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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Francois Pages / … Egypt’s Gaza Problem
Navigating this crisis requires a deft touch that Sisi has never had.
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Sergey Ponomarev / The New York Times / … What’s Next in Gaza
A ground invasion seems all but certain—but then what?
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Ali Hashisho / Xinhua / Getty Hezbollah Watches and Waits
To understand the lull in Lebanon, look to Iran.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Ahmed Zakot / … Beware the Language That Erases Reality
An open letter signed by famous writers decrying Israel’s response to the Hamas attack shows a startling moral obtuseness.
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Ahmed Zakot / SOPA / LightRocket / Getty Four Misconceptions About the War in Gaza
Disregard pundits searching for a deeper geopolitical meaning to this war.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Inside Biden’s ‘Hug Bibi’ Strategy
The president believes the best way to shape Israeli strategy is to start with reassurance, and then use the trust he’s built.
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Jerome Sessini / Magnum for The Atlantic 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 demography.
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Adel Hana / AP What Hamas Wants
The straightforward explanation that the experts missed
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Mohammed Talatene / picture-alliance / AP Photos: Evacuation of Gaza City
Scenes from northern Gaza, where Israel has ordered more than 1 million residents to leave
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Jeenah Moon / Reuters Students for Pogroms in Israel
By excusing murder and kidnapping, activist groups have already changed campus politics in America.
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Majdi Fathi / NurPhoto / Getty Inside Gaza’s Last Catholic Parish
My conversation with a friend sheltering in Gaza
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Lev Radin / Pacific Press / Getty The Progressives Who Flunked the Hamas Test
The attack refutes the flawed assumption that all social-justice causes fit neatly together.
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Ilia Yefimovich / Picture Alliance / Getty Israel Is Walking Into a Trap
Storming into Gaza will fulfill Hamas’s wish.
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Popperfoto / Getty The Lessons Israel Failed to Learn From the Yom Kippur War
Gathering the right intelligence isn’t always enough.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Reuters. Israel Must Not React Stupidly
If this is Israel’s 9/11, it can learn from America’s mistakes.
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Sergey Ponomarev / The New York Times / … The Left Abandoned Me
After the brutal violence committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians, I looked around for my friends on the left and felt alone.
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Ting Shen / Bloomberg / Getty The Israeli Crisis Is Testing Biden’s Core Foreign-Policy Claim
The initial reactions of Biden and Trump to the attack have produced exactly the kind of personal contrast that Biden supporters want to project.
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Irene Suosalo for The Atlantic This War Shows Just How Broken Social Media Has Become
The global town square is in ruins.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Against Barbarism
We are in the fight of our lives.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty; iStock. Should You Delete Your Kid’s TikTok This Week?
Hostage videos could present a horrific new dilemma for parents.
