INTO THE FRAY: Something rotten in the land of the Tricolour?

While France is the origin of the principles of modern democracy, it has also shown a disturbing affinity for tyranny. Read more

INTO THE FRAY: Kamala’s unsavoury supporters

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

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

Today’s surging antisemitism—A perverse inversion of victim & victimizer Read more

INTO THE FRAY: Misplaced moral outrage-moronic, mendacious, or malevolent?

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

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

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

INTO THE FRAY: Comparing Coalitions

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

Into the Fray: Incredible imbecility

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

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

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

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

Into the Fray: Distorting the Declaration

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!!

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”

An article by Martin Sherman. Read more

Judicial reform: An urgent imperative

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

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

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

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’

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

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