Israel’s Perfect Failure
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.
Uri Bar-Joseph
· 19 min read
Middle East
A collection of 38 posts
From Gaza to the Ivory Tower: The War on Israel
An honest conversation with the hard-hitting Israeli historian Gadi Taub.
Gadi Taub, Pamela Paresky
· 27 min read
Podcast #274: David Frum on Donald Trump’s Betrayal of Ukraine
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.’
Quillette
· 2 min read
A Kinder, Gentler Eliminationism
Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.
Susie Linfield
· 18 min read
Jihadist at a Crossroads
Syria’s new leader will have to balance his Islamist beliefs with the more pressing tasks of state-building and economic development.
Sean Welsh
· 11 min read
Syrian Torture, Then and Now
The atrocities committed by the Assad regime were no secret—but they were met with Western inaction.
Susie Linfield
· 7 min read
Syria and the Changing Global Calculus
Iran and Russia have suffered serious setbacks over the past year, but grave dangers remain.
Joshua Muravchik
· 19 min read
The Weak Horse
Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
The Return of the Black Flags
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.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
A Measure of Justice in Beirut
The decapitation of Lebanese Hezbollah is a cause for celebration well beyond the borders of Israel.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
The Feckless Lebanese State
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.
Eric Bordenkircher
· 8 min read
The Quincy Institute’s Middle East Fantasies
The positions adopted by the think tank’s scholars during the war in Gaza are illustrative of its overall Middle East agenda: appease Iran and demonise Israel.
Leon Hadar
· 15 min read
The Politicisation of International Justice
A dissection of the ICC’s warrant application reveals that obvious liberties have been taken with the truth.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 11 min read
The Bell 212 Tolls for Tehran
We should celebrate the death of the Butcher of Tehran, but Iran’s future remains fraught with uncertainty.
Paul Monk
· 11 min read
Dan Schueftan on the Palestine-Israel Conflict
Pamela Paresky interviews the outspoken Israeli academic.
Pamela Paresky, Dan Schueftan
· 34 min read