 24, 2011
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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