Israel

Policy

Snowden: NSA Helps Israel By Spying on Gaza

The relationship has, on at least one occasion, entailed the covert payment of a large amount of cash to Israeli operatives.

Reason Staff | 8.4.2014 8:00 AM

World

UN, US Condemn Israeli Strike That Hit School

Israeli forces deny intentionally targeting the site

Reason Staff | 8.3.2014 5:11 PM

World

Israel Won't Participate in New Cease-Fire Talks

Says there is "no point"

Reason Staff | 8.2.2014 1:09 PM

World

Gaza 'Peace' Goes to Shit. Israeli Soldiers Killed and Captured.

Are you surprised?

Reason Staff | 8.1.2014 7:25 PM

Policy

Seriously, What Is John Kerry Doing?

We have either an incompetent secretary of state or a momentous shift in Middle East policy.

David Harsanyi | 8.1.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Anthony Fisher Talking Israel-Gaza on HuffPost Live Today at 1030am ET

Anthony Fisher | 8.1.2014 10:11 AM

World

Friday Funnies: John Kerry's Peace Mission

Chip Bok | 8.1.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

The Battered Israeli Anti-War Movement

Anthony Fisher | 7.31.2014 5:15 PM

Israel

Netanyahu Vows to Destroy Hamas Tunnels

Israel calls up 16,000 reservists

Reason Staff | 7.31.2014 2:00 PM

Culture

David Frum, Gaza Truther

A pundit's paranoia.

Jesse Walker | 7.31.2014 8:05 AM

Israel

Israeli Newspaper Publishes Alleged Transcript of Tense Phone Call Between Obama and Netanyahu; Doesn't Resemble Reality, NSC Tweets

Ed Krayewski | 7.29.2014 3:47 PM

World

Israel Targets Hamas Facilities in Gaza

Attempts to cripple the militant organization.

Reason Staff | 7.29.2014 2:55 PM

Politics

Millennials Less Sympathetic to Israel Than Older Americans

Zenon Evans | 7.29.2014 12:35 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Penn Jillette, David Boaz, and Michael Weiss; Israel Diplomacy, V.A. Reform, Immigration, Rand Paul's Minority Outreach, Belated Legalization Editorializing, and Sexy Aftershow!

Matt Welch | 7.28.2014 8:12 PM

John Kerry

America No Deus Ex Machina: John Kerry Can't Even Get a Truce Between Israel and Hamas

Ed Krayewski | 7.28.2014 5:01 PM

World

Israeli Strike Hits Gaza Hospital

Reason Staff | 7.28.2014 11:25 AM

Israel

Ed Krayewski Talking Israel-Hamas Conflict on The Alan Nathan Show

Ed Krayewski | 7.25.2014 5:45 PM

Israel

Israel Rejects Ceasefire Plan

as death toll rises

Reason Staff | 7.25.2014 3:20 PM

World

Palestinians Accuse Israel of War Crimes in Gaza

Officials filed a complaint Friday to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Reason Staff | 7.25.2014 12:50 PM

World

U.S. Airlines Again Free to Fly to Israel

FAA lifts ban.

Reason Staff | 7.24.2014 6:11 PM

World

Israeli Forces Kill At Least 15 People in Shelling of U.N. School in Gaza

The Israeli military had no immediate comment.

Reason Staff | 7.24.2014 12:57 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Red Meat Wednesday With Ron Paul, Peter Suderman, Maggie McNeill and More, Talking About War, Obamacare, the V.A., Prostitution, and Pot

Matt Welch | 7.23.2014 6:17 PM

Policy

The Public Turns Against War

In poll after poll, Americans reject policies that might put U.S. troops in harm's way.

Jesse Walker | 7.23.2014 4:31 PM

Israel

FAA Extends Ban on Flights to Israel Over Gaza Rockets by 24 Hours

Unfriendly skies

Reason Staff | 7.23.2014 3:28 PM

Israel

John Kerry in Israel, Yet Again

Whole lot of talking, again

Reason Staff | 7.23.2014 8:00 AM

Israel

Gaza and the Horrors of Governments

Governments war, people die

Ed Krayewski | 7.22.2014 5:00 PM

Israel

Gaza: Soldier Goes Missing, Kerry Pushes for Cease-Fire

The disappearance raised the possibility that the soldier had been captured by Hamas -- a nightmare scenario for Israel.

Reason Staff | 7.22.2014 2:30 PM

World

Tel Aviv-Bound Delta Flight Turns Around After Rocket Lands Near Israel's Main Airport

Reason Staff | 7.22.2014 12:05 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: MH-17, Israel-Hamas, Immigration Kids, Ending the Fed, Cigarette Chokeholds, Net Roots Comedy, Nanny-State Shopping Carts, John Bolton, Aftershow and More!

Matt Welch | 7.21.2014 8:21 PM

John Kerry

Benjamin Netanyahu Had to Tell John Kerry "This is Not Vietnam"

Ed Krayewski | 7.21.2014 3:14 PM

Policy

You're Paying for That War in Gaza

Don't ask whether the U.S. will get involved—ask how it's involved already.

Jesse Walker | 7.21.2014 1:26 PM

Israel

Gaza Death Toll Passes 300

UN warns of humanitarian crisis.

Reason Staff | 7.19.2014 10:16 AM

Ukraine

Obama Calls for Ceasefire in Ukraine, Worried About Escalation in Gaza

It was time to talk again

Ed Krayewski | 7.18.2014 1:00 PM

Israel

Israel Says It's Sending Ground Troops Into Gaza

Fighting resumes after short truce

Reason Staff | 7.17.2014 4:07 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Unsustainable Debt, Chaotic Immigration, Mideast Turmoil, Fracking Earthquakes, Comcast Harassment, NASA Aliens, California Dissolution, Bitcoin Legalization, Lois Lerner II, and Online Aftershow

Matt Welch | 7.15.2014 7:53 PM

World

Israel and Hamas Consider Egyptian Ceasefire Proposal

The plan reportedly requires a de facto demilitarization of Gaza

J.D. Tuccille | 7.14.2014 5:35 PM

World

Palestinian Body Count Tops 100 as Israel Responds to Rockets With Escalating Airstrikes and People on Both Sides Plead for Peace

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.11.2014 11:27 AM

World

Israel Intensifies Airstrikes on Gaza as Hamas Rockets Continue to Fly Over Tel Aviv

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.9.2014 11:31 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Immigrant Kids, Israel vs. Hamas, War on Women, Berkeley 'Free' Pot, Political Dynasties, Welfare vs. Jobs, Transparency Advocates vs. Obama, Plus Aftershow!

Matt Welch | 7.8.2014 8:24 PM

World

Ground War Threatens as Rockets Fall and Israel Retaliates

Civilians targeted by both sides in latest violence.

J.D. Tuccille | 7.8.2014 6:03 PM

World

The Real Problem With Kerry's 'Apartheid' Myth

The demography apocalypse isn't happening in Israel, and even if it were, it would have absolutely nothing to do with today's peace negotiations.

David Harsanyi | 5.2.2014 1:30 PM

The Independents

Tonight on The Independents: Donald Sterling Controversy, Rep. Darrell Issa, Rep. Jared Polis, Mike Baker, John Kerry's 'Apartheid,' Plus After-Show (Then Vape-in)

Matt Welch | 4.28.2014 7:31 PM

John Kerry

John Kerry Pushing 'Compromise' in Peace Talks Israel Suspended After Fatah-Hamas Unity Deal

Talk is cheap

Ed Krayewski | 4.25.2014 11:21 AM

Syria

UNICEF: Syria One of the Most Dangerous Places For Children — Syria News Roundup

Estimates that 5.5 million have been affected by the ongoing civil war

Ed Krayewski | 3.11.2014 8:00 AM

World

Palestinian Workers at West Bank Soda Stream Factory Say They Don't See the Big Deal, They Like Their High Wages

Oxfam told Scarlet Johansson not to appear in Soda Stream ads, so she quit Oxfam

Reason Staff | 2.4.2014 12:15 PM

Free Speech

The Folly of Anti-Boycott Laws

Using the power of the purse to punish a point of view

Jesse Walker | 2.4.2014 10:01 AM

Culture

Scarlett Johansson Stepping Down as Oxfam Ambassador After Outcry Over Relationship With Israeli Soda Company

At-home soda company has a factory in the West Bank

Reason Staff | 1.30.2014 8:45 AM

World

Netanyahu After Meeting With Kerry: Not Evicting a Single Community, From Jordan Valley, Elsewhere

At Davos

Reason Staff | 1.24.2014 7:00 PM