Our Best Reads on the Middle East Crisis
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Tag: Middle East and North Africa
Is the Israel-Hamas War Closer to Its Beginning or Its End?
As the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack and the ensuing Israel-Hamas war approaches, the prospects of peace between ...
More Wars, a Failed State, and a Step Back by the United States
Someday, probably later rather than sooner, Israel and Hamas will stop shooting at each other. Relieved U.S. officials could claim ...
Can the U.S. Still Prevent an All-Out Middle East War?
In the year since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, Israel has gone from looking more vulnerable than it has for half ...
Israel’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ Moment in the Middle East
On May 1, 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush donned a cool-looking flight suit, climbed into an S-3 Viking aircraft, ...
Will Nasrallah’s Demise Save Netanyahu?
The Israeli assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week made a lot of Israelis happy—but probably no one quite ...
What Israel Learned From the 2006 Lebanon War
The Israeli military launched what it described as a “limited, localized” ground offensive into Lebanon on Monday in a bid ...
Can Israel Kill Its Way to Victory Over Hezbollah?
Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other top commanders in recent weeks is part of a dramatic shift ...
How Beirut Reacted to Nasrallah’s Death
BEIRUT—When Israel announced that it had killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah at 11 a.m. local time on Saturday, the news ...
Charisma and Militancy Powered Nasrallah’s Rise, but He Became One More Corrupt Warlord
The last time Israel assassinated the leader of Hezbollah, it quickly regretted the choice. But the lessons of the early ...
