Anchoring the Jewish state’s importance for both Europe and the Middle East.

The lessons of a teapot tempest.

The real reason the prime minister’s visit to the UAE was canceled.

Against a simplistic narrative.

Diplomatically, not legally.

An official visit was about more than gas pipelines.

Anti-Semitism, Islamism, and geopolitics stand in the way.

An American priority.

Israel’s role in the world at large is bigger than it has ever been.

What the naysayers fail to understand.

A kinship that is hard to put into words.

Iran has been providing rebels with arms and training.

Why this normalization is different from all other normalizations.

Pressure from Islamists at home—and from Iran.