Don’t Let Hamas Have a Say in Gaza’s Postwar Government
Political power is as important as disarmament.
November 7, 2025
A Victory for American Allies in Western Sahara
The alternative: a new failed state under the non-democratic rule of an Iran-backed militia.
Last week, the UN Security Council endorsed a Moroccan plan to resolve the conflict in Western Sahara, which would involve giving the region autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty. The decision, writes Elliott Abrams, is an “important victory” for Rabat. The nearly 50-year-long dispute in northwest Africa may be the closest analogue anywhere to the Israel-Palestinian conflict: it involves a territory that a European colonial power abandoned without any agreement over who would rule it, and it pits a U.S. ally (Morocco) against a guerrilla force with leftist roots (the Polisario Front) aligned with anti-American powers (Algeria and, less directly, Iran).
November 7, 2025
A Victory for American Allies in Western Sahara
The alternative: a new failed state under the non-democratic rule of an Iran-backed militia.
Anti-Israel Candidates Lose in Minneapolis and (Probably) Seattle
Zohran Mamdani’s success isn’t the whole story.
The Heroic Japanese Hebraist Who Saved Jews from the Nazis and Then Embraced Judaism
Remembering Setsuzo Kotsuji.
A Byzantine-Era Synagogue Discovered in the Golan Heights
An archaeological puzzle solved.