Martin Sherman: Israel has surged from success to success in virtually every field of human endeavour except in what might turn out to be the most vital: securing its long-term survival as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Martin Sherman: In order to allow non-belligerent Gazans to extricate themselves from their existing humanitarian crisis, they should be offered generous relocation grants to allow them and their dependents the opportunity to seek more prosperous and secure lives elsewhere.
Martin Sherman: Oslo has brought nothing positive to Israel. None of the promises of sweeping benefits by its proponents have been fulfilled, while virtually all the dangers, of which its opponents warned, did materialize.
Martin Sherman: The penury in Gaza is not the cause of enmity towards the Jewish state. It’s enmity towards the Jewish state that’s the cause of penury in Gaza.
Martin Sherman: If critics of the Nationality Bill have real concerns for the rights of non-Jewish minorities, the patriotic way to address them would be via a new Basic Law to protect them, not raucously denouncing the bill as “racist.”
Martin Sherman: In effect, all nationalism entails some form of discrimination because it gives priority to the cultural and national characteristics of one group over those of another.
Martin Sherman: Israel will only be democratic if it is Jewish, and it will only be Jewish if it is Zionist. Therefore, it will only be democratic if it is Zionist—i.e., if it is the nation-state of the Jewish people
Martin Sherman: After the end of each round of fighting, Hamas has managed, within a relatively short space of time, to enhance its offensive military capabilities dramatically.
Martin Sherman: Astonishingly, having been proved entirely justified in its condemnation of the dangerous defects of the “left’s” political credo, the “right” proceeded to embrace it.
