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@IsraelPolicy4m chief policy officer, Israel and Turkey observer, Red Sox obsessive, and father of three adorable kids. All opinions solely my own.
France's intention to recognize Palestinian statehood is public relations and political virtue signaling dressed up as diplomacy. Unfortunately, Israel is engaged in the same exercise, and the U.S. is nowhere to be found. A sad sign of the times israelpolicyforum.org/2025/07/25/pal…
Ezra Klein is right that Israel is fracturing American Jews. But he misses that for most Jews, it is a more complex and less binary issue, and also that what makes sense for American Jews and for Israeli Jews are not the same thing israelpolicyforum.org/2025/07/24/is-…
A welcome shift from argument that GHF mechanism was a game changer to provide aid and bypass Hamas. It remains insufficient to do either. More can and should be done thru all channels, but without ending war + postwar planning the crisis will deepen. israelpolicyforum.org/gaza-humanitar…
Gaza may well be approaching a real hunger crisis. Shocked to be reading this from me? I don’t blame you. Let’s break down why, unlike past lies about the situation in Gaza, new research is real cause for concern, and what it means for Israel. Yesterday, @YannayASpitzer, an…
More and more effectively distributed aid is urgently needed in Gaza, ceasefire or no ceasefire. Practical improvements to the GHF and U.N. aid mechanism and better integration between the two present a way forward. israelpolicyforum.org/gaza-humanitar…
Netanyahu and the Israeli right’s worldview puts Iran at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the region’s approach to it. That hypothesis is about to be tested in real-world conditions, writes @mkoplow in this week's #KoplowColumn. israelpolicyforum.org/2025/07/10/the…
Michael Koplow (@mkoplow) joins @NoelKing on @voxdotcom's @today_explained podcast to provide context and analysis on the Trump-Netanyahu meetings. 14:30 mark: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tru…