Category Politics

The Israel-Hamas hostage deal is not a ceasefire

The agreement is a pause, not a ceasefire. That distinction matters — a lot. Israeli artillery train their guns toward the Gaza Strip on November 21, 2023, in southern Israel. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at…

A timeline of Israel-Palestine peace negotiations

A timeline of the decades-long peace negotiations that came before the Israel-Hamas war. The signing of the Oslo Accords between then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then-Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat at the White House, on September 13, 1993.…