Early Edition September 17. 2025

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.Published September 17, 2025 on Just Security. ICYMI: yesterday on Just Security:U.N. Commission Finds That Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza: What Does It Mean? By Rebecca HamiltonAt the Coming U.N. Leaders Meetings: Existential Questions on the U.S. Role, Israel-Palestine, and the U.N. Itself By Richard GowanStriking Hamas in Qatar: “Unwilling or Unable”? By Michael Schmitt