The Middle East Powder Keg
Fragile ceasefires are holding for now, but the volatile region may be headed for another explosion next year.
Benny Morris
· 14 min read
Israel
A collection of 198 posts
Exposing the Qatar Lobby: Chama Mechtaly on Islamism, Censorship, and the West | Quillette Cetera Ep. 57
How Qatar's ideological reach—from think tanks to media—has stifled dissent and enabled Islamism in the West.
Zoe Booth, Chama Mechtaly
· 27 min read
Power and Its Malcontents
Shadi Hamid has an uneasy conscience, and he doesn’t yet know what to do with it.
Brian Stewart
· 25 min read
Starving for Headlines
How the media perpetuates Gaza’s suffering.
Aaron Travis
· 10 min read
Despite Israel, Not Because of It
Israelis repeatedly warned the Bush administration that invading Iraq would be a disaster.
David Brog
· 10 min read
The Qatar Problem
Doha can change when it is forced to, and it must be forced to choose moderation.
Chama Mechtaly
· 14 min read
A Perfect Storm
How Muslim and Christian antisemitism have converged with anti-Israel sentiment—some of it justified—to fuel the Free Palestine protests across the West.
Benny Morris
· 10 min read
The Middle East Will Not Improve
Decades of free riding has meant that many Middle East countries lack the skills and institutions necessary to maintain and build upon the favourable circumstances in which they now find themselves.
Eric Bordenkircher
· 10 min read
Inside the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s War-Zone Aid Operation
An in-depth interview with Chapin Fay of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on delivering aid in a war zone—and why their unconventional model has drawn both praise and criticism.
Pamela Paresky
· 27 min read
Terror’s Intelligence Apparatus
Netanel Flamer’s book about Hamas’s intelligence war on Israel could be read with equal interest by members of Western security forces, and by members of the very groups against which they struggle.
Daniel Allington
· 7 min read
They Don’t Believe It Either
The “Gaza genocide” calumny has become the Left’s equivalent of the “stolen election” hoax on the American Right—a baseless accusation that signals ideological allegiance precisely because it defies logic and evidence.
Maarten Boudry
· 13 min read
David’s Unholstered Sling
Lessons from 7 October and the 2023–25 war.
Brian Stewart
· 17 min read
The Honour and the Duty
Yossi Cohen has written a bracing and lively memoir about his time as head of Mossad.
Michael M. Rosen
· 6 min read
Romance Across the Divide with David Christopher Kaufman | Quillette Cetera Ep. 55
David Kaufman on what followed when a Palestinian date mentioned genocide—in bed—with a Zionist.
Zoe Booth, David Christopher Kaufman
· 22 min read
Israel’s Hard-Won Victory
The Jewish state has secured its borders, recovered all living hostages, and put its enemies on notice as to what awaits them if they attempt a reprise of 7 October.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 6 min read