Weighing the Consequences of E-1

by Michael J. Koplow

September 10, 2026

Israel’s Problems in the U.S. Can Be Boiled Down to One Thing

by Michael J. Koplow

September 3, 2026

Jewish Safety Is Necessary, But Not Sufficient

by Michael J. Koplow

August 13, 2026

Taking Advantage of Trump’s Predictable Unpredictability

by Michael J. Koplow

August 6, 2026

Israel’s Growing Problem on the Right Will Be Worse Than Its Problem on the Left

by Michael J. Koplow

July 30, 2026

Trump Is Doing Israel a Favor, Even If Neither Realizes It

by Michael J. Koplow

July 23, 2026

A Reset is Coming. Focus on the Fundamentals.

by Michael J. Koplow

July 16, 2026

Israel Should Not Let Lebanon Be Gaza Redux

by Michael J. Koplow

July 2, 2026

Three Lessons From the Latest Israel-Iran Volley

by Michael J. Koplow

June 11, 2026

Security Assistance to Israel Does Not Have the Impact You Think

by Michael J. Koplow

June 4, 2026

Mandatory Normalization Will Make Israel More Isolated, Not Less

by Michael J. Koplow

May 27, 2026

Why the Israeli Spotlight Is About to Return to Gaza

by Michael J. Koplow

May 21, 2026

Welcome to the Era of Trump-Smotrich Sanctions

by Michael J. Koplow

May 14, 2026

The Iran War Is Starting to Look a Lot Like Gaza

by Michael J. Koplow

May 7, 2026

To Understand the Bennett-Lapid Merger, Watch Everyone Else

by Michael J. Koplow

April 30, 2026

The Next Phase of Israel’s Independence

by Michael J. Koplow

April 23, 2026

The New American Reality of the Politics of Israel

by Michael J. Koplow

April 16, 2026

Judge the Iran War Entirely by the Nuclear Outcome

by Michael J. Koplow

March 31, 2026

Time to Stop Treating Jewish Terrorism As a Bug Rather Than a Feature

by Michael J. Koplow

March 26, 2026

How to Oppose the Iran War Without Conspiracy Theories About Israel

by Michael J. Koplow

March 18, 2026

Why Ideology Matters When Thinking About an Effective Iranian Opposition

by Michael J. Koplow

March 12, 2026

The Upside and the Downside of Israel’s Extraordinary Relationship With Trump

by Michael J. Koplow

March 4, 2026

Netanyahu’s Latest Gambit to Protect the Once and Future Coalition

by Michael J. Koplow

February 26, 2026

How to Judge the Board of Peace Meeting

by Michael J. Koplow

February 19, 2026

Why Your Hair Should Be on Fire About Israel’s New West Bank Policies

by Michael J. Koplow

February 12, 2026

The Israeli Opposition Needs a Better Approach to Arab Parties

by Michael J. Koplow

February 5, 2026

Why a Monopoly on Use of Force Is So Critical for Gaza

by Michael J. Koplow

January 29, 2026

Why Trump’s Greenland Problem Is Also Israel’s Greenland Problem

by Michael J. Koplow

January 22, 2026

Weighing U.S. Goals and U.S. Options on Iran

by Michael J. Koplow

January 14, 2026

Three Questions for 2026’s Pivotal Front

by Michael J. Koplow

January 8, 2026

Trump’s Gaza and West Bank Policies Are Moving in Opposite Directions

by Michael J. Koplow

December 18, 2025

Why Does Israel Matter to American Jews?

by Michael J. Koplow

December 11, 2025

Netanyahu’s Pardon Gambit Looks Familiar Because It’s His Best Trick

by Michael J. Koplow

December 4, 2025

Israel Should Take a Goldilocks Approach to Both the Saudis and the Palestinians

by Michael J. Koplow

November 20, 2025

The Trapped Hamas Fighters May Be the Key to Disarmament

by Michael J. Koplow

November 13, 2025

Yitzhak Rabin and Taking the Long View

by Michael J. Koplow

November 6, 2025

Everyone Is Focusing on the Wrong Half of Gaza

by Michael J. Koplow

October 23, 2025

It’s Time to Actually Displace Hamas

by Michael J. Koplow

October 17, 2025

Now Comes the Dawn

by Michael J. Koplow

October 9, 2025

Well Done Is Better Than Well Said

by Michael J. Koplow

September 30, 2025

This Trump-Netanyahu Meeting Must Be Different

by Michael J. Koplow

September 26, 2025

It’s Time to Stop Sleeping

by Michael J. Koplow

September 18, 2025

The Plausible Best-Case Scenario for the Next Month

by Michael J. Koplow

September 10, 2025

Israel Should Pay More Attention to Donald Trump

by Michael J. Koplow

September 4, 2025

Israel’s “Go It Alone” Regional Strategy Cannot Work

by Michael J. Koplow

August 13, 2025

Trump and Netanyahu Are Following Each Other Into Disaster

by Michael J. Koplow

August 7, 2025

Follow the Bouncing Ball

by Michael J. Koplow

July 31, 2025

Palestinian Statehood and the Abdication of Leadership

by Michael J. Koplow

July 25, 2025

Is Ezra Klein Right About Israel and American Jews?

by Michael J. Koplow

July 24, 2025

The Iran-Centric View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is About to Be Tested

by Michael J. Koplow

July 10, 2025

Breaking Out of Israel’s Unwinnable Loop

by Michael J. Koplow

July 3, 2025

Three Obvious Yet Contested Points About Israel and Iran

by Michael J. Koplow

June 27, 2025

Is Israel Embarking on a New Lebanon, or a New Gaza?

by Michael J. Koplow

June 17, 2025

The Future Failed State That Israel Is Creating in Gaza

by Michael J. Koplow

June 12, 2025

Yes, And…

by Michael J. Koplow

June 5, 2025

If You Can’t Spot the Sucker at the Table, It’s You

by Michael J. Koplow

May 28, 2025

Israel Has to Figure Out What It Can Do for Trump

by Michael J. Koplow

May 15, 2025

Trump’s Virgil Sollozzo Approach to Israel

by Michael J. Koplow

May 8, 2025

The Double Opportunity of the PA’s Renewed Diplomacy

by Michael J. Koplow

May 1, 2025

What We Owe Each Other

by Michael J. Koplow

April 24, 2025

The Larger Costs of Netanyahu’s Strikeout With Trump

by Michael J. Koplow

April 10, 2025

We Need to Stop Pretending We Are Israelis When It Comes to Antisemitism

by Michael J. Koplow

April 3, 2025

The Policy Implications of Huckabee’s Non-Policy Approach to Israel

by Michael J. Koplow

March 27, 2025

The Ceasefire Had an Irresolvable Contradiction, and So Does Netanyahu’s Vision for What’s Next

by Michael J. Koplow

March 20, 2025

Israel Needs to Get Used to Trump’s Unexceptionalism

by Michael J. Koplow

March 11, 2025

Judge the Seriousness of the Arab League Plan by How Seriously It Takes Hamas

by Michael J. Koplow

March 5, 2025

What They Deserve and What We Deserve

by Michael J. Koplow

February 27, 2025

The Direct Security Implications of Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze

by Michael J. Koplow

February 20, 2025

If Israel Is Serious About Deradicalization, It’s Time to Put Up or Shut Up

by Michael J. Koplow

February 13, 2025

Is Trump Literal, Serious, or Both?

by Michael J. Koplow

February 5, 2025

When You Move Fast, You Break Things

by Michael J. Koplow

January 30, 2025

Everyone Sees in Trump Precisely What They Want to See

by Michael J. Koplow

January 23, 2025

The Domestic Politics of the Hostage Negotiations

by Michael J. Koplow

January 16, 2025

What Does “All Hell to Pay” Look Like?

by Michael J. Koplow

January 9, 2025

Follow the Causal Chain to the End

by Michael J. Koplow

December 19, 2024

Preserving Order Out of the Syrian Chaos

by Michael J. Koplow

December 12, 2024

What’s at Stake for Israel in Syria

by Michael J. Koplow

December 5, 2024

The Double-Sided Drawback to the ICC Warrants

by Michael J. Koplow

November 27, 2024

Beware the Annexation Misdirection

by Michael J. Koplow

November 21, 2024

Can We All Agree That Pogroms Are Bad?

by Michael J. Koplow

November 14, 2024

A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Version of What Happens Next

by Michael J. Koplow

November 8, 2024

The Ballad of Bibi and Yoav

by Michael J. Koplow

November 6, 2024

The Highest Stakes Do Not Lie in the Presidential Election

by Michael J. Koplow

October 31, 2024

The Discord Over Dominoes

by Michael J. Koplow

October 23, 2024

Expand the Light

by Michael J. Koplow

October 10, 2024

Be the Head, and Not the Tail

by Michael J. Koplow

October 2, 2024

The Rewards and Risks of Israel’s War Against Hezbollah

by Michael J. Koplow

September 26, 2024

Israel’s Foreign Policy Continues to Be Swallowed by Politics

by Michael J. Koplow

September 19, 2024

Donald Trump Is Not the Sun Around Which Israel Revolves

by Michael J. Koplow

September 12, 2024

The Lies We Tell Ourselves

by Michael J. Koplow

September 4, 2024

The One Big Thing That Netanyahu Has Right

by Michael J. Koplow

August 28, 2024

Define Victory Better the Next Time Around

by Michael J. Koplow

August 15, 2024

Josh Shapiro and the Contours of the Israel Debate

by Michael J. Koplow

August 8, 2024

Dr. Israel and Mr. Judea

by Michael J. Koplow

August 1, 2024

Netanyahu Insists on Not Missing the Opportunity to Miss an Opportunity

by Michael J. Koplow

July 25, 2024

Five Things to Watch During Bibi’s Week in Washington

by Michael J. Koplow

July 18, 2024

The Thorn in Every Plan for Gaza

by Michael J. Koplow

July 3, 2024

What’s the Opposite of Dugri?

by Michael J. Koplow

June 27, 2024

What Gantz’s Departure Will and Won’t Change

by Michael J. Koplow

June 11, 2024

Quiet, There’s Deterrence Taking Place

by Michael J. Koplow

June 6, 2024

What Does an Israeli Victory Actually Look Like?

by Michael J. Koplow

May 30, 2024

The One Thing Biden Should Press the Saudis to Do

by Michael J. Koplow

May 23, 2024

Why Biden Is Right

by Michael J. Koplow

May 16, 2024

Sacrificing Independence in Order to Gain It

by Michael J. Koplow

May 9, 2024

Three Simple Rules for Gaslighting American Jews

by Michael J. Koplow

May 2, 2024

Passover’s Prescription for Practicing Patience

by Michael J. Koplow

April 22, 2024

An Opportunity to Rewrite the October 7 Playbook

by Michael J. Koplow

April 18, 2024

Don’t Accept the Preventable as Inevitable

by Michael J. Koplow

April 4, 2024

Making “Israel Alone” a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

by Michael J. Koplow

March 26, 2024

What the U.S.-Israel Fighting Should Accomplish

by Michael J. Koplow

March 21, 2024

The Misconceptions Behind the U.S.-Israel Spat

by Michael J. Koplow

March 14, 2024

Don’t Argue, Just Fix It

by Michael J. Koplow

March 7, 2024

How to Ensure That There Is No Day After

by Michael J. Koplow

February 29, 2024

The Palestinian Authority’s Inability to Get Out of Its Own Way

by Michael J. Koplow

February 22, 2024

The Sleight of Hand in Dismissing Settler Violence

by Michael J. Koplow

February 15, 2024

What Does an Irreversible Path to Palestinian Statehood Mean?

by Michael J. Koplow

February 8, 2024

Israel and the International Community

by Michael J. Koplow

February 1, 2024

What an Israeli Policy That Took Security Control Seriously Would Look Like

by Michael J. Koplow

January 25, 2024

The Dilemma of the Short Term Versus the Long Term

by Michael J. Koplow

January 18, 2024

Do Not Sleep on Our Own Extremists

by Michael J. Koplow

January 11, 2024

Time For a Basic Law on Basic Laws

by Michael J. Koplow

January 4, 2024

A Call for Less Certainty in 2024

by Michael J. Koplow

December 21, 2023

Netanyahu’s Magical Thinking on What Happens Next

by Michael J. Koplow

December 14, 2023

Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and Common Sense

by Michael J. Koplow

December 7, 2023

The Most Irresponsible Man in Israel

by Michael J. Koplow

November 30, 2023

There Is Lots of Hearing, But Not Enough Listening

by Michael J. Koplow

November 21, 2023

Bibi Is Still Up to His Old Tricks

by Michael J. Koplow

November 16, 2023

Hamas and Ideology

by Michael J. Koplow

November 9, 2023

What Is Hizballah Waiting For?

by Michael J. Koplow

November 2, 2023

Don’t Sacrifice a New Middle East for a New Gaza

by Michael J. Koplow

October 26, 2023

Three Questions That Are High-Risk What-Ifs

by Michael J. Koplow

October 24, 2023

Three Problems to Think About Now Rather Than Later

by Michael J. Koplow

October 16, 2023

The Great Shattering

by Michael J. Koplow

October 9, 2023

Embrace the Equality of Social Restraint

by Michael J. Koplow

October 5, 2023

Michael Koplow Testifies Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee

by Michael J. Koplow

September 27, 2023

Now Who Doesn’t Understand Israeli Realities?

by Michael J. Koplow

September 21, 2023

Crisis and Resilience

by Michael J. Koplow

September 14, 2023

Looking Out for Number One

by Michael J. Koplow

September 7, 2023

Reading Between Smotrich and Ben Gvir’s Lines

by Michael J. Koplow

August 31, 2023

When a Farm Is Not Just a Farm

by Michael J. Koplow

August 10, 2023

Go Big or Go Home

by Michael J. Koplow

August 3, 2023

​​Apocalypse Now, or the Gathering Storm?

by Michael J. Koplow

July 27, 2023

What Israel Is and What Israel Is Not

by Michael J. Koplow

July 20, 2023

Biden’s New Focus Regarding Israel Is Exactly Right

by Michael J. Koplow

July 13, 2023

Focus on What Happens the Day After Jenin

by Michael J. Koplow

July 6, 2023

Take a Deep Breath

by Michael J. Koplow

June 22, 2023

Enjoy Your One-State Reality

by Michael J. Koplow

June 15, 2023

Innocents Abroad

by Michael J. Koplow

June 8, 2023

The Netanyahu Government Proclaims Its Priorities

by Michael J. Koplow

June 1, 2023

The World in Which Trump Was Soft on Jerusalem

by Michael J. Koplow

May 25, 2023

Palestinian Islamic Jihad Is Everyone’s Perfect Foil

by Michael J. Koplow

May 18, 2023

Into the Gaza Echo Chamber

by Michael J. Koplow

May 11, 2023

Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place

by Michael J. Koplow

May 4, 2023

The Ever-Miraculous Israel

by Michael J. Koplow

April 26, 2023

The One-Size-Fits-All Explanation

by Michael J. Koplow

April 20, 2023

The Desecration of the Temple Mount

by Michael J. Koplow

April 11, 2023

Some Unsolicited Advice for Bibi, Benny, and Biden

by Michael J. Koplow

March 30, 2023

Dropping the Pretense of Israel’s Obsession With Security

by Michael J. Koplow

March 23, 2023

Why a Judicial Compromise is Important No Matter the Content

by Michael J. Koplow

March 9, 2023

The War on Moral Authority

by Michael J. Koplow

March 2, 2023

Why the Israeli Government Did Not Start With the Supreme Court Override

by Michael J. Koplow

February 23, 2023

It’s Time for the U.S. to Put Up or Shut Up

by Michael J. Koplow

February 16, 2023

The Opportunity and Warning for Israel in the Turkish Earthquake

by Michael J. Koplow

February 9, 2023

There Is No Cycle of Violence

by Michael J. Koplow

February 2, 2023

Constitutional Revolutions With No Constitution

by Michael J. Koplow

January 19, 2023

Delays on the Washington-Jerusalem Shuttle

by Michael J. Koplow

January 12, 2023

Israel’s New Government Is Precisely What You’ve Heard

by Michael J. Koplow

January 5, 2023

A New Year’s Resolution for Americans and Israelis

by Michael J. Koplow

December 22, 2022

Don’t Fall for the Simple Narratives That Are Coming

by Michael J. Koplow

December 15, 2022

Annexation by Any Other Name

by Michael J. Koplow

December 8, 2022

The Spider-Man Standard

by Michael J. Koplow

December 1, 2022

The Future Is Now

by Michael J. Koplow

November 17, 2022

The Case for Optimism Regarding the New Israeli Government

by Michael J. Koplow

November 10, 2022

Extolling Israeli Democracy Cannot Only Be About Elections

by Michael J. Koplow

November 3, 2022

Three Matchups to Watch on Tuesday

by Michael J. Koplow

October 27, 2022

Abu Mazen’s Myopic Maneuvering

by Michael J. Koplow

October 20, 2022

The Wider Context of the Israel-Lebanon Deal

by Michael J. Koplow

October 13, 2022

Lapid Says the Magic Words

by Michael J. Koplow

September 29, 2022

Breaking Down the Arab Parties’ Breakup

by Michael J. Koplow

September 22, 2022

The Season of American Jewish Introspection

by Michael J. Koplow

September 15, 2022

The Intensification of the West Bank’s Perpetual Catch-22

by Michael J. Koplow

September 8, 2022

Everyone on Both Sides Should Calm Down About the JCPOA

by Michael J. Koplow

September 1, 2022

The End of Policy Substance in Israeli Politics

by Michael J. Koplow

August 17, 2022

Proof of Concept for a Better Gaza Policy

by Michael J. Koplow

August 11, 2022

Russia’s Real-Time Rendition of Zionism’s Possibilities and Pitfalls

by Michael J. Koplow

July 28, 2022

Israel’s Regional Ambitions Are Hitting an Iranian Wall, Not a Palestinian One

by Michael J. Koplow

July 21, 2022

An Israeli-Palestinian Issue Almost Everyone Can Agree On

by Michael J. Koplow

July 7, 2022

The Regional Visions of the New Prime Minister and the Old Prime Minister

by Michael J. Koplow

June 30, 2022

Three Early Things to Watch as the Coalition Dissolves

by Michael J. Koplow

June 23, 2022

Judge the Bennett-Lapid Coalition by What Happens Rather Than What Happened

by Michael J. Koplow

June 16, 2022

The Triumph of the Nihilists

by Michael J. Koplow

June 9, 2022

The Furor and Fallout From Flags

by Michael J. Koplow

June 2, 2022

The Coalition Politics of the Ideological Versus the Material

by Michael J. Koplow

May 26, 2022

The Opportunity of Biden’s Israel Trip

by Michael J. Koplow

May 19, 2022

Staring Into the Abbas Abyss

by Michael J. Koplow

May 12, 2022

Israel’s Independence Day and Jewish Independence

by Michael J. Koplow

May 5, 2022

Hamas’ Gaza-Last Strategy

by Michael J. Koplow

April 28, 2022

Use and Abuse of the Temple Mount

by Michael J. Koplow

April 21, 2022

The Barrier to a Real Security Barrier

by Michael J. Koplow

April 14, 2022

The Coalition Lost Its Majority. What Happens Next?

by Michael J. Koplow

April 6, 2022

The Evolution of the Abraham Accords

by Michael J. Koplow

March 31, 2022

Is the U.S. Ready for Israel to Fully Be Part of the Middle East?

by Michael J. Koplow

March 24, 2022

What Is the Goal of Naftali Bennett’s Russia Mediation?

by Michael J. Koplow

March 17, 2022

Zelensky’s Appeal to Jewish Solidarity Must Overcome One Big Obstacle

by Michael J. Koplow

March 10, 2022

The Limits of Seeing the Middle East in Russia and Ukraine

by Michael J. Koplow

March 3, 2022

If Someone Shrinks a Conflict but Nobody Sees It, Has It Been Shrunk?

by Michael J. Koplow

February 24, 2022

The Unique Israel-Bahrain Dynamic

by Michael J. Koplow

February 17, 2022

The Biden Administration’s Stealthy Success

by Michael J. Koplow

February 10, 2022

The Strange Case of Erasing Nationalism From a National Conflict

by Michael J. Koplow

February 3, 2022

The Extremism of Mundane Occupation

by Michael J. Koplow

January 26, 2022

Reports of the Israeli Coalition’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

by Michael J. Koplow

January 20, 2022

Don’t Ignore the Silent Israel-Diaspora Rift

by Michael J. Koplow

January 13, 2022

Succumbing to and Overcoming Extremism

by Michael J. Koplow

January 6, 2022

Mind the Expectations Gap

by Michael J. Koplow

December 16, 2021

The Urgent and the Important

by Michael J. Koplow

December 9, 2021

Hanukkah Is the Model for a Healthier Jewish Peoplehood

by Michael J. Koplow

December 2, 2021

The Domestic Politics Driving Israeli Policy

by Michael J. Koplow

November 18, 2021

The Non-Division Of An Already Divided Jerusalem

by Michael J. Koplow

November 10, 2021

The Twin Gambles Undergirding U.S.-Israel Relations

by Michael J. Koplow

November 4, 2021

The Consensus Coalition That Ranged Beyond The Consensus

by Michael J. Koplow

October 27, 2021

The Toxic Exclusionism of Winning Through Someone Else’s Loss

by Michael J. Koplow

October 21, 2021

Foreign Minister FOMO

by Michael J. Koplow

October 14, 2021

Call Out Settler Terrorism

by Michael J. Koplow

October 6, 2021

The Aftermath of the Iron Dome Vote

by Michael J. Koplow

September 27, 2021

The Past of Ancient Judaism and the Future of American Judaism

by Michael J. Koplow

September 23, 2021

The Abraham Accords Are Spurring More Normalization, But Not Where You’re Looking

by Michael J. Koplow

September 15, 2021

Political Processes and Political Dimensions

by Michael J. Koplow

September 2, 2021

Limits On Lessons From The Disastrous Afghanistan Withdrawal

by Michael J. Koplow

August 19, 2021

Take the Lemonade That Is Offered

by Michael J. Koplow

August 12, 2021

Ignore the Israeli-Palestinian End Game

by Michael J. Koplow

August 4, 2021

What’s The Problem With Boycotting Settlements?

by Michael J. Koplow

July 29, 2021

Settle-mint Chip Brain Freeze

by Michael J. Koplow

July 22, 2021

Israel’s Turkey Baloney

by Michael J. Koplow

July 15, 2021

The Enjoyment of Being Outraged

by Michael J. Koplow

July 8, 2021

Holding Your Nose With The Palestinian Authority

by Michael J. Koplow

July 1, 2021

The Opportunity Presented by the New Israeli Government

by Michael J. Koplow

June 24, 2021

The Sliding Doors of Bibi Netanyahu’s Legacy

by Michael J. Koplow

June 10, 2021

Three Thoughts On Israel’s Prospective New Government

by Michael J. Koplow

June 3, 2021

The Other Half of the Equation to Sidelining Hamas

by Michael J. Koplow

May 27, 2021

What The U.S. Should Be Doing Right Now

by Michael J. Koplow

May 20, 2021

To The Spoilers Goes The Victory

by Michael J. Koplow

May 13, 2021

Israel’s Real Crisis Is Not About Politics

by Michael J. Koplow

May 6, 2021

The Simplification of a Non-Simple Issue

by Michael J. Koplow

April 29, 2021

Confederation in Principle, Confederation in Practice

by Michael J. Koplow

April 22, 2021

Keep Israel’s Remarkable Achievement Going

by Michael J. Koplow

April 15, 2021

What’s the Purpose of Aid to the Palestinians?

by Michael J. Koplow

April 8, 2021

Three Dilemmas For Israeli Politicians

by Michael J. Koplow

April 1, 2021

There Are No Israeli Political Blocs

by Michael J. Koplow

March 25, 2021

Dealing With Terrorists

by Michael J. Koplow

March 18, 2021

Is Israel A Jewish State, or The Jewish State?

by Michael J. Koplow

March 11, 2021

Vaccines Are A Perfect Opportunity For The Abraham Accords To Shine

by Michael J. Koplow

March 4, 2021

Purim and The Risk of Isolation

by Michael J. Koplow

February 25, 2021

Don’t Call Me, I’ll Call You

by Michael J. Koplow

February 18, 2021

What To Do When Israel Is Not The Center Of The World

by Michael J. Koplow

February 11, 2021

Israeli Mergers and Acquisitions

by Michael J. Koplow

February 4, 2021

Resetting the Board

by Michael J. Koplow

January 28, 2021

The Common Challenge Facing the U.S. and Israel

by Michael J. Koplow

January 21, 2021

Summing Up Four Years of Trump on Israel in His Ambassador’s Words

by Michael J. Koplow

January 14, 2021

The Challenge of Solidifying the Abraham Accords

by Michael J. Koplow

January 7, 2021

Things to Watch in 2021 

by Michael J. Koplow

December 23, 2020

Time to Stop Talking About Talks

by Michael J. Koplow

December 17, 2020

Gideon Sa’ar Reshuffles Israel’s Political Deck

by Michael J. Koplow

December 10, 2020

What Is Israel Up To With Iran?

by Michael J. Koplow

December 3, 2020

Politics at Home and Politics Abroad

by Michael J. Koplow

November 19, 2020

How Israelis and Palestinians Can Start Off On the Right Foot

by Michael J. Koplow

November 12, 2020

Some Political Science Wisdom For What Comes Next

by Michael J. Koplow

November 5, 2020

A Glimpse Into A Second Trump Term

by Michael J. Koplow

October 29, 2020

The Short-Sighted Palestinian Turn Toward Turkey

by Michael J. Koplow

October 22, 2020

Israel’s Eleventh Hour Mad Dash

by Michael J. Koplow

October 15, 2020

The Use and Misuse of Leverage

by Michael J. Koplow

October 8, 2020

Scraping the Bottom of the Progressive Barrel

by Michael J. Koplow

October 1, 2020

RBG and American Jewish Exceptionalism

by Michael J. Koplow

September 24, 2020

The End of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

by Michael J. Koplow

September 17, 2020

The Cynical Obfuscation Around Settlements

by Michael J. Koplow

September 10, 2020

The Iron Wall Versus the Villa in the Jungle

by Michael J. Koplow

September 3, 2020

Reports of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated

by Michael J. Koplow

August 27, 2020

The Search for Bonds of Jewish Peoplehood

by Michael J. Koplow

August 13, 2020

Popular Protests and Political Parties

by Michael J. Koplow

August 6, 2020

Measuring Progress on Democratic Party Policy

by Michael J. Koplow

July 30, 2020

States Versus Societies, and Realities Versus Solutions

by Michael J. Koplow

July 16, 2020

The New Center of Gravity On Annexation

by Michael J. Koplow

July 9, 2020

Annexation Versus the Annexation Debate

by Michael J. Koplow

July 2, 2020

A Diplomat’s Guide to Insulting Your Audience’s Intelligence

by Michael J. Koplow

June 25, 2020

The Wages of Radical Unilateralism

by Michael J. Koplow

June 18, 2020

Now Who’s Being Unrealistic?

by Michael J. Koplow

June 11, 2020

Don’t Mistake the Immediate for the Important

by Michael J. Koplow

June 4, 2020

There’s No Better Time Than Now For a Palestinian Peace Plan

by Michael J. Koplow

May 28, 2020

Netanyahu’s Vision for Likud’s Future

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May 21, 2020

The Shambles of Survey Statistics on Sovereignty

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May 14, 2020

Creating New Realities

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May 7, 2020

The Missed Opportunity in the Independence of Israel’s Arabs

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April 30, 2020

It’s All About the Benjamins

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April 23, 2020

If Moses Had Benny Gantz’s Negotiating Skills

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April 7, 2020

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April 2, 2020

Israel’s Non-Constitutional Constitutional Crisis

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March 26, 2020

Using a State of Emergency to Create a Different State of Emergency

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March 19, 2020

Purim and the Joint List

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March 12, 2020

Choose Your Own Adventure Elections Analysis

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March 5, 2020

The Netanyahu Election Playbook Is Alive and Well

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February 27, 2020

The Committee To Implement Annexation

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February 20, 2020

The Palestinian Public’s Pushback to the Peace to Prosperity Plan

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February 13, 2020

The Perils of Sacrificing Sovereignty to Gain Sovereignty

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February 6, 2020

Building a Better Trump Plan

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January 30, 2020

Benny Gantz and the Politics of Annexation

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January 23, 2020

Politics and Principles on the Left and Right

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January 16, 2020

Qassem Soleimani and Deterrence

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January 9, 2020

Our Reaction To Anti-Semitism Is Both Overblown and Underdeveloped

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January 2, 2020

Three Questions For The Year Ahead

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December 26, 2019

It’s Time To Decide How We Treat The Palestinian Authority

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December 19, 2019

A Lesson for the Israeli Opposition

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December 12, 2019

Political Imperatives Versus Security Imperatives

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December 5, 2019

Having Your West Bank Cake And Eating It Too

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November 21, 2019

The Wider Implications of Israel’s Strike at Islamic Jihad

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November 14, 2019

The Election Plan That Is Actually a Crack in the Right-Wing Bloc

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November 7, 2019

Toward a New American Jewish Identity

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October 31, 2019

The Shifting Ground of Conditioning Aid to Israel

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October 24, 2019

The Layers of Israel’s Trump Mistake

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October 17, 2019

The Israel Angle To Trump’s Syria Sellout

by Michael J. Koplow

October 10, 2019

We Stand Divided, But Why?

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October 3, 2019

Why Trump’s Call For Normalized Relations With Israel Will Go Unheeded

by Michael J. Koplow

September 26, 2019

Why Last Night Was Different From All The Others

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September 18, 2019

Why Empty Annexation Threats Are Still Threatening

by Michael J. Koplow

September 12, 2019

Hizballah’s Puzzling Quiet

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September 5, 2019

Trump’s Leverage Over Netanyahu

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August 29, 2019

The Sound and Fury of the Radical Fringe

by Michael J. Koplow

August 15, 2019

About Those Palestinian Homes in Area C

by Michael J. Koplow

August 8, 2019

Trump May Not Be Coming For The Jews, But Someone Is

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August 1, 2019

Pay Special Attention To Israel’s Recent Home Demolitions

by Michael J. Koplow

July 25, 2019

There’s Something Happening Here, What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear

by Michael J. Koplow

July 18, 2019

Israeli Political Mergers and Acquisitions

by Michael J. Koplow

July 11, 2019

Fun Times at Israel Fantasy Camp

by Michael J. Koplow

July 2, 2019

The Monty Python Version of Israeli-Palestinian Peace

by Michael J. Koplow

June 27, 2019

Liberman Is Not The Totem American Jews Are Looking For

by Michael J. Koplow

June 6, 2019

If You Like Israeli Elections, It’s Your Lucky Day

by Michael J. Koplow

May 30, 2019

The Deal Of The Century’s Audacious Bets

by Michael J. Koplow

May 23, 2019

Rashida Tlaib and the Allure of Shiny Objects

by Michael J. Koplow

May 16, 2019

Should Bereaved Israelis and Palestinians Grieve Together?

by Michael J. Koplow

May 9, 2019

What’s So Bad About Partial Annexation?

by Michael J. Koplow

May 2, 2019

The Most Pro-Israel President Ever

by Michael J. Koplow

April 25, 2019

American Jewry’s Trump Virus

by Michael J. Koplow

April 18, 2019

Three Takeaways and One Prediction From Israel’s Election

by Michael J. Koplow

April 10, 2019

The Bibi Election

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April 4, 2019

The Easy Answers Fallacy

by Michael J. Koplow

March 28, 2019

Benny Gantz and the AIPAC Trap

by Michael J. Koplow

March 21, 2019

What Do American Jews Care About?

by Michael J. Koplow

March 14, 2019

Treat Israeli Arabs As People, Not Things

by Michael J. Koplow

March 7, 2019

Election Interference 101, or Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee

by Michael J. Koplow

February 28, 2019

Netanyahu’s Political Nightmare Came True

by Michael J. Koplow

February 21, 2019

Why Tzipi Livni’s End Matters More For The Right Than The Left

by Michael J. Koplow

February 21, 2019

Ilhan Omar and the Power of Clarity

by Michael J. Koplow

February 14, 2019

A Tale of Two Paths

by Michael J. Koplow

February 7, 2019

What Benny Gantz Is Really Signaling

by Michael J. Koplow

January 31, 2019

How To Make Anti-Terrorism A Misnomer

by Michael J. Koplow

January 24, 2019

Trump’s Purely Political Israel Glasses

by Michael J. Koplow

January 17, 2019

The Big BDS Bang

by Michael J. Koplow

January 10, 2019

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff of Israeli Election Politics

by Michael J. Koplow

January 3, 2019

Five Things To Watch In 2019

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December 20, 2018

Naftali Bennett Knows What’s Wrong With You

by Michael J. Koplow

December 13, 2018

Hanukkah’s Celebration of Assimilation

by Michael J. Koplow

December 6, 2018

Rand Paul and Honest Conversations About the Palestinians

by Michael J. Koplow