Outside the Beltway

The regime is not a -changin’.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Is no one thinking about the end state?

Now we know why it started when it did.

Are our columnists learning? (I think you know the answer).

More excerpts from excellent columns I’ve read.

Breaking news. Big if true.

“Major combat operations” are underway.

A bold proclamation.

The hostages have been released, but the war appears back on.

All 20 living hostages have been released and the bodies of others are slowly being returned.

A No masquerading as a Yes to Trump’s peace deal.

Netanyahu will take it.

The inevitable has finally arrived.

The seemingly inevitable next step.

Responding to tragedy with farce.

A long exposé misses the mark.

Maximalist claims are almost surely overstated.

Democrats are mostly condemning it and Republicans are divided.

Trump and Netanyahu do not see eye to eye on the matter.

The war is on.

A major escalation in Middle East tensions is forecast.

Will the Netanyahu government double down on its weakening of Iran?

A little ethnic cleansing coming right up.

More outrageous behavior.

Deadlnes make deals.

The fall of the Assad regime is the end of the beginning.

Peace, for a time.

Of leopards and faces.

Has the calculus of either side changed?

Is Sinwar’s assassination an opening?

Another one bites the dust.

After years of proxy battles, Israel and Iran are on the brink of a direct fight.

The leading scholar on the subject dissents.

Massive numbers are taking to the streets in protest.

Israeli forces recovered their bodies.

Another step closer to a regional war.

Running for President as Vice President is uniquely challenging.

The fight has now expanded to a third front.

The war cabinet is gone. He now owns the war completely.

The moderates are gone.

Joy of four returned safe is mixed with the reality of scores of dead Palestinians.

The President declares Hamas “no longer capable” of large-scale attack.

Some 45 are dead in what Israel calls a “tragic accident.”

The Israeli government has no plan. Its defense minister does.

Is Rafah the breaking point?

There is no obvious better state of the peace acceptable to both parties.

Neither side is willing to give up on its war aims just yet.