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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
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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
UN peacekeepers affiliated with UNIFIL are pictured along the Israel-Lebanon border - source: Reuters
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The Future of UNIFIL and Hezbollah Disarmament
Watch an expert conversation with two panels featuring retired senior military leaders from Israel and Lebanon examining the role of UNIFIL in expanding Lebanese state sovereignty and fulfilling Lebanon's pledge to disarm Hezbollah.
Aug 14, 2025
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  • Khalil Helou
  • Assaf Orion
  • Sarit Zehavi
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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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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Brief Analysis
Israeli Strike Kills Head of Security for Iraqi Militia KSS
Haider al-Musawi may have been (unsuccessfully) securing the move of a senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative through Iraq into Iran.
Jul 9, 2025
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  • Michael Knights
  • Hamdi Malik
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Turkish president Erdogan - Source: Reuters
Brief Analysis
How Turkey Views the Iran-Israel Confrontation
Despite long opposing Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, Ankara has a strong national security interest in avoiding moves that result in either direct Turkish hostilities with Iran or the collapse of the Islamic Republic.
Jul 8, 2025
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  • Soner Cagaptay
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyaho speaks at an annual memorial for David Ben-Gurion in 2018 - source: Reuters
Articles & Testimony
Netanyahu’s Legacy Won’t Be Made on the Battlefield Alone
The prime minister has shown historic military resolve, but political courage must come next.
Jul 6, 2025
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  • Dennis Ross
Brief Analysis
An Opportunity Not to Be Missed: Agenda for the Trump-Netanyahu Meeting
The two leaders should focus on articulating a vision for a diplomatic agreement with Iran, sketching a common roadmap on Gaza, setting the stage for further Arab-Israeli normalization, and updating the parameters of bilateral strategic cooperation for a new regional reality.
Jul 3, 2025
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  • Dana Stroul
  • Robert Satloff
Two Iranian women hug each other while a country's flag and a portrait of an Iran-Israel war victim are projected on the Azadi (Freedom) Monument in western Tehran, Iran, on June 25, 2025 - source: Reuters
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Iran on Day 13: Gauging Regime Choices and Public Attitudes After the War
Two human rights experts discuss the chances that Iran’s domestic crackdown will escalate under the ceasefire, while a former CIA manager explains why the clock is rapidly ticking away on key elements needed to effectively monitor the damaged nuclear program.
Jul 3, 2025
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  • Holly Dagres
  • Roya Boroumand
  • Norman Roule
Brief Analysis
Accelerating Israeli-Palestinian Diplomacy After the Iran War
Although international frustrations over the Gaza war were briefly placed on the back burner during the Iran crisis, they are boiling over once again and may spoil Washington’s postwar plans if left untended.
Jul 2, 2025
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  • Ghaith al-Omari
Nuclear centrifuges in Iran
Articles & Testimony
Did the Attacks on Iran Succeed?
Israel and the United States bought themselves time on the nuclear issue, but the decision to take the military path raises a host of other risks and questions.
Jun 26, 2025
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  • Richard Nephew
US and Israeli military planes participate in the 2023 Juniper Oak joint exercise - source: IDF
Articles & Testimony
Why War? Why Now? Assessing Iranian Intentions and Capabilities
Israeli and American intelligence reached different conclusions while looking at the same information, so understanding what Jerusalem and Tehran were thinking before the war is crucial to forecasting what could come next.
Jun 26, 2025
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  • Matthew Levitt
A USAF B-2 Spirit bomber refuels in flight - source: Department of Defense
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U.S. Attacks Iranian Nuclear Sites: Implications for Israel, the Middle East, and U.S. Policy
Two veteran U.S. officials join a former Israeli ambassador to discuss the effects and future consequences of the Trump administration’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear program.
Jun 25, 2025
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  • Dana Stroul
  • Michael Herzog
  • Dennis Ross
  • Robert Satloff
Brief Analysis
How the Iran-Israel Conflict Is Affecting Gulf Energy and Maritime Security
For regional countries seeking to transform their economies and partner with the United States in areas including AI, the current war poses risks that could reverberate in the global economy.
Jun 23, 2025
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  • Noam Raydan
A highway bridge in Tehran displays images of nuclear scientists killed during Israeli strikes against Iran in June 2025 - source: Reuters
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The Bigger Picture in the Iran-Israel Conflict: Russia, Missiles, Militias, and More
Four experts assess how outside players might respond to the showdown, and whether Tehran will switch up its calculus on procurement, attack tactics, and other military matters as the fight goes on.
Jun 23, 2025
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  • Anna Borshchevskaya
  • Michael Knights
  • Farzin Nadimi
  • Assaf Orion

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