Read Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr on Washington’s Middle East strategy, Amos Yadlin and Udi Evental on Israel’s security, and Audrey Kurth Cronin on the best way to defeat Hamas.
A new series of essays in the upcoming issue of Foreign Affairs grapples with some of the central questions looming over Israel’s war against Hamas. What must Israel do to reestablish its sense of security? Will international outrage regarding Palestinian civilian casualties pressure Israel to change course? What does the future hold for Gaza and the Palestinian people? And what does the crisis mean for the United States’ Middle East strategy?
Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr argue that if Washington wants to bring peace to the region, it will have “to craft a new strategy for the Middle East, one that contends with the realities it has long ignored.” For Israel, returning to the pre–October 7 status quo is not an option, write Amos Yadlin and Udi Evental. Israel’s leaders “should prioritize national security interests above political survival” and reckon with the intelligence and political failures that reduced Israel’s preparedness in the lead-up to Hamas’s attack. And given that Hamas designed its assault to stoke an overreaction from Israel, Audrey Kurth Cronin argues, the best way to defeat the group is for Israel to “regain the moral high ground by moderating its use of force”—and to “refuse to play into Hamas’s hands.”
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