Israel

Time to retire ‘Arab-Israeli conflict’?

A new name should reflect how the hostilities have grown more complex and spread beyond the region's boundaries.

It’s increasingly difficult to see how Qatar can broker a Gaza breakthrough

Doha's mediation efforts have been undermined by Israel's recent assassination of Hamas' longtime political chief.

Send private-security contractors into Gaza? That’s a terrible idea

Here are some basic questions to ask before this not-even-half-baked notion becomes a policy failure.

As Hamas war drags on, Israeli democracy weakens

Israel is not alone; a recent report finds that the global state of democracy has been declining for the past six years.