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Sep 22, 2024, 5:57 PM

How Exploding Pagers Can Lead to Calm along Israel-Lebanon Border

This week's exploding-pager-and-walkie-talkie attack on Lebanese Hezbollah sends the scary message that Israel, which has so far been mum on its alleged responsibility, can kill, maim or injure thousands of fighters without firing a shot. The subsequent targeted killing...

Jun 13, 2024, 4:19 PM

The Gaza ceasefire proposal needs this crucial change

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends the 'Call for Action: Urgent Humanitarian Response for Gaza' conference, at the Dead Sea, Jordan, June 11, 2024. (Alaa Al Sukhni/Pool Photo via AP)

In Biden's telling of the deal, there's a weakness when it comes to who guarantees that Hamas and Israel fulfill their commitments

May 5, 2024, 5:49 PM

A Yom Hashoah message, from disgust to hope

On Yom Hashoah 2024, I have two messages: First, at this time of terrible, tragic conflict, let's remember how Middle East actors warp Holocaust memory for political purposes. Take, for example, this al-Jazeera clip featuring a wacky Israeli expressing fringe views equating Israel with the Nazis...

Apr 29, 2024, 6:22 AM

As an American, I am ashamed

(Remarks delivered at the weekly “Bring Them Home Now!” rally for the hostages, in front of the national headquarters of the American Red Cross, Washington DC - prepared for delivery, April 28, 2024) "We meet today in the middle of...

Mar 21, 2024, 5:30 PM

Sadly, WaPost admits no error in story filled with them

The Washington Post has spoken. In response to my 5000+ word Times of Israel critique of its December 2 story "Israel's assault forced a nurse to leave babies behind. They were found decomposing,” the Post’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee,...

Mar 3, 2024, 10:37 PM

Once again, a ‘Palestinian babies’ story merits a Washington Post apology

Discrepencies cast doubt on when events happened and how many died, and a reporter's conflict of interest is undisclosed

Dec 20, 2023, 8:59 PM

In the case against the Washington Post, Exhibit A is NBC News

It’s been a week since I published a Times of Israel essay showing that the Washington Post – both reporters abroad and editors at home -- committed journalistic malpractice in its unsourced, unverified, unbalanced Nov. 17 story claiming that...

Dec 13, 2023, 12:01 AM

Did Israel really separate Palestinian mothers from their babies?

Palestinian mothers with their children, Jerusalem. (Wikipedia Commons)

The Washington Post said so, which means its reporters did their due diligence, right? But they didn't

Nov 21, 2023, 1:13 AM

How the Washington Post turned a feel-good story into an anti-Israel attack

Neonatal ward, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva (Israel Government Press Office)

Sadly, tendentious media reporting from the Hamas-Israel war has grown commonplace but I have never seen a story quite like the Washington Post piece headlined “Israel’s war with Hamas separates Palestinian babies from their mothers.” The Post, one should recall,...

Oct 30, 2023, 10:30 PM

Hamas vs. Israel: The limits of analogy

IDF chief of staff Herzl Halevi with troops near Gaza, Israel Defense Forces @IDF (X, formerly Twitter).

War, as Clausewitz famously said, is often shrouded in fog. For journalists, diplomats, experts and analysts, one tool to cut through the fog of war is analogy. These references to things known can be helpful in explaining what is...

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Robert Satloff is the Segal executive director of The Washington Institute and its Howard P. Berkowitz Chair in U.S. Middle East Policy.

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