Israel
Vox’s coverage of Israel, from the Israel-Palestine conflict to Israel’s elections to its relationship with the US and more. You can find more coverage of the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel here or by following Vox’s storystream of the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.
One of Trump’s longtime allies makes the case against the Iran war.
The MAGA civil war over the Iran war is opening up new and old religious and political feuds.
The rise and fall of the “axis of resistance.”
What we know about the civilian death toll in the Middle East, briefly explained.
And five other questions about the latest conflict in the Middle East, answered.
What does “America First” even mean anymore?
The “nationalist international” binding Israel and India.
A landmark shift — and it’s not just Democrats
Or they could save it.
Israel’s election, scheduled for next October, could decide whether Gaza sees a real and durable peace.
Trump played a part — but there are also broader reasons why it happened now.
People are joyful — but Hamas is asserting its power.
Trump-style diplomacy made the deal work, and could undo it.
It’s worth celebrating. But there’s reason to fear what it portends.
And five other questions about the deal, answered.
The Israeli prime minister’s unlikely political survival — and the devastating toll of two years of war.
5 questions about Trump’s Gaza plan.
The latest on Trump’s Gaza peace plan, briefly explained.
The president’s relationships with Netanyahu and Putin have something in common.
The war in Gaza has changed the global debate on the two-state solution. But is it too late?
The message behind the unprecedented attack on the soil of a US ally.
The global humanitarian system was not set up for a crisis like this one.
There’s a long history of using starvation as a weapon of war. But this is different.
An Israeli pollster explains what people there actually think about the events shocking the world’s conscience.
Through starving Gaza, and potentially reocuppying it, Netanyahu has brutalized Palestinians and harmed his own country’s interests.
The Ivy League agreements with Trump are a danger to all of higher ed.
Democratic voters sympathize much more with Palestinians than Israelis, but you wouldn’t know that from looking at the party establishment.
Who is to blame for the failure to feed Gazans?
A veteran aid worker’s warning on what happens next in Gaza.
Ceasefire negotiations falter as Gaza totters on the brink of famine.
Fighting in Syria exposes a US-Israel rift.
“Mowing the grass” didn’t stop October 7. Now it’s going global.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is back in Washington for a third visit.
Trump attacked Iran. What he did next was even more revealing.
Every president wants to extricate America from the region’s conflicts. None of them do.
Donald Trump brings America into Israel’s war on Iran.
America may be about to get involved in another regime change war in the Middle East.
It’s impossible to know how this war will end. But here’s how to make sense of it.
Trump seems to be trying to associate himself with the attacks after the fact.