Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- March 17,, 2015

Adam Chandler, The Atlantic: A New Dawn for Bibi?



Exit polls show a coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the most likely upshot of Israel's elections.


According to preliminary exit polls, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party scored enough seats in Israel's Tuesday elections that another term as premier is likely for him. Defying some expectations that Netanyahu had lost ground to the center-left Zionist Union Party, Likud came out either tied or ahead in three television exit polls on Tuesday evening in Israel.

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- March 17,, 2015

Israeli Exit Polls: Netanyahu is Re-Elected -- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary



Bibi Declares Victory, but the Drama in Israel Is Just Getting Started -- Joshua Keating, Slate



Syria, Iraq, and the Specter of Chemical Warfare -- Noah Gordon, The Atlantic



To Defeat ISIS, Iraq Forced to Accept Iran's 'Suffocating Embrace' -- Paul D. Shinkman, US News and World Report



Turkey's Secret Proxy War in Libya? -- Jonathan Schanzer, National Interest



Meeting the Houthis - and their enemies -- Safa AlAhmad, BBC



Iran's ayatollahs spring a surprise -- Gareth Smyth, The Guardian



China's Secret Plan to Track Militants and Bring Them Home -- Bloomberg



Vladimir Putin’s absence proves chaos will be his only successor -- Masha Gessen, Reuters



Overblown: Russia's Empty Nuclear Sabre-Rattling -- Steven Pifer, National Interest



Why Pentagon is hesitant to arm Ukraine -- Anna Mulrine, CSM



Lithuania prepares for a feared Russian invasion -- Ola Cichowlas, Reuters



Venezuela: Drums of War or Pipes of Peace? -- Juan de Onis, World Affairs



U.S. Is Awash in Oil, But What About the Rest of the World? -- Nicole Friedman, WSJ



An absent America is the worst of all possible worlds -- Faisal Al Yafai, The National