Michael Horowitz

Israeli politics are littered with the unaccomplished ambitions of former generals who thought they could turn military gravitas into political…

Israel’s Bar Lev Line was supposed to be unbreakable. The chain of fortified strongpoints running the length of the Suez Canal was built after the…

Israel’s political history is littered with the unaccomplished ambitions of former generals. In a country where the armed forces are held in the…

On 22 July 2026, the US Department of Energy announced that Washington and Riyadh had signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement. It took the…

In late June, Israel’s government moved to formally recognise the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottomans, ending decades of official…

US President Donald Trump has now said out loud what had previously sounded like a trial balloon: he thinks Syria should take on Hezbollah in Lebanon…

The electronic ink was barely dry, and Israel already knew what it thought about the emerging agreement. "Bad deal," read the main headline of Yediot…

The past 24 hours have confirmed what analysts have feared for weeks: the fragile architecture of ceasefires, negotiations, and diplomatic gestures…

In the summer of 2006, Ehud Olmert was a newly minted Israeli premier (barely four months into the job) governing with middling approval ratings when…

On 15 May, as Israeli strikes and Hezbollah drone attacks continued in Lebanon, Washington announced that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to extend…