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1 month ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Daniel Byman |Natan Sachs |Jen Patja
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For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Natan Sachs, the Director of the Middle East Program of the Brookings Institution, to discuss Israel's turbulent domestic situation and the renewal of the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Daniel Byman |Natan Sachs |Jen Patja
For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with a panel of leading experts to discuss the recent ceasefire in Gaza, including: Natan Sachs, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution; Dan Byman, Professor at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace; and Dr. Dana El-Kurd, Professor at the University of Richmond.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
brookings.edu | Natan Sachs |Kevin Huggard
Editor's note: This piece is part of the Center for Middle East Policy’s Israel-Gaza interviews series, in which leading experts unpack the conflict via in-depth Q&As. On Wednesday, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire and hostage-for-prisoner release agreement.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Natan Sachs
The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Rafah is potentially a watershed moment in the year-long and extremely bloody war he sparked on October 7, 2023. It is unlike the deaths of any other Hamas leader in the past year. While Ismail Haniyeh was the official political head of Hamas, living a lavish life in Doha, it was Sinwar who was in charge on the ground in the Gaza Strip, where the organization’s governing and military power was concentrated.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Firas Maksad |Natan Sachs |Jen Patja
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Israel has hit Hezbollah very hard over the past few days, killing much of its senior leadership and eroding its capabilities. It has also displaced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese and now has ground forces in Lebanon. Iran has responded with a missile barrage against Israel, to which an Israeli response is widely expected.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Kori Schake |Natan Sachs
In a live recording on September 10, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes moderated a panel discussion featuring Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Fellow Scott R. Anderson, Co-Founder and Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator Dmitri Alperovitch, American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Kori Schake, and the Center for Middle East Policy Director and Brookings Senior Fellow Natan Sachs.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Natan Sachs
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress occurred on two different levels. There was the substance of the speech itself: a long, impassioned, and detailed defense of Israel as it faces a level of international opprobrium not seen in decades; and there was the political spectacle of the speech—for Israeli and American audiences alike. It was the spectacle that was the real reason it took place.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Natan Sachs
On Sunday, June 9, Israeli minister Benny Gantz, a member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet and Netanyahu’s main putative challenger for the position of prime minister, resigned from the government along with his fellow party member Gadi Eisenkot.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Benjamin Wittes |Natan Sachs |Jen Patja
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
Natan Sachs is a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. His work focuses on Israeli foreign policy, domestic politics, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and U.S.-Israeli relations. He is currently writing a book on Israeli grand strategy and its domestic origins.
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May 17, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Natan Sachs
On May 15, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant issued a dramatic challenge to his own prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Speaking for the military he oversees, Gallant, a retired general, described to the Israeli public a glaring lack of strategy in Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip and pointed explicitly to the man responsible: Netanyahu. He detailed how the security establishment had prepared plans for the “day after” Hamas was defeated in Gaza, only to be rebuffed by Netanyahu.
