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Jun 11, 2026, 4:36 PM

Israel: A Sovereign State on a Short Leash

For most of its history, Israel's alliance with the United States rested on an unwritten understanding: Israel depended on Washington, but the final decisions were made in Jerusalem. Today, more and more Israelis are beginning to question that assumption. American...

Jun 5, 2026, 7:08 PM

Will the Ultra-Orthodox and the Messianic Right Find a Common Enemy?

The shattered windows at the home of the Deputy Supreme Court Chief Justice are more than just an ugly act of vandalism. They should sound a much deeper alarm. They likely signal a dangerous new phase in the evolution...

May 30, 2026, 10:10 AM

Exporting Division: Netanyahu’s War on American Jewish Pluralism

When Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to Washington and a prominent leader of the settlement movement, labeled the liberal lobby J Street a “cancer within the American Jewish community,” it was no mere slip of the tongue. It was the...

May 24, 2026, 5:43 PM

I Was Invited to Meet Ahmadinejad. Then a CIA Wife Called.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is suddenly back in the news. According to a recent report in The New York Times, Israeli and American officials at one point reportedly discussed the possibility of supporting him as a potential post-clerical figure in Iran,...

Apr 22, 2026, 6:58 PM

What If: Would Israel and Iran Trade Peace for a Palestinian State?

Call it inconceivable—if not unthinkable. In international politics, today’s impossibilities have a habit of becoming tomorrow’s realities. If Donald Trump still harbors ambitions for a Nobel Peace Prize, he may be looking in the wrong direction. Even significant normalization agreements...

Apr 18, 2026, 5:32 PM

How Israel Neglects Its Holocaust Survivors

A few days ago, on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day), Israel presented itself as the world’s foremost guardian of Holocaust memory. Sirens sound, traffic halts, and a nation stands in silence. The ritual is solemn, disciplined, and deeply ingrained,...

Apr 15, 2026, 8:00 AM

Echoes of 1956: How Hungarians Finally Turned on Orbán

On Saturday night, one day before the elections, thousands of Hungarians chanted in the streets of Budapest: “Russians Go Home.” It was once a slogan directed at Soviet tanks, but now it was aimed at the man who had...

Mar 16, 2026, 7:45 PM

The Iran War Could Unleash the Next Refugee Crisis

Wars are usually measured in bombs dropped and lives lost. Yet their most enduring costs often emerge later, in the form of mass displacement and refugee crises that reshape societies for decades. The war now unfolding between Israel, the...

Mar 10, 2026, 1:16 PM

Divided by War: American Jews After Gaza and Iran

For decades, American Jews rarely had to choose between their political convictions and their attachment to Israel. Support for Israel and commitment to liberal American politics largely reinforced one another, forming a stable alignment that defined postwar American Jewish...

Feb 22, 2026, 1:48 PM

Robert Duvall in The Plains, Virginia

The passing of Robert Duvall brought back a small, vivid chapter of my life in northern Virginia—a world I visited each week, but to which I never fully belonged. In the mid-1990s, my wife, Louise, and I lived in Manassas,...

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About Me

Yehuda Lukacs, born in Budapest, received his Ph.D. in International Relations from American University's School of International Service. He is Associate Professor Emeritus of Global Affairs at George Mason University. His books include Op-Ed: Musings on War & Peace in the Middle East and Beyond; Israel, Jordan and the Peace Process; The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Documentary Record; Documents on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Two Decades of Change. He is the Executive Producer of the documentary film Migration Studies. filmed in Hungary and Serbia in 2017.

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