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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presided over disasters before – and remained in power. But is the intelligence failure preceding the Hamas attack so big that this time he won’t?
As the war between Hamas and Israel grinds forward, two experts explain how Israelis and Palestinians have cooperated to tackle their region’s water challenges.
Many people who aren’t Jewish are responding as if what’s been taking place is just another episode of Israeli-Palestinian violence. But it’s different for many Jews.
A historian whose family was taken hostage by Hamas, and a geographer with family in the West Bank, get together to discuss a way forward in the Middle East.
Antisemitism in the US is growing – and that growth appears to be related to the escalation of the conflict between Israel and Hamas. It also reflects a different political ideology than in the past.
Deliberately circulated disinformation — big lies — are used to foment Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism, with deadly consequences.
Hezbollah dominates Lebanon’s sectarian political system, giving the paralyzed government little choice if the militant group chooses to join Hamas’ war against Israel.
A decade of de-escalation among Gulf states could be at risk if Israel-Hamas violence spills across region. And that could threaten Saudi plans to transform the kingdom.
The joint Women Wage Peace-Women of the Sun initiative unites Israeli and Palestinian women calling for peace. The international community should elevate their voices.
Israel’s warning to civilians in Gaza of impending attacks must be ‘effective’ under international law, meaning it must not only reach people but allow them sufficient time to evacuate safely.
Hospitals have been destroyed, and doctors and health care staff killed. Gaza’s health services may take years to recover, warns a Palestinian health specialist.
US president Joe Biden has warned that occupation would be a ‘big mistake’ – and history seems to agree.
Israel’s foundational social contract – that the government would keep Israelis safe – was severed with the deadly attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.
This unleashing of violence, including the initial acts and the response to them, inevitably leads to war crimes.
Israel’s war with Hamas is unlike anything Israelis have seen before in some important ways, writes an Israeli filmmaker. But in other ways, it is reminiscent of the distant and not so long ago past.
Many people in Gaza are reliant on the United Nations and other international aid groups to meet their basic needs, like food and medical care. A scholar of peace and conflict economics explains why.
The enclave abutting Israel has been described as the world’s ‘largest open-air prison.’ Conditions have deteriorated for the population there under a 16-year blockade.
What we published across the network in the days after war reignited in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Hamas named its action ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’, which emphasises what it sees as Israeli acts of desecration of a holy Islamic site in Jerusalem.
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona
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Research Scholar, Middle East Studies, Australian National University
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Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
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Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, UCL
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Associate Professor of International Relations, American University School of International Service
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Affiliate Researcher, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University
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Visiting Scholar of Global Affairs, Northwestern University
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Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Global Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada