Power and Its Malcontents
Shadi Hamid has an uneasy conscience, and he doesn’t yet know what to do with it.
A collection of 196 posts
Shadi Hamid has an uneasy conscience, and he doesn’t yet know what to do with it.
How the media perpetuates Gaza’s suffering.
Israelis repeatedly warned the Bush administration that invading Iraq would be a disaster.
Doha can change when it is forced to, and it must be forced to choose moderation.
How Muslim and Christian antisemitism have converged with anti-Israel sentiment—some of it justified—to fuel the Free Palestine protests across the West.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lessons from 7 October and the 2023–25 war.
Yossi Cohen has written a bracing and lively memoir about his time as head of Mossad.
David Kaufman on what followed when a Palestinian date mentioned genocide—in bed—with a Zionist.
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.
Trump’s peace plan brings the hostages home and halts fighting in Gaza, but Hamas’s refusal to disarm and Israeli concerns about Palestinian statehood threaten the deal’s long-term survival.
A new book by two former peace processors makes clear that statehood was never the goal of the Palestinian cause.