Israel

It’s one thing to have a political fight over foreign policy. It’s quite another to break one of the most important principles in how foreign policy is made.

“Half of all racist attacks in France take Jews as their target, even though they number less than 1% of the population.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government fell apart under the weight of its own contradictions.

Despite being slammed as anti-Israel during his confirmation hearings, Chuck Hagel has been Israel’s best friend in the Obama administration. Here’s why.

East Jerusalem might seem calm, but a clear look at the situation on the ground shows that the city is a powder keg. Here’s why.

Four people, including three Americans, were killed in a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday morning.

It turns out the most salient point of the American Jewish approach to politics isn’t pro-Israel sentiment or greater concerns about terrorism. It’s that they’re highly partisan Democrats.

What Susan Rice snarking Israel’s ambassador says about the state of US-Israel relations

Months of violence in Jerusalem have gotten so bad that some experts are warning of a third Intifada. Here’s what’s going on, why it’s gotten tenser recently, and what could happen next.

There might be some strategic logic behind calling a foreign leader “chickenshit.” Maybe.

“The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” one senior US official said. But why?

“We can conclude that under Obama, the US has deteriorated to the cultural and essential level of a third world country,” says MK Moshe Feiglin.

The US gives about three billion dollars in aid to Israel every year. Why doesn’t that seem to buy any leverage?

These five common consumer products have demonstrated connections to serious human rights abuses. That illustrates a major point of tension between modern capitalism and human rights.

Helping Middle Eastern Christians avoid genocide sounds like an incredibly uncontroversial subject for a conference. Here’s how Ted Cruz and pro-Israel conservative writers turned it into one.

Hamas lost the Gaza war. But Israel and the Palestinian Authority probably won’t do what they need to do to make Hamas’ losses permanent.

The Israeli leader is arguing, wrongly, that the two groups are the same.

A fascinating new story in the Wall Street Journal shows how fall US-Israel relations have fallen.

A major study of tweets on Israel-Palestine was based on a typo. The corrected results confirm that pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian people barely talk to each other.

The discussion around the Israel-Gaza conflict often turns on issues of international law. This is a basic guide to those laws, what they tell us, and what they don’t.

Both sides are deeply negligent in avoiding Palestinian civilian deaths, but in different ways.

Here’s what three years of surveys on the world’s opinion of Israel found.

Ever wondered why the United States is such a strong supporter of Israel? Here’s your answer.

Yes, the Israeli viewpoint of the conflict is typically given great credence, but that may be changing.

A short explanation of how the worst round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting in five years began.

Here’s what you need to know to understand the ongoing violence.

Yes, one of the questions is “Why are Israelis and Palestinians fighting?”