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Special Edition: The War That Could Change the World
An explosion is seen during a missile attack in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 13, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg via AP Photo)
All you need to read to make sense of the conflict in the Middle East, with Niall Ferguson, Masih Alinejad, Amit Segal, Eli Lake, Matthew Continetti, and others.
By Bari Weiss
06.13.25 — Bari Weiss
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As I write these words, Israel is under attack by Iran. All of my friends in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are huddled with their families in bomb shelters. Some alarming eyewitness video showed missile impacts and interceptions in Tel Aviv and the surrounding area.

Iran promised a “bitter, painful” response—to what extent that promise will be fulfilled is what…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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