Michael Koplow is the chief policy officer of Israel Policy Forum. He writes the weekly Koplow Column and co-authored Starting from the Ground Up: U.S. Policy Options for Post-Hamas Gaza. A version of this column originally appeared on X.
Michael Koplow
By Michael Koplow
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Opinion Benjamin Netanyahu firing Yoav Gallant is a staggeringly reckless decision
Israel’s defense minister gets the boot as Israel faces war and a diplomatic showdown with the US
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Opinion Hamas is guilty of inhuman violence. What about the Palestinians who cheered them on?
Palestinian society, and leadership, must speak out now
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Netanyahu may still find it a pleasant respite from what he faces in Israel.
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Opinion Are Israeli generals more left-wing than their own government?
For those who think military leaders are inherently conservative, Israel’s security establishment presents a puzzle
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Jewish organizations are not prepared for what a far-right ascendance means for the US-Israel relationship
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Trump has an uncanny knack for destroying what he does not like
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Opinion Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is theater of the absurd
In one of the strangest spectacles in diplomatic history, President Donald Trump is convening a summit in Washington next week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli opposition chief Benny Gantz to discuss his oft-delayed and long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The exercise is strange for a few reasons. In what surely must be…
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Opinion Trump Is Using Israel To Shield His Racism
When someone uses racist and incendiary language to accuse American Jews of undermining the U.S. and being foreign implants in service of Israel, we waste no time in condemning that language as anti-Semitic. But what do we do when someone uses racist and incendiary language to accuse other Americans of undermining the U.S. and being…
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