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Essays
January 2023
Restraint as a US Foreign Policy Strategy and the Future of the US–Israel Relationship:
An Exchange of Views
Steve,
Our friendship goes back to graduate school days at Princeton and continued throughout our careers in US...
Essays
January 2023
Security Challenges Facing the New Israeli Government
The State of Israel is not required by law to adopt a national security strategy. But the need for such a document has been...
Asia
January 2023
Biden’s Measured Response to China’s Activism in the Middle East
The Biden administration does not view US–China competition in the Middle East as a zero-sum prize for one side to enjoy at...
Columns
January 2023
An Israeli Perspective on Qatar’s World Cup
Few events in history have been watched live by more people around the world than the final match of the World Cup soccer...
A Profile in Policy
January 2023
Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich: Israel’s Power Couple
General Aviv Kochavi, the outgoing chief of the general staff, probably never thought that he would need to call the...
Columns
December 2022
A Revisionist View of the Intelligence Failure of the Yom Kippur War
As Israel heads into the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War of 1973, one issue from that momentous war is still debated...
Essays
December 2022
The November Election Results and Israel’s Next Government
The Knesset elections in November ended in a virtual tie between the left and right in terms of votes cast. But Netanyahu...
Columns
December 2022
The 2022 Congressional Elections: The Red Wave that Wasn’t
The 2022 Congressional elections surprised virtually everyone. Until late September, the Republicans expected to take the...
Columns
December 2022
Why Has Netanyahu’s Coalition-Making Been so Difficult?
A magical moment is recalled in a well known Israeli song (sung by Yehudit Ravitz in 1979): “You took my hand in yours and...
Print Issues
December 2022
The Centrality of the United States to Global Affairs
Amid the ongoing war in Ukraine and new tensions in the Middle East, observers often look to how the United States responds...
