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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi inspect a guard of honor on October 29, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
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A baby stroller, along with other personal belongings are left on the side of the road on October 10, 2023, in Kfar Aza, Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld via Getty Images)
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Israelis looks at a full lunar eclipse from Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus on December 10, 2011. (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images.)
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Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on May 5, 2024. (Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken speaks to families and supporters of the hostages held by Hamas outside a hotel in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 1, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech at the Yad LaBanim Memorial in Jerusalem on May 12, 2024. (Photo by Debbie Hill/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Liel Leibovitz
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Mike Watson
Fellow and Deputy Director, Center for Strategy and American Statecraft
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
