A collection of 42 posts
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews Jonathan Spyer, director of research at the Middle East Forum, about how Israel laid the groundwork for its war with Iran by confronting threats in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.
The Israeli attack on Iran is in line with its longstanding policy of never allowing its neighbouring enemies to acquire nuclear weapons. But it is also the latest episode in the wider war against Israel launched in late 2023 by Iran’s proxies.
Douglas Murray’s new book looks at the dangers posed by the burgeoning coalition of radical leftists and Islamists in the wake of 7 October.
Donald Trump has an opportunity to influence the Qatari monarchy away from supporting jihad and towards promoting peace. But will he take it?
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.
An honest conversation with the hard-hitting Israeli historian Gadi Taub.
Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer David Frum about Trump’s pro-Russian political cult. Also discussed: Israel, the fate of Gaza, Justin Trudeau, and the strange social panic surrounding Canada’s (as yet undiscovered) ‘unmarked graves.’
Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.
Syria’s new leader will have to balance his Islamist beliefs with the more pressing tasks of state-building and economic development.
The atrocities committed by the Assad regime were no secret—but they were met with Western inaction.
Iran and Russia have suffered serious setbacks over the past year, but grave dangers remain.
Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.
The conditions that first produced ISIS have been left to fester as part of a wider malign neglect toward the Muslim Middle East in the aftermath of the Iraq war.
The decapitation of Lebanese Hezbollah is a cause for celebration well beyond the borders of Israel.
American money and goodwill cannot fix a state when its own people refuse to make the sacrifices necessary to establish and defend effective, efficient, and responsible governance.