Ted Sasson

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Jun 9, 2025, 4:54 PM

This new Gaza operation risks crossing red lines

A youth carries an empty box of relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, as displaced Palestinians walk near a food distribution center in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on June 1, 2025. (AFP)

Israel must make clear to its global allies that it is not, in fact, intending to perpetrate ethnic cleansing in Gaza

Feb 6, 2025, 4:47 PM

Trump doesn’t want Gaza

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The US president is sending signals to Hamas, Israeli right-wingers and Republicans as he tees up a grand deal with Saudi Arabia

Dec 24, 2024, 3:09 PM

There is no consensus against a Palestinian state

MKs Simcha Rothman and Yuli Edelstein attend a plenum session in the Knesset, December 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Proposed legislation would block a two-state solution, but surveys don't support the claim that it's what 'most Israelis' deeply want

Nov 10, 2024, 4:10 PM

How big is the divide between Israeli and American Jews?

People holding Israeli flags gather for the annual Israel Day Parade on Fifth Avenue on Sunday, June 2, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Despite sharply different positions on the US presidential election, the communities are closer than they appear

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About Me

Ted Sasson is a senior researcher at INSS and director of Jewish Studies at Middlebury College.