Top Pentagon brass complain the Israel-Palestinian impasse is undermining American interests. We’ll look at the US-Israel moment of crisis.

Think tanks in Washington are playing out the scenarios of an Israeli attack on Iran. We’ll look at the tough results they’ve found.

The plot thickens in the assassination of a top Hamas leader in Dubai. We’ll look at the hit, Israel’s interests, and the regional aftershocks.

We’ll talk with the founder of J Street, the upstart Jewish lobbying organization that wants to be the liberal answer to AIPAC.

Award-winning journalist Paul McGeough on how the failed assassination of one Hamas leader changed the course of Mideast politics.

Iran, nuclear weapons, and the Middle East. Is it never going to happen? Or is the US ready to accept, and put up what Hillary Clinton calls a “defense umbrella”?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Obama. Two countries, two new leaders, two agendas. We’ll look at what’s next for the U.S. and Israel.

A Palestinian doctor from Gaza lost three daughters when Israel invaded, and still wants to talk peace. We’ll talk with him.

As Israel presses its war on Hamas, we’ll look at the Arab world’s reaction to the dire situation in Gaza, and what it means for the Middle East.

Israeli, Palestinian, and U.S. analysts on what’s next for Gaza — and the Middle East.

Missiles and sabers rattling in the Middle East: Iranian. Israeli. American. We ask where it’s headed, and where Washington really stands on the possibility of war with Iran

By the Hebrew calendar, today marks the 60th anniversary of the creation of Israel in 1948. And Israel has been celebrating, with picnics and parties and warplanes on display.
Of course, Arabs call the events of 1948 the “naqba” — or catastrophe.
But it’s Israel’s birthday. We’ll observe today with one of the hottest writers of a [...]

Through nearly 20 years of wild ups and downs, Aaron David Miller was in the middle of American efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace in the Middle East. He saw the good, the bad, and the ugly of our efforts, and theirs.
Now he’s out of the bubble, and talking. Very frankly. About how Americans have lost [...]

The last time Israelis and Palestinians sat down at an American conference table to talk peace — seven long and bloody years ago — the Middle East was a different place.
Today, as the old adversaries meet in Annapolis, Maryland — along with the U.S. and dozens of other countries, including most of the Arab world [...]