Swapan Dasgupta
Five hundred days after the October 7 attack, Israeli hostages are coming home as part of a fragile peace deal. Swapan Dasgupta travels across an Israel where hope is tempered with existential anxiety. A dispatch
America holds the key that can end the war in Gaza and bring the remaining Israeli hostages home
Can Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority govern Gaza when Hamas is gone?
The US president’s muscular diplomacy cannot hide America’s lost standing in the Middle East