Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack seems to have been planned with specific goals in mind, yet without considering the wider consequences for the movement. A pattern is emerging in Hamas’ behavior where its short-term plans produce unexpected achievements and consequences that supersede the movement’s political capacity to deal with them. The …

US F-15s bombed a facility in eastern Syria as the Pentagon’s Middle East policy director openly warned that the US military may target Iranian IRGC personnel in a bid to halt militia attacks on American troops. The United States military on Wednesday launched a new round of airstrikes targeting a …

Many decades ago, the Americans proposed to use nuclear weapons to blast a waterway through the Negev Desert. But the plan never progressed. This is why it did not — and why there is some talk about the ‘Ben Gurion Canal’ again as Israel pushes to destroy Hamas in Gaza …