List of Israel articles
![Soldiers with the Israel Defense Forces stand near a military vehicle on March 4, 2024 in southern Israel near the border with Gaza.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2050680103.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
A Cease-Fire in Gaza Wouldn’t End Israel’s Wars
The region’s most bitter conflicts aren’t all linked to one another.
![U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a meeting in Washington on July 25.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/netanyahu-harris-2-GettyImages-2162820754.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
If Harris Believes in International Law, She Needs to Show It
Talking about a “rules-based order” won’t overcome Washington’s hypocrisy problem.
![Pro-Palestinian supporter hold a flag in the foreground while Jewish students in the background hold sings reading "Bring them home now" and "Let us grieve." Police are shown to the side of the group.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/gaza-columbia-college-protest-palestine-israel-2024-09-03T154140Z_826154584_RC23T9AGSEXP_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-USA-PROTESTS-COLUMBIA.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
IR Faculty Weigh In on Campus Protests
A new poll shows that scholars disapprove of Israeli action in Gaza, but they are divided over university divestment and student activism.
![U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House on July 25, 2024 in Washington, DC.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2162794397.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The White House’s Puzzling Optimism Over Prospects for Gaza Cease-Fire Deal
The Biden administration has been saying for months that the Gaza cease-fire deal is almost done.
![Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks to the press as he joins Jewish nationalists, including far-right activists, rallying at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2155592084.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
How Did a Minority of Israelis Come to Wield So Much Power?
Just 1 in 10 voters support the far right, which shapes key policies.
![A woman at a rally wipes at her eyes behind a pair of sunglasses while holding up a poster at a rally. The poster reads "Bring Hersh home," Hersh being the name of her son.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2168213039.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
A Way Forward in the Israeli Hostage Crisis
Netanyahu is an obstacle, but Biden has an alternative.
![A UNRWA employee provides polio vaccine and rotavirus vaccines for children in a clinic in Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Sept. 9, 2020.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/gaza-polio-2.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Gaza’s Polio Outbreak Won’t Spare Israelis
The country’s unvaccinated ultra-Orthodox population is at risk of contracting the disease, unless Netanyahu agrees to a prolonged cease-fire to allow mass vaccination.
![Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in Washington on July 25, 2024.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2163690095-1.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
America Is More Desperate for a Cease-Fire Than Israel and Hamas
How the U.S. election calendar is affecting the Middle East peace talks.
![Palestinians ride past buildings leveled in previous Israeli military bombardments in northern Gaza on July 29.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2163792148-e1724780658121.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Salam Fayyad on the ‘Day After’ in Gaza
The former Palestinian Authority prime minister has a plan he thinks could lead to peace—but it’s a political nonstarter.
![U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to speak and accept the Democratic presidential nomination during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, on Aug. 22.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Harris-DNC-GettyImages-2167983325.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
What Harris’s DNC Speech Reveals About Her Foreign Policy
An FP Live discussion with Anne-Marie Slaughter and Matt Duss.
![Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather outside of the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, on Aug. 11.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/dearborn-palestine-protest-harris-GettyImages-2165899627.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Democrats’ Gaza Policy Is Repelling Arab American Voters
The Uncommitted Movement is putting pressure on Kamala Harris in key swing states, including Michigan.
![A man rides his moped past a billboard bearing portraits of slain leaders, Ismail Haniyeh of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Iranian Quds Force chief Qasem Soleimani, and Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr on the main road near the Beirut International Airport on August 3, 2024.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2164603926.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Can Israel Really Deter Hezbollah?
Even in far-reaching scenarios, Lebanon won’t easily turn on Shia militia.
![Ukrainian servicemen operate an armored military vehicle in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia, on Aug. 12.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ukraine-kursk-russia-incursion-GettyImages-2165990037.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Will Ukraine’s Kursk Offensive Turn the Tide?
Kyiv’s risky incursion could be game-changing—or allow Russia to entrench its gains in Donetsk.
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a state memorial ceremony for his late predecessor Golda Meir at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on November 18, 2018.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-1063171222.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Dangerous Decline in Israeli Strategy
For decades, the Zionist project has been getting worse at defending itself.
![Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks alongside U.S. President Joe Biden during a Ukraine Compact initiative on the sidelines of the NATO Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on July 11.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2161013895.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Washington Is Out of Sync With Its Wartime Allies
The White House has been kept out of the loop on several major wartime decisions by Israel and Ukraine.