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Illustration by James Hosking. Sources: Erica Lansner / … Why the Most Educated People in America Fall for Anti-Semitic Lies
At Harvard and elsewhere, an old falsehood is capturing new minds.
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Gali Tibbon / AFP / Getty Why the Most Hated Man in Israel Might Stay in Power
Benjamin Netanyahu has a path to political survival.
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William Keo / Magnum Hamas Must Go
The terror group has proved again and again that it will sabotage any efforts to forge a lasting peace.
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Justin Tallis / AFP; Richard Baker / In … London’s Day of Creeping Extremism
On a day dedicated to peace, the British capital is consumed by competing symbols.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. ‘If We Go on Living Like This, Israel Is Not Going to Find Peace’
In the short term, indirect rule of Gaza by the Palestinian Authority is worth considering.
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Elliott Franks / eyevine / Redux The Day After Netanyahu
Israel has long succeeded in spite of its leaders, not because of them.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Why Israeli Security-Service Agents Wanted to Talk With Charlottesville’s Mayor
Even a year ago, they worried that extremist politics could undermine their work.
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Chris McGrath / Getty When Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic
The most consequential form of anti-Zionism today is the one that deploys guns and rockets.
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Patrick Zachmann / Magnum All My Life, I’ve Watched Violence Fail the Palestinian Cause
After Hamas’s attack, I lost hope. Then I started hearing from Israelis and Palestinians.
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Micha Bar-Am / Magnum The Lessons Israel Should Have Learned in Lebanon
If Israel is going to have any strategic success against Hamas, it needs to do three things differently from conflicts past.
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Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times / Getty ‘How Much Can This Child Take?’
After Hamas’s attack, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg wait for news of their son.
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Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP / Getty Even the Oppressed Have Obligations
Not every act of resistance is justified.
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Avishag Shaar-Yashuv / The New York Times / … The Theory of Hamas’s Catastrophic Success
Both Hamas and Israel are making up strategies as they go.
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Mohammed Salem / Reuters The Man Working to Keep the Water On in Gaza
How one engineer in Gaza is trying to protect his family and his community at a time when water is running out
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Jack Guez / … Think Strategy, Not Tactics
If we wish to understand the war’s likely course, we must ask how both sides conceive their objectives and the broadest ways in which they intend to use force to achieve them.
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Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times / Getty The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False
It does not accurately describe either the foundation of Israel or the tragedy of the Palestinians.
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Bettmann / Getty The Israel-War Email That College Presidents Should’ve Sent
Plus: When should people try to better the world through their job?
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Michal Ronnen Safdie Stop Doomscrolling About Israel and Palestine—Read These Books Instead
The Atlantic’s books editor prescribes these titles as antidotes to the quick and dirty ways people are communicating on social media.
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Leon Neal / Getty ‘The Whole Country Has PTSD’
A conversation with the Israeli short-story writer Etgar Keret about grieving, and whether writing can ease the pain
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Ben Kothe / The Atlantic Why Israel Should Obey Geneva Even When Its Enemies Do Not
It has more to gain from sticking to the international conventions that govern the lawful conduct of war than it does from seeking reckless vengeance against Hamas.
