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The debate over Iran has produced an unusual quantity of certainty. Verified findings about enrichment, intelligence testimony, and the results of the bombing campaign sit alongside claims that are, on inspection, judgments dressed as facts.
In the social sciences, framing is a set of concepts and theoretical perspectives on how individuals, groups, and societies organize, perceive, and communicate about reality.
Hamas casualty reports are a tangle of technical problems, and the problems are worth stating fairly before anything is built on them. The Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza began releasing datasets in the first month of the Hamas war with Israel in October…
All art is propaganda, and the most effective piece of propaganda in this war is not a staged scene; it is an unedited one. A media war over Gaza has run in parallel to the shooting war since long before October 2023 — the BBC observed in 2009 that the…
The consensus in Washington is that Hamas must disarm, and the consensus is correct. Why does the United States need Hamas to disarm? Hamas — the Islamic Resistance Movement, a Palestinian Sunni Islamist military and sociopolitical movement designated by the…
Hostile actors turned to social media against Israel because it is cheaper than rockets, deniable, and it reaches the legislators, journalists and voters of Israel's allies, not only its enemies.
Israel–Lebanon relations have been characterized by armed conflict, mutual hostility, and the absence of diplomatic relations since the establishment of Israel in 1948.
Nineteen democracies sent senior officers to study IDF tactics at an international seminar in November 2025 — a mark of global military respect, and the backdrop against which the Israeli military seeks to rebut the war crimes accusations of its critics.
The honest answer to who held sovereignty over the West Bank before 1967 is that every title on the table is weak. The territory was part of the British Mandate over Palestine until 1948; after the 1948–9 war and the General Armistice Agreement, the West Bank…
On 15 January 2021, Jim Garamone reported in DOD News that the United States military would move Israel from the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) area to the Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility, in a sign of the changing political environment in the…