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Victoria Nuland arrives for a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 01, 2023.
Julia Ioffe December 13, 2023
Anger and resentment is exploding in Foggy Bottom after Kurt Campbell, a close friend of Tony Blinken, was nominated for deputy secretary of state over the agency’s more experienced acting No. 2, Victoria Nuland.
Joe Biden sits with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
Julia Ioffe December 13, 2023
After Biden issued a rare and searing public rebuke of Israel’s actions in its ongoing war against Hamas, Netanyahu tried to hang the thousands of Palestinian civilian casualties squarely around Biden’s neck—a hell of a thing to do as the president heads into his reelection campaign.
Testimony given by police, first responders, and survivors of the massacre tell a horrifying and gruesome story.
Julia Ioffe December 6, 2023
The West Wing conversations surrounding the ceasefire collapse, and the horrifying theories about what is happening to Israeli women in Gaza.
The images of the Palestinian prisoners’ release is emblematic of the problem Israel faces, in both the occupied West Bank and in Gaza.
Julia Ioffe November 29, 2023
It’s hard to imagine that all the trauma the Israeli and Palestinian people have lived through in the last two months won’t breed more radicalization and mistrust. But if it doesn’t result in some kind of political solution, we will find ourselves back here again too soon.


National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is known, in Washington, as a relentless pragmatist.
Julia Ioffe November 14, 2023
A very, very candid conversation with the national security adviser about the Israeli intelligence failure, Bibi-Biden, Ukraine, Xi, and much more.
Julia Ioffe November 8, 2023
Reflection on the tragedy in Israel, tragedy in Gaza, and where we go from here.
Julia Ioffe November 1, 2023
Israel has the right to defend itself and deter further invasion, but foreign policy insiders, and now Sullivan and Biden, are increasingly discussing the thresholds for retaliation, particularly under the covenants of international law. What does that mean for Israel—and Hamas?
Ambassador Dennis Ross was Bill Clinton’s Middle East envoy, and the chief U.S. negotiator in the 2000 Camp David Summit.
Julia Ioffe October 25, 2023
A conversation with Dennis Ross, the chief U.S. negotiator in the 2000 peace talks, about why they fell apart, how Israelis came to believe that the Palestinian problem could be managed, and how Oct. 7 exploded that fiction.


In response to would-be speaker Jim Jordan’s reported openness to linking Ukraine and Israel aid, Matt Gaetz jumped in to say the two should be considered separately.
Julia Ioffe October 18, 2023
Why is aid to Ukraine and aid to Israel different in the minds of Republicans?
Julia Ioffe October 11, 2023
Those who talk about a two-state solution are living in a world that hasn’t existed for a decade. Both sides have hardened to an exclusionary extreme that precludes compromise or coexistence. The events of the last week will ensure that even the embers of those hopes are doused cold.
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