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Dome of the rock and wailing wall in Jerusalem, Israel

(Screenshot via Fox News)

In the Media

Hamas and the Gaza Hospital Explosion

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Oct 18, 2023

In the Media

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Podcast

China Insider | China Alienates Israel, Putin in Beijing, and Country Garden’s Imminent Collapse

Miles Yu

Senior Fellow and Director, China Center

Miles Yu

Oct 17, 2023

Podcast

Israeli tanks move near Gaza border as Israeli army deploys military vehicles around the Gaza Strip, Israel, on October 12, 2023. (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Commentary

The Cost of Strong American Support at the Start of the War

Jonathan Schachter

Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Jonathan Schachter

Oct 16, 2023

Commentary

6 Min Read

A young boy holds up a Hamas flag in between Palestinian Hamas militant during a military show in the Bani Suheila district of Gaza on July 20, 2017. (Chris McGrath via Getty Images)

Commentary

Hamas’s Strategy of Human Sacrifice

Douglas J. Feith

Senior Fellow

Douglas J. Feith

Oct 16, 2023

Commentary

4 Min Read

Secretary of State John Kerry greets Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Vienna on July 14, 2014. (US State Department via Flickr)

Commentary

Appeasing Iran Has Failed

Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

Walter Russell Mead

Oct 16, 2023

Commentary

1 Min Read

A long line of cars lined up for gas at filling station on a Saturday night during the oil crisis of 1973, Brooklyn, New York City. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/Getty Images)

A long line of cars lined up for gas at filling station on a Saturday night during the oil crisis of 1973 in Brooklyn, New York City. (Allan Tannenbaum via Getty Images)

Commentary

Echoes of the 1973 Oil Crisis

Arthur Herman

Former Senior Fellow

Arthur Herman

Oct 15, 2023

Commentary

1 Min Read

(Screenshot via C-SPAN)

In the Media

Geopolitical Fallout from the Israel-Hamas Conflict

Michael Doran

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Michael Doran

Oct 15, 2023

In the Media

This photo taken on November 5, 2019 shows a compression station of the Balticconnector marine gas pipeline in Inga (Inkoo), Finland. Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said on October 10, 2023 that a leak leading to the shutdown of a natural gas pipeline from Estonia to Finland this weekend was probably caused by "external activity." The Finnish government is to hold a press conference later on October 10 to inform about the Balticconnector marine gas pipeline leak in the Gulf of Finland. (Photo by Mikko Sti

A compression station of the Balticconnector marine gas pipeline in Inga, Finland, on November 5, 2019.

Commentary

The Key Gas Pipeline Blast That the World Hardly Noticed

Luke Coffey

Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Luke Coffey

Oct 13, 2023

Commentary

5 Min Read

Aviation Boatswain's Mate observes an F/A-18E Super Hornet attached to the "Tomcatters" of Strike Fighter Squadron landing on the flight deck of the world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea on October 13, 2023. (Jacob Mattingly via DVIDS)

Commentary

The US Can — and Must — Support Its Friends Abroad