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Graeme Wood

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What Will Netanyahu Do Now?

Iran has handed him an opportunity. Can he find a way to blow it? On April 1, Israel killed Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior official of the Islamic...

14.04.2024 10

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Israeli Protesters Have Chosen Their Villain

They believe they cannot change Hamas, but they might be able to change their own government. This weekend, Israel withdrew all but one of its...

10.04.2024 10

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The Long, Twisted History of Russia and ISIS

The fault lines in Russian society have foretold yesterday’s atrocity for literally centuries. A decade ago, when foreign fighters were flowing into...

23.03.2024 10

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Buying Satellite Imagery of Ukraine Is Dangerously Easy

A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies. Earlier this...

18.03.2024 10

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Don’t Glorify Self-Immolation

Determination and sincerity are not the missing ingredients in the Israel-Gaza war. In 1963, the monk Thich Quang Duc soaked himself in gasoline and...

28.02.2024 10

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What Tucker Carlson Saw in Moscow

He never quite says what precisely he thinks Russia gets right. Tucker Carlson went to Moscow last week and had an absolute blast. He rode the subway...

16.02.2024 5

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The Presidency Is Not a Math Test

Neither of the old men running on a major ticket shows any sign of catastrophic senescence. At the height of the Iran-Contra affair in 1986, Saturday...

12.02.2024 10

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Jamaal Bowman’s Very Bad Poetry

The rep’s subpar, conspiracy-peddling poetry is a vulnerable moment that we can all learn from. The critic Harold Bloom once declared that former...

31.01.2024 3

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The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Doctrine

Something is broken in the current policy of brinksmanship with Iran, and something unusual might be needed to restore a status quo. Yesterday, a...

29.01.2024 9

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Israel's Bitter Bind

Arguments made before the International Court of Justice earlier this month were infuriating, no matter whose side one took. Waiting to obtain justice...

27.01.2024 10

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Pressuring Israel Works

The U.S. provided a detailed list of steps, symbolic and concrete, that would prevent the West Bank from becoming another front in the war. After the...

11.01.2024 3

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The Two Types of Harvard President

Claudine Gay’s defenders erred in trying to suggest that she was a “scholar’s scholar.” In The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam...

03.01.2024 3

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Hamas Doesn’t Want a Cease-Fire

It wants the war to expand. Recently, I drove along Israel’s northern border, west to east. To my American sensibility, it is the best road trip in...

02.01.2024 4

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Israel's Two Other Fronts

Hamas wants the war to expand. That wish may be granted. Recently, I drove along Israel’s northern border, west to east. To my American sensibility,...

02.01.2024 3

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Is Hamas a Religious Organization?

Religion is a sticky and intractable kind of dogma, and if the war is religious, the prospects for negotiated resolution are poor. Recently the Hamas...

12.12.2023 10

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Harvard’s President Should Resign

And so should everyone else. Maresuke Nogi was always his own toughest critic. Emperor Meiji trusted him and appointed him to high military posts in...

11.12.2023 10

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Is the Israel-Hamas Hostage Deal Worthwhile?

Israel is collectivizing its own sin, the sin of rewarding hostage-taking. Early this morning, Hamas and Israel agreed to a hostage deal: 30 children...

22.11.2023 4

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Netanyahu’s Path to Political Survival

The problem, in short, is that there might be no one who stands ready to replace Israel’s deeply unpopular prime minister. After Hamas’s October 7...

16.11.2023 3

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Who Should Run Gaza?

Indirect rule by the Palestinian Authority is a moonshot worth considering. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is now the highest-ranking American...

10.11.2023 4

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"There Will Probably Be a Cease-Fire. And Then They Will Just Be Names”

Israeli-hostage families fear abandonment. Earlier this week, while walking through central Jerusalem, I heard a chant in the distance. War has driven...

04.11.2023 10

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The Theory of Hamas’s Catastrophic Success

Both Hamas and Israel are making up strategies as they go. Three days after Hamas’s attack on Israel, I called the operation a “catastrophic...

03.11.2023 10

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Hamas vs. ISIS

They are not the same—and their differences are likely to matter as this war proceeds. Two weeks ago, Hamas declared a “Day of Rage”—an...

27.10.2023 7

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“You Started a War, You’ll Get a Nakba”

Since the Hamas attack, settler violence against Palestinians has intensified in the West Bank. Last week, on a dusty road in the West Bank, I...

25.10.2023 30

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Why Israeli Officials Screened Footage of the Hamas Attack

“I killed 10 Jews with my own hands.” This afternoon, at a military base north of Tel Aviv, the Israel Defense Forces held a grisly matinee...

23.10.2023 3

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Hamas’s Hostage-Taking Handbook Says to ‘Kill the Difficult Ones’ and Use Hostages as ‘Human Shields’

The document, which I obtained from an Israeli official, also suggests that Hamas did not plan to take hostages back to Gaza. A hostage-taking manual...

19.10.2023 2

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What Is Israel Trying to Accomplish?

Gazans know that if they leave, they will have to rely on the goodwill of Israel to let them back in and not use this moment to remake the region’s...

17.10.2023 30

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Why Did Hamas Choose Now to Attack Israel?

A day that started under control, with a coordinated surprise attack by literally thousands of armed men, does not appear to have ended that way. A...

12.10.2023 2

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What Could Come Next in the Middle East

Hamas’s attacks could be a daring single-day raid, or the start of a regional war of a scale not seen since 1973. War is a perpetual concern in...

07.10.2023 3

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The Iliad We’ve Lost

Emily Wilson’s new translation is inviting to modern readers, but doesn’t capture the barbaric world of the original. Early in Norman Mailer’s ...

02.10.2023 10

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Iran’s Influence Operation Pays Off

The emails look bad When news comes out that someone has suffered an email breach, my first instinct is to pity them and practice extreme charity. I...

28.09.2023 2

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Platform Your Enemies

The more odious the geopolitical figure, the more urgent the invitation. “Never touch your idols,” Flaubert wrote in Madame Bovary, “for the...

22.09.2023 10

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