INTO THE FRAY: Kamala’s unsavoury supporters
September 30, 2024 by Martin Sherman
Recently, a distressed Twitter/X message from a well-known Israeli-Australian human rights jurist caught my eye. Read more
INTO THE FRAY: Fickle Feckless France- Egalite, fraternite …antisemitisme
June 9, 2024 by Martin Sherman
The French Foreign Ministry advanced two claims as the rationale for its decision to support the ICC—both equally risible and ridiculous. Read more
Into the Fray
May 27, 2024 by Martin Sherman
Today’s surging antisemitism—A perverse inversion of victim & victimizer Read more
INTO THE FRAY: Misplaced moral outrage-moronic, mendacious, or malevolent?
April 12, 2024 by Martin Sherman
Israel seeks to minimize civilian casualties, while Hamas seeks to maximise civilian casualties and use them as a propaganda tool. Read more
Into the Fray: Elections: Why now is not the time
March 28, 2024 by Martin Sherman
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 Martin Sherman
Under Biden, important foreign policy interests are being sacrificed domestic ones. Read more
INTO THE FRAY: Comparing Coalitions
February 9, 2024 by Martin Sherman
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 Martin Sherman
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 Martin Sherman
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 Martin Sherman
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 Martin Sherman
Past deeds of heroism are no justification for present acts of subversion. Read more
Into the Fray: Distorting the Declaration
August 14, 2023 by Martin Sherman
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 Martin Sherman
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 Martin Sherman
An article by Martin Sherman. Read more
Judicial reform: An urgent imperative
July 5, 2023 by Martin Sherman
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 Martin Sherman
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 Martin Sherman
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 Martin Sherman
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 Martin Sherman
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 Martin Sherman
Denying—or delaying—the inevitable does not make it any less inevitable, only more costly…writes Martin Sherman. Read more