Israel Will Combine Military Force with Diplomatic Maneuvering to End the War with Hamas
Making sense of the new Gaza policy.
August 11, 2025
Major Western Countries Are Recognizing “Palestine.” Why Should Anyone Care?
The legal and diplomatic implications.
Recently, Britain, France, and Canada have announced plans to recognize a Palestinian state. Doing so does nothing to help Palestinians, and probably doesn’t do much to advance the creation of an actual Palestinian state. But do these moves have legal and policy ramifications? If they are purely symbolic, is Israel best off ignoring them? Aylana Meisel-Diament puts these questions, and those that flow from them, to Elliott Abrams. (Video, 54 minutes.)
August 11, 2025
Major Western Countries Are Recognizing “Palestine.” Why Should Anyone Care?
The legal and diplomatic implications.
Having No Religion Means Different Things to Different People
The varieties of irreligious experience.
Fiction in the Holocaust’s Shadow
Rooms for Vanishing.
A Bosnian Museum Exploits a Medieval Haggadah to Make the Jews Pay for Their Sins
The Jewish story will prevail.