Israel

The Trump administration’s policies don’t represent a radical shift. The White House has simply abandoned the facade of neutrality and rubber-stamped the Israeli government’s agenda.

On the 25th anniversary of the landmark Israeli-Palestinian deal, activists and diplomats should focus on recreating the conditions that made it possible.

Israel has fully joined the battle in Syria—but it's not clear it can achieve any of its goals there.

Fighters were armed and paid to keep Iranian-linked forces away from Israel’s border.

What happens when private firms have cyberweapons as powerful as those owned by governments?

Cuts could deepen economic crisis in the West Bank and Gaza and lead to violence.

On our podcast: Colin Kahl was targeted by Black Cube, the same company Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein hired to discredit his accusers.

The U.N. agency chief for Palestinian refugees warns funding cuts risk undermining Middle East stability.

The U.N.'s agency for Palestinians should stop playing word games and do its job.

Netanyahu has antagonized Israel’s most loyal Arab allies and opened a new front in the country’s culture wars.

In internal emails, Jared Kushner advocated a “sincere effort to disrupt” the U.N.’s relief agency for Palestinians.

On the podcast: When Israeli extremists plotted to blow up the Dome of the Rock.

Politicians are exploiting a period of relative calm to gamble with the country’s future.

Russia is more important than the United States in averting war between Israel and Syria.

Pushing for regime change in Tehran could put Qassem Suleimani in power.

A new law before the Israeli parliament would demote Arabic as an official language — and undermine equality.

The second season of the acclaimed TV thriller “Fauda” obscures the dark realities of Israeli rule in the West Bank.

Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, dead at 92, showed the world the Holocaust through eyewitnesses.

The two-state solution is dead. Most one-state solutions are unacceptable to the other side. There is, however, a viable peace plan that appeals to both.

The last thing Israelis and Palestinians need now is another failed blueprint. Stabilizing Gaza is more important.