Into the Fray: Elections: Why now is not the time

March 28, 2024 by  

When Israeli voters next go to the polls over what led to the grim events of Oct. 7, their choices must not be driven by uninformed rumour, ill-informed speculation, and misinformed emotion. Read more

Into the Fray: Reason, Reasonableness & Realpolitik

February 25, 2024 by  

Under Biden, important foreign policy interests are being sacrificed domestic ones. Read more

INTO THE FRAY: Comparing Coalitions

February 9, 2024 by  

While the current coalition is far from unblemished, things could be worse—and have been recently, Read more

Into the Fray: Incredible imbecility

January 17, 2024 by  

The historical record bodes ill for initiatives to engineer a Pax Israeliana (an Israel-induced peace) between Israel and its Arab adversaries. Read more

INTO THE FRAY: Gaza – A gigantic shift in the Overton window

November 15, 2023 by  

What once was unthinkable is now moving to the centre of mainstream thought. Read more

Into the Fray: Gaza – misconceptualising the conflict; miscomprehending the enemy

October 29, 2023 by  

There is a prevailing myth that the general population in Gaza is the hapless victim of its radical leadership. This is demonstrably false. Read more

INTO THE FRAY: A sense of betrayal

August 25, 2023 by  

Past deeds of heroism are no justification for present acts of subversion. Read more

Into the Fray: Distorting the Declaration

August 14, 2023 by  

The focus of Israel’s Declaration of Independence is overwhelmingly on Jewish sovereignty and political independence in the ancestral Jewish homeland—not on liberal democratic governance. Read more

Into the fray: D-Y-S-T-O-P-I-A!!

July 19, 2023 by  

The opponents of the proposed judicial reform are not defending liberal democracy, but promoting Orwellian dystopia. Read more

Into the Fray: A Constitution -The “excuse du jour”

July 11, 2023 by  

An article by Martin Sherman. Read more

Judicial reform: An urgent imperative

July 5, 2023 by  

For months Israel has been engulfed in a tumultuous public dispute in the titanic clash between the advocates of a direly needed reform of the country’s system of law enforcement on the one hand, and its increasingly strident opponents on the other. Read more

Judicial reform: An urgent imperative

May 23, 2023 by  

For months Israel has been engulfed in a tumultuous public dispute in the titanic clash between the advocates of a direly needed reform of the country’s system of law enforcement on the one hand, and its increasingly strident opponents on the other. Read more

The 2019 Intelligence Assessment: The policy implications for Gaza

February 17, 2019 by  

Military assessment warns of high risk of war with Gaza — The Times of Israel, Feb. 13, 2019

Israeli military report predicts high probability of clashes in Gaza … in 2019 — i24News, Feb. 13, 2019

Chief of Staff: Prepare for Gaza conflict — Israel National News, Feb. 13, 2019

Intelligence assessment for 2019: IDF prepares for confrontation with Gaza — Channel 20News, Feb. 13, 2019 Read more

Israel needs a new policy in Gaza

November 14, 2018 by  

The escalation in the violence emanating from Gaza on the very day after Israel permitted the transfer of millions of Qatari-sourced dollars into the coastal enclave underscores the futility of persisting with conventional wisdom.  Read more

Gaza: Lieberman gets an ‘F’

August 12, 2018 by  

Shortly after Avigdor Lieberman was appointed Israeli Defence Minister, two Palestinian-Arab terrorists cut down almost a dozen customers at a well-known coffee shop located a few hundred yards from the Ministry of Defence and Israel Defence Forces’ headquarters in Tel Aviv, killing four and wounding the rest…writes Martin Sherman/JNS. Read more

Into the fray: Gaza – A “simple” solution

June 4, 2018 by  

Denying—or delaying—the inevitable does not make it any less inevitable, only more costly…writes Martin Sherman. Read more