Was Israel wrong to trust Qatar?
Doha hosts Hamas as part of a cynical geopolitical game.
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The deadly logic of existential war
Warnings that the escalating Israel-Hamas conflict could become a genocide should be heeded.
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The Israel-Hamas war threatens more energy price pain
The conflict has had a similar – but less pronounced – effect on oil and gas markets as Russia’s invasion.
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Will Israel launch a ground invasion?
Urban warfare is hard and it’s unclear what Israeli forces would be able to achieve.
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Kenneth Roth: we should be conservative about accusations of genocide
The former head of Human Rights Watch on Israel and Hamas, the hospital blast and war crimes.
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Misinformation in the Israel-Hamas war is a serious problem
On social media, users have two choices: to log off and look away, or stay and witness horrors and lies…
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Anatomy of a disaster
How a rush to report on the hospital blast in Gaza led Joe Biden’s Middle East summit to collapse within…
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Who is to blame?
It is a moral catastrophe that people refuse to consider the circumstances of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The Israel-Hamas war has left Britain divided
Politicians in the UK are nervous to speak about the conflict – but if ever there was a time for…
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Letter from Israel: “Bodies are piling up on three fronts”
I was among the first journalists allowed into Kfar Azza, one of the kibbutz communities that suffered the worst massacres.
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Letter from Gaza: “What we have witnessed has never been seen before”
I have seen children writing their names on the palms of their hands. When they die, they want people to…
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PMQs today: Keir Starmer reaches a careful balance on Israel
The Labour leader is seeking to draw attention to the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Gaza without reopening old divides.
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Inside Israel’s intelligence fiasco
Security failures allowed Hamas to launch its catastrophic attack on 7 October. Can the Israeli leadership overcome its fatal complacency?
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The Middle East on the brink
This is a perilous moment for the world. Western leaders must be clear-eyed about the potential scale of this conflict.
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War in Israel and Palestine: could it spread?
A special episode of the New Statesman podcast
Sinn Féin sees false equivalence in Palestine
Northern Ireland is nothing like Gaza. If the party wins power it will have to learn that.
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Ahron Bregman: “The question is whether Israel actually wants to topple Hamas”
The Middle East security scholar on the imminent ground invasion of Gaza.
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This is no time for politics, says Israeli hostages’ daughter
Sharone Lifschitz’s parents are believed to have been abducted by Hamas. She wants them saved.
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The revenge of history
How Israel forgot the lessons of the Yom Kippur War.
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Israel, Gaza and a war without limit
The response to Hamas will devastate the Strip, upend the balance of power in the Middle East and define the…
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