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Sep 13, 2024, 12:23 AM

Why the Israeli protest movement matters

The murder of Carmel Gat, Ori Danino, Alex Lubanov, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, and Almog Sarusi at the hands of their Hamas captors has brought Israel to a new low point of hopelessness and despair. Several of them were...

Aug 8, 2024, 3:57 PM

Sleepwalking into a regional war

US President Joe Biden, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The hostage deal is nearly dead, in no small part thanks to Netanyahu’s duplicity. His indecision is an existential threat to Israel

May 12, 2023, 5:13 PM

The Coalition’s Ideological Homogeneity Was a Mirage

When Binyamin Netanyahu triumphantly came to power in the waning days of 2022, the sense among most analysts of Israeli politics was that he was poised to bring political stability. Netanyahu’s bloc had achieved Israel’s first decisive victory in...

Dec 7, 2020, 3:29 PM

The road to Arab-Israeli peace should go through Muscat

This image made from video shows Oman's sultan, Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, making his first speech in front of the Royal Family Council in Muscat, Oman, January 11, 2020. (Oman TV via AP)

If Israel truly wants to become an integrated part of the Middle East, it needs to look past obvious military alliances and reach beyond the Saudi orbit... to Oman

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Alex Lederman is the senior policy and communications associate at Israel Policy Forum.