Israel

Party mergers and other systemic problems have buried the country’s once-vaunted female political leadership.

Here’s why Trump’s latest gambit probably won’t settle the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

A U.S. peace plan seems designed mainly to get Bibi reelected. The Palestinians aren’t even invited.

As long as the prime minister remains in power, the electorate’s true preference—a centrist, secular, national unity government—will remain unfulfilled.

False claims of national origin play into the goals of the Christian and Israeli right.

The best Foreign Policy stories of 2019 on Israel’s electoral crisis.

Trump impeached, Turkey’s refugee resettlement plan, and López Obrador’s poor record combating drug cartels.

The United States and Israel call themselves allies, but they don’t have a formal defense treaty governing their relationship. Here’s why.

Washington could find itself fighting its way back into the region for the first time since World War II.

Deep funding cuts and the gutting of Israel’s diplomatic service is undermining the prime minister’s ambitious foreign-policy agenda.

Putting America’s annual $3.8 billion of military assistance to Israel on the chopping block makes for good politics. But it makes no sense for U.S. national security.

The U.S. president is an unreliable ally.

From now on, the United States will have trouble fending off other territorial claims.

Even after a devastating indictment, it may be too soon to count out the Israeli prime minister known as “the magician.”

The Trump administration’s disdain for international consensus on the West Bank will encourage previously cautious governments to support BDS and Palestinian statehood.