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Photo of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu standing alone in parliament.
Brief Analysis
A Snapshot of Israel’s Deepening Diplomatic Isolation: Comparing Key UNGA Votes, 2017-2025
The voting patterns highlight Israel’s worsening international isolation, with even some of its longtime defenders leaving the fold.
Sep 15, 2025
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  • Robert Satloff
Leaders of the United States, Israel, Bahrain, and the UAE sign the Abraham Accords at the White House in 2020 - source: Reuters
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Brief Analysis
The Abraham Accords at Five Years: Resilience and Roadblocks
Watch an expert webcast on the impact and future of the Abraham Accords as the Arab-Israeli agreements approach their fifth anniversary.
Sep 11, 2025
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  • Victoria Coates
  • Amir Hayek
  • Yael Lempert
  • Ahdeya al-Sayed
Netanyahu, Trump, and Foreign Ministers Zayani (Bahrain) and Abdullah bin Zayed (UAE) at the Abraham Accords ceremony, Sep 15, 2020.
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In-Depth Reports
Resilience and Roadblocks:
The Abraham Accords at Five Years
The architecture behind Arab-Israel normalization has survived the war years, but expansion to other countries will require a credible embrace of diplomacy, along with regional collaboration to shape Gaza’s future.
Sep 11, 2025
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  • David Makovsky
Photo of smoke rising over Doha following an Israeli strike in September 2025.
Brief Analysis
Israel Strikes Qatar: Implications for Gaza Diplomacy, Gulf Relations, and U.S. Policy
A compilation of Washington Institute views on the fallout of the targeted strike on Hamas leaders in Doha, including what the United States and its partners can do to translate this latest Israeli military surprise into beneficial political achievements.
Sep 10, 2025
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  • Robert Satloff
  • Elizabeth Dent
  • Simon Henderson
  • David Makovsky
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Brief Analysis
Recognizing “Palestine”: Rationale, Expectations, Implications
Join us for an expert webcast regarding the latest international push to recognize Palestinian statehood amid the latest UN General Assembly meetings. Watch live starting at 12:00 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) on Thursday, September 18, 2025.
September 18, 2025, starting at 12 noon EDT (1600 GMT)
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  • Tal Becker
  • Samer Sinijlawi
  • Isabelle Lasserre
Brief Analysis
When the UAE Says “No” to Israeli Annexation, What Does It Mean?
Washington should urgently heed Abu Dhabi’s warning—not only because it comes from such a close U.S.-Israeli partner, but also because of the major regional fallout it heralds if unilateral annexations proceed in the West Bank.
Sep 9, 2025
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  • Ghaith al-Omari
  • Neomi Neumann
Photo of a Houthi funeral in Yemen following an Israeli strike that killed multiple government officials.
Brief Analysis
Israel and the Houthis Are Entering a Dangerous Escalation Cycle
Despite their confident saber rattling, both sides face real constraints that could impede their operational goals, and their actions increase the risks to maritime security, energy exports, and broader regional stability.
Sep 5, 2025
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  • April Longley Alley
Articles & Testimony
A Charade in Academic Garb
Genocide scholars lent their reputation to an indictment of Israel that was less a serious inquiry than a parade of previously debunked claims and disgraced “experts.”
Sep 2, 2025
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  • Robert Satloff
An IDF display of weapons seized from a Hezbollah cache in southern Lebanon - source: Reuters
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Articles & Testimony
Disarming Hezbollah: Much Talk, Little Action
President Aoun has promised Washington that he will begin confiscating Hezbollah’s weapons soon, but he is delivering a different message to the group and its political allies.
August 2025
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  • Ehud Yaari
LAF soldiers study a map - source: Lebanese Armed Forces
Brief Analysis
Lebanon’s Moment of Truth
The government’s unprecedented decision to disarm Hezbollah is brave, but as U.S. officials have repeatedly discovered, continual pressure will be needed to ensure that Lebanon and Israel actually implement their obligations under the new plan.
Aug 27, 2025
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  • David Schenker
Iranian officials display what they claim to be counterfeit identification documents seized from accused spies - source: Reuters
Articles & Testimony
Spy Versus Spy: Iran’s Playbook for Espionage in Israel
Tehran’s recruitment of Israelis for military surveillance, sabotage, assassination plots, and other operations is on the rise, showing how the shadow war between the two adversaries continues to evolve even after their recent hot war.
Aug 26, 2025
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  • Sarah Boches
  • Matthew Levitt
UN peacekeepers affiliated with UNIFIL are pictured along the Israel-Lebanon border - source: Reuters
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Brief Analysis
The Future of UNIFIL and Hezbollah Disarmament
Former Israeli and Lebanese military officials discuss whether the UN force can play any effective role in the urgent tasks of expanding Beirut’s sovereignty and disarming Hezbollah.
Aug 18, 2025
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  • Khalil Helou
  • Sarit Zehavi
  • Assaf Orion
Articles & Testimony
Make Hamas Face a Choice
Netanyahu’s call to take over Gaza City and separate civilians from Hamas seems like a nonstarter in practical terms, but Israel could play on the group’s fear of being put back in charge of a shattered territory.
August 2025
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  • Ehud Yaari
Articles & Testimony
The Twisted Logic Behind Recognition of Palestinian Statehood
France, Britain, and Canada have been paving (separate) roads to nowhere with their recent statehood push, underscoring the profound gap between declaring a historic policy objective and defining a strategy to actually achieve it—ironically, the same gap Israel has fallen into since October 7.
Aug 14, 2025
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  • Robert Satloff
Brief Analysis
How “Day After” Governance of Gaza Can Draw from Existing Plans
NGOs and foreign officials have already outlined many of the most crucial transitional governance and security issues that will arise during and after Israel’s eventual withdrawal—and all of them will require some degree of oversight and leadership from the Trump administration.
Aug 12, 2025
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  • James Jeffrey
Israeli and UAE flags flying together in Abu Dhabi - source: Reuters
Brief Analysis
Israel-UAE Defense Cooperation Grows Under the Abraham Accords
Negotiations between Elbit Systems and EDGE Group over the Hermes 900 UAV system exemplify how the accords are ushering in a new era of defense-industrial cooperation.
Aug 5, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Dent
Traffic passes the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the West Bank
Brief Analysis
Israel’s West Bank “Pincer” Is Squeezing the Palestinians
Israel’s conduct toward the West Bank—which has lately operated top-down and bottom-up like a pincer—could wind up triggering wider outbreaks of violence, preventing expansion of the Abraham Accords, and undermining Jerusalem's traditional bases of support internationally.
Jul 25, 2025
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  • Neomi Neumann
Photo of Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat at Camp David, July 2000.
Articles & Testimony
Israel Has Its Best Chance for Peace in 25 Years
After seeing President Clinton’s chance at a deal slip away, America’s former top peace envoy explains how Trump has a wide—but brief—window to press Arab and Israeli leaders on resolving the Gaza conflict and other regional issues.
Jul 17, 2025
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  • Dennis Ross
Photo showing Gaza residents spinning sparklers at the start of Ramadan, March 2025.
Brief Analysis
Israel’s “Tribal” Approach in Gaza: A Short-Term Response to a Long-Term Challenge
Tribal militias in Gaza can offer limited tactical help if they are carefully monitored and managed, but relying on them would just be another way of delaying the more important work of formulating postwar political arrangements.
Jul 15, 2025
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  • Neomi Neumann
Syrian Druze women look across the Golan border into Israel - source: Reuters
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Brief Analysis
Pursuing Israel-Syria Detente Post-Assad
A panel of American, Israeli, and Syrian experts discuss the prospects of cooperation and normalization between the two longtime belligerents, including the U.S. role in achieving such a deal.
Jul 14, 2025
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  • Rime Allaf
  • Ehud Yaari
  • Aaron Y. Zelin
  • Andrew J. Tabler

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