We reach for the term when we want to condemn the worst crimes, but the U.N.’s Genocide Convention excuses more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns.

Conflict is looming between lawmakers who believe financial support to Israel should be conditioned to humanitarian aid in Gaza and those who don’t.

The news networks have been allowed to tag along with the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza—under certain conditions.

A lifelong Gaza resident on the past and future of the besieged territory

Are foreign influence peddlers developing a taste for local and municipal politicians?

When this war ends, Israel will need a new government and renewed commitment to peace. When that time comes, pay attention to the Labor Party’s Gilad Kariv.

Eighty-five were murdered at Kibbutz Be’eri. This is how it looked when I visited three and a half weeks later.

The president’s disaffected supporters want him to push for a cease-fire in Gaza before they sign on for another campaign.

Reoccupation by Israel? Putting the Palestinian Authority in charge? A Kosovo-style international intervention would be less bad than both of those.

Israel’s crimes in Gaza are clear. But Hamas has inflicted tremendous harm on blameless Palestinians in a political war of attrition against its Fatah rivals.

It’s imperative that Biden play a role in restraining the Israeli leader’s worst impulses.

We have battled Netanyahu and the right wing for decades. And now we feel alienated from a global left that won’t see Hamas for what it is.

Joe Biden will likely be damaged, Israel will pay a huge price—and, as usual, the Palestinian people will suffer the most.

The Biden administration thought the Palestine question could be downplayed in pursuit of other objectives. And here we are.

If it does, the region—and maybe the world—is on fire. But so far, most signs are that Iran does not want a wider war.

It’s hard to imagine a worse time for the world to fall back into the proliferation of the deadliest weapons mankind has ever wrought.

I admire the stated principles of the United States of America. I want it to live up to them.

Democrats had better start making the all-too-obvious case that a return to Trumpism would do untold damage to a vulnerable world.

His “Clash of Civilizations” essay in Foreign Affairs turned 30 this year. It was provocative, influential, manna for the modern right—and completely and utterly not true.

The defeat of Hamas must be followed with a revised plan, probably including several key Arab countries, to allow the creation of a viable Palestinian state alongside Israel.