The Real End of the Arab–Israeli Conflict?
The strategic case for Syria–Israel normalisation.
Aurele Tobelem
· 8 min read
Politics
A collection of 739 posts
Israel's Most Consequential Election
Israelis go to the polls on 27 October. After seventeen years of Netanyahu, former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot is in the lead.
Benny Morris
· 15 min read
A Bright September Day
Reflections on a morning that changed the world as we knew it.
Jesse Inman
· 6 min read
The Retro Fashion of the Wealth Tax
Every few decades, the ideas with the worst track records come back into style.
Kristian Niemietz
· 8 min read
Antizionist City
A community that embraces a set of shared beliefs is not necessarily a bad thing, but the value of solidarity depends entirely on the merits of the cause in question.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
Power Without Principle
The Trump administration does not know how to use American power to expand American influence, and its officials do not care to learn.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
An Abject Policy Failure
An unorthodox survey suggests it’s time for the Australian government to concede defeat in the tobacco wars. Will it have the guts to do so?
Stephen Dawson
· 8 min read
Reasons to Leave China
The Chinese Communist Party cannot and will not accept that its time in the sun has passed. But the public knows.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read
Drink More Ovaltine
The jokes we told in a Venezuelan prison.
Joseph G. St. Clair
· 11 min read
What Is Canada For?
Might Canada’s fate foreshadow that of other advanced but dependent democracies, clinging to old ideals of cooperation and diplomacy as they’re rolled under the treads of China’s or America’s naked self-interest?
George Case
· 9 min read
J.K. Rowling vs. Amnesty
Is this the reckoning that human-rights NGOs have long avoided?
Danielle Haas
· 10 min read
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Amid a regional scramble to shape the “day after,” Jordan appears to be the only country without a plan of its own.
Aurele Tobelem
· 9 min read
Is the Pro-Palestine Movement Israel’s Unlikely Ally?
By framing terrorism and armed struggle as legitimate resistance, the pro-Palestine movement has unwittingly strengthened Israel’s case that withdrawal and concessions carry unacceptable risks.
Royee Zvi Atadgy
· 6 min read
Blood, Progress, and Amnesia
There is real value in Noah Rothman's century-spanning chronicle of left-wing terror, but it falls short in analysis.
Jason Manning
· 9 min read
The Pacific's True Rogue State
Beijing just launched a nuclear-capable missile into the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone and called it routine. It was not.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read