List of Israel articles
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Iranian President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian smiles as he visit the Khomeini shrine in Tehran. The U.S. Should Negotiate With Iran on One Issue Right Now
Revisiting the nuclear deal is unlikely before November, but Washington and Iran’s new president must seek to defuse Israel-Hezbollah tensions.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a press conference in Tel Aviv on July 13. Netanyahu’s Address to Congress Is a Campaign Rally
Republicans want to help him out—but Democratic lawmakers don’t need to provide the crowd.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak gesture and smile in Tel Aviv on Nov. 26, 2012. Israel Is Stuck in the Year 2000
The country’s relationship with Lebanon hasn’t moved beyond decades-old dilemmas.
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Demonstrators call for FIFA to expel Israel on May 28, 2015 in Zurich, Switzerland. It’s Time to Sideline Israel from International Sports
A boycott of Israeli soccer could accomplish what other BDS efforts have failed to do: dent the country’s own sense of legitimacy.
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U.S. Marine Corps recruits from Lima Company complete a 10-mile hike at Camp Pendleton, near San Diego, California, on April 22, 2021. The Return of the Military Draft
The wars in Ukraine and Gaza show that technology cannot replace soldiers—on the contrary.
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Israeli army soldiers patrol around a position along Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip on June 13. Who’s in Charge of the IDF?
Evidence is growing of a command and control problem.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks in New York. Ehud Olmert on Israel’s Two-Front War and the Fall of Netanyahu
The former Israeli prime minister calls for a cease-fire in Gaza and the creation of a Palestinian state.
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U.S. President Joe Biden (right) and former U.S. President Donald Trump participate in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia. Key Foreign-Policy Moments From the Trump-Biden Debate
The two candidates clashed over Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, immigration, and America’s global image.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. The Man Leading Israel’s Not-So-Quiet Annexation of the West Bank
Bezalel Smotrich aims to bankrupt the Palestinian Authority and cement Israeli rule.
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An Israeli soldier wearing a green combat uniform uses a flashlight to examine a framed photograph of three women as he checks personal belongings in a house that was hit by a Hezbollah rocket. Behind him, a presumably broken window is boarded up with a slab of plywood. What a War Between Israel and Hezbollah Might Look Like
The Lebanese armed group is trained and equipped much better than Hamas.
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U.S. President Joe Biden reaches his arm out a table to shake hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Both men wear dark suits and ties, and the Israeli and American flags hang in front of a blue curtain beyond the two leaders. Why Biden’s Gaza Gambit Is Likely to Fail
The U.S. president wants a truce more than Israel and Hamas do.
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An Israeli soldier wearing a patch on the back of his flack jacket showing Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as a target, stands in front of a self-propelled artillery howitzer in Upper Galilee in northern Israel on January 4, 2024. Israel and Lebanon Won’t End Up at War
The fighting is intensifying—but neither side wants an all-out escalation.
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A woman wearing a short sleeve shirt stands in a doorway inside a house. Bullet holes can be seen in the walls behind her and writing and spray paint is on a wall. Inside Israel, the Gaza War Looks Very Different
Mired in the trauma of Oct. 7, many see the war as one of existential necessity.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, U.S. President Bill Clinton, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat walk at Camp David, Maryland, on July 11, 2000. America’s Israel Policy Is Stuck in the 1990s
Washington has been making a series of bad assumptions that trace back 30 years.
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U.S. President Joe Biden stands at a podium in front of a row of hedges on a sunny day. Biden is a man in his 80s with white hair, and he wears a black suit and a serious expression as he speaks. Americans Don’t Want a Wartime President
If Biden can avoid the temptation to be a warrior defending allies abroad, he might have a better chance at winning his battles at home.
