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Nov 2, 2026, 2:42 AM

How to begin the Gaza endgame

People walk past a puddle by a tent shelter erected near the rubble of a collapsed building in the Nasr neighborhood in western Gaza City on April 15, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Moving civilians out of Hamas-controlled areas and into temporary housing could pave the way to defeating the group and rebuilding the Strip

Ilana K. Levinsky

Oct 26, 2026, 2:11 PM

Excusing Murder and Inheriting Palestine

Hamas is granted an entire history to explain its violence, while Jews are denied the history that explains their very presence. And somehow, this passes for serious scholarship. I would love to know who gave these academics the authority...

Oct 19, 2026, 6:47 PM

Has Hamas Really Agreed to Disarm?

Store them or Destroy them

One simple amendment to the Gaza peace plan could reveal whether Hamas is serious about permanently surrendering its weapons or merely buying time. President Trump announced a historic breakthrough in July when Hamas conditionally accepted a 15-point roadmap toward disarmament,...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 16, 2026, 3:31 AM

Hamas’s Footprint in Latin America

The Islamic Republic of Iran has methodically built a Hamas foothold across Latin America, extending its "Axis of Resistance" deep into the Western Hemisphere. Paraguayan counterterrorism forces first confirmed this forward deployment in November 2000 by arresting Salah Abdul...

Oct 15, 2026, 10:30 AM

The Opposition: Demanded Surrender, Now Promising Victory

Photo montage: Gadi Eisenkot © Yahav Trudler / Yahav Studio; Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid © Avi Ohayon; Yair Golan © Shlomi Amsalem; Avigdor Liberman, US Department of Defense / Jette Carr (public domain). Images sourced from Wikimedia Commons, cropped and combined. Composite licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Original photographs licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 and 4.0, as applicable.

Israel is in the final weeks of an election campaign, and the election propaganda machine is now in full swing. Old claims are being recycled, accusations made and records rewritten, while almost three years of war continue to be...

Oct 14, 2026, 3:04 PM

Out of the Worst of Wars, a Better Way to Save a Life

Helicopter evacuation of wounded in Gaza. Photo ©️ Amit Agronov, 2026

When most people picture military medicine, they picture a tent. Perhaps they think of MASH*, the television series named for the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, a model that made sense for Korea and Vietnam. The wounded were brought to...

Oct 14, 2026, 10:38 AM

Netanyahu Was Warned About Hamas – Years Ago

As Israel approaches another election, a succession of reports has revealed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received warnings from Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Israeli security officials about the growing danger of a Hamas attack. He was also...

Elkana Bar Eitan

Sep 28, 2026, 4:06 AM

The Mathematics of Freedom

There are very few passages that I know, from the moment I first read them, will remain with me forever. One is Natan Sharansky’s description of playing chess against himself in his mind during the long years he spent...

Sep 26, 2026, 12:29 PM

Greta Thunberg. From climate icon to career activist

Some of the word causes Greta Thunberg seems to purposefully ignore. AI image generated with the author's prompting

Has Greta Thunberg now outgrown her own core cause? Greta Thunberg built up her global following on one single claim of expertise. The environment. She claimed that the science of climate change was clear and all world leaders were not...

Richard D. Gitlin

Sep 23, 2026, 9:18 PM

NAZA and the Inversion of Evidence

A new Israeli documentary, NAZA, has arrived with an explosive accusation. Directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the four co-directors of the Oscar-winning No Other Land, the film recently won the Special Jury Prize at...

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