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The End of Netanyahu

October 22, 2023

A ripped poster of Benjamin Netanyahu's face lies discarded on blue-painted concrete ground in Tel Aviv.

Netanyahu’s Attack on Democracy Left Israel Unprepared

October 21, 2023

Soldiers looking solemnly at graves covered in Israeli flags

Washington Week With The Atlantic

A Paralyzed House Complicates Biden’s Plans for Israel

October 21, 2023

Guests talk around a table on Washington Week With the Atlantic

Calls for a Cease-Fire—But Then What?

October 21, 2023

A pro-Palestinian protest in Washington, D.C.

Yes, the U.S. Can Afford to Help Its Allies

October 20, 2023

A composite image of two photos, one featuring Volodymyr Zelensky and Joe Biden, the other featuring Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu

A Collection of Narratives on the Israel-Hamas War

Conor Friedersdorf

October 19, 2023

Soldiers take cover as they launch mortar rounds towards Gaza in southern part of Israel, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023.

Hamas’s Hostage-Taking Handbook Says to ‘Kill the Difficult Ones’ and Use Hostages as ‘Human Shields’

October 19, 2023

A desert road full of people and a packed Toyota truck

Egypt’s Gaza Problem

October 19, 2023

People gathered at the Rafah border crossing

What’s Next in Gaza

October 18, 2023

Photo of Israeli soldiers around a mortar launcher firing toward Gaza from Be'eri, Israel, on Tuesday, October 17, 2023.

Beware the Language That Erases Reality

October 18, 2023

Two militants with words of statement superimposed on them

Four Misconceptions About the War in Gaza

October 18, 2023

In a stretch of desert with smoke rising in the distance, a Hamas fighter on the back of a motorcycle raises his weapon and points to the sky.

The Best of Bad Options for Recovering the Hostages

October 17, 2023

A photo of a pinboard where people have posted details of relatives taken hostage by Hamas.

What Is Israel Trying to Accomplish?

October 17, 2023

A photo of Sderot through raindrops

Students for Pogroms in Israel

Conor Friedersdorf

October 14, 2023

Pro-Palestinian students take part in a protest in support of the Palestinians amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, at Columbia University in New York City, U.S., October 12, 2023.

Israel Is Walking Into a Trap

October 13, 2023

Israeli soldiers on a tank near the Israel-Gaza border

The Lessons Israel Failed to Learn From the Yom Kippur War

Keren Yarhi-Milo and Tim Naftali

October 13, 2023

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan in Tel Aviv, August 1, 1973

Photos: Dire Conditions in Gaza

October 12, 2023

Picture of Palestinians carrying a casualty from the rubble in the aftermath of Israeli strikes in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 11, 2023.

Israel Must Not React Stupidly

October 12, 2023

American and Israeli flags

The Left Abandoned Me

October 12, 2023

Cars destroyed after the Hamas attack in Israel

Hamas May Not Have a Step Two

October 11, 2023

An illustration showing Hamas fighters overlaid with dot graphics

‘Be Absolutely Quiet. Not a Word.’

October 10, 2023

People run away from the camera across a dirt field as a man wearing a black balaclava stands in the foreground holding a gun

Biden Will Be Guided by His Zionism

October 10, 2023

A photo-illustration featuring Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, and a rocket

The Reckoning

Yossi Klein Halevi

October 10, 2023

Firefighters battle a blaze.

‘We’re Going to Die Here’

October 9, 2023

A car destroyed by Palestinian militants in Sderot, Israel, on Saturday, October 7, 2023

The Atlantic Daily

Hamas’s Attack Confounds Middle East Experts

October 9, 2023

This War Isn’t Like Israel’s Earlier Wars

October 9, 2023

Left: A Skyhawk levels for a ground attack to aid an Israeli infantry column during the battle for the Golan Heights in the Yom Kippur War. Right: Israeli soldiers deploy in an area where civilians were killed in the southern city of Sderot on October 7, 2023.

The Israeli Military Wasn’t Ready for This

October 9, 2023

Black-and-white photo of three Israeli soldiers standing near circular barbed-wire fencing

This Debacle Will Transform Israel

October 9, 2023

A member of the Israeli forces runs past a fire in Ashkelon following a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip.

Is Israel at War With Iran?

October 8, 2023

A photo collage of the Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and smoke billowing over Gaza City on October 7

A Shocked and Frazzled Collective Mind

October 8, 2023

A man running from a rocket attack

A Message From Iran

October 8, 2023

A rocket rises into a yellow, smoky sky from a darkened urban area in Gaza.

The Atlantic Daily

Five Observations About the War in Israel

October 8, 2023

Rockets fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza City, are intercepted by the Israeli Iron Dome defence missile system on October 7, 2023.

This Will Be a Pyrrhic Victory for Hamas

October 7, 2023

Destroyed houses after Israeli attacks in Gaza City

A Historic Cataclysm in the Middle East

October 7, 2023

Rockets launched by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip toward Israel on October 7, 2023

A Devastating Attack by Hamas

Juliette Kayyem

October 7, 2023

A member of the Israeli security forces next to a burning car

A Country Shaped by Love and Fear

Robert Zaretsky

August 31, 2023

Protesters in Israel