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Gaza Can Be Rebuilt While Solving the Palestinian “Refugee” Problem
Gazans can’t simultaneously be refugees and have ineradicable ties to the land where they now live.
Robert Satloff
Robert Satloff is the Segal executive director at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and its Howard P. Berkowitz chair in U.S. Middle East Policy.
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Why Israel Should Keep Open the Possibility of Palestinian Statehood
By Robert Satloff“Clever” is an appropriate term for the counterintuitive essay titled “To Save Itself from International Isolation, Israel Must Hold On to the West Bank.” An argument that rejects solutions to the Isr...
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Israeli Victories against Iran Can Pave the Way to Peace
What Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu can achieve.
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How, and Why, the U.S. Should Put UNRWA Out of Business
Only threats can get the United Nations to replace this fatally corrupt institution.
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How Escalation Could Restore Calm on the Israel-Lebanon Border
And allow Israelis to return to their homes in the north.
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The Imbalance at the Heart of the U.S. Ceasefire Proposal
The U.S. will restrain Israel. But who will restrain Hamas?
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America Has Failed to Pressure Hamas, and to Free Its Citizens Being Held Hostage
“As an American, I am ashamed.”
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There’s No Such Thing as a Ramadan Truce
“The month of jihad and victories.”
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Arab Leaders Support Israel, Even If They Don’t Want to Say So in Public
They are more concerned about domestic pressure than about the Palestinians.
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When Defaming Israel, the “Washington Post” Doesn’t Bother Confirming the Facts
The anatomy of a libel.
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Hamas’s Surrender Must Be Israel’s Goal
It will only happen when its leadership believes it faces imminent annihilation.
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How the Washington Post Turned a Story about Israel Rescuing Palestinian Children into One about Israeli Cruelty
A masterclass in journalistic manipulation.
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Israel’s Gaza Campaign and the Danger of Sloppy Comparisons
The only thing worse than the current fighting is fighting that ends with Hamas still in power.
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Beware of False Historical Comparisons
Evacuation by Hamas to some faraway capital would be a dramatic step backward.
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How America Can Stand with Israel in Its Hour of Need
Help it to win as quickly as possible.
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The White House Is Wrong to Wade into Israel’s Domestic Political Turmoil
Instead, it should affirm the strength and constancy of American support for Israel.
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An Anti-Israel Broadside Makes Clear That Its Authors Don’t Sympathize with Palestinians So Much as They Object to Jews
There is no “one-state reality.”
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Why Normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia Is Possible—and What’s Slowing It Down
A question of when, not if.
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The One Week of World War II That Gave Rise to the Modern Middle East
Operation Torch, the Nazi invasion of Tunisia, and the British victory at El Alamein.
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Saudi Arabia Is Changing Fast. What Will That Mean for the U.S. and the Region?
Peace with Israel isn’t around the corner, but signs of creeping normalization are everywhere.
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Understanding the Brief Moment When the Soviet Bloc Sided with Israel, and the U.S. Government against It
The first Western diplomat to equate Zionism with racism.
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Don’t Let Iran Go Nuclear
The U.S. must end its stunning passivity.
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The Moral Case for Restoring U.S.-Saudi Relations
Ensure that the Saudi Arabia of tomorrow is definitively and irretrievably different than the Saudi Arabia of the past.
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The U.S. Is Poised to Make a Nuclear Deal with Iran That Expires in Twenty Months
How three presidents failed to do the possible.
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Unprecedented Holocaust Commemorations in Cairo and Abu Dhabi
Remembering Arabs who rescued Jews from the Nazis.
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How the U.S. Can Get Smart about Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East
Without trying to revolutionize society, pursue rights first, and democracy second.
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A Firm Response at Sea Will Help, Not Hinder, Nuclear Negotiations with Iran
American inaction only makes the ayatollahs more daring.
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In the Guise of a Tribute to Dead Children, the “New York Times” Offers a Mixture of Half-Truths, Distortions, and Propaganda
No number of corrections can fix it.
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The Walls of Arab Holocaust Denial Are Finally Crumbling
A virtuous cycle of philo-Semitism.
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The Jordanian Monarch Isn’t Going Anywhere, but Neither Are the Problems Underlying the Recent “Coup”
Amman shouldn’t blame Israel for its recent troubles.