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Columns
December 2023
The Hostages Held in Gaza –
And Israel’s Contradictory Impulses
There is nothing rational, let alone normative, about a situation where a terror group and its affiliates took 240 people...
Columns
December 2023
At Dawn They Slept
The best defense is a good offense. Or is it, really? October 7, 2023, the costliest day in Israel’s history, provides a...
Essays
December 2023
Why is It So Difficult for Israel to Decipher Hamas?
As they were marching towards Jerusalem, the knights of the First Crusade lay siege to the city of Antioch in southern...
Essays
November 2023
Anti-Israel Activism in American Universities II
Middle Eastern Studies and Israel Studies
>> Read part I: The Advent of Anti-Israel Sentiment on Campus
In Part I, I described the rise of...
Essays
November 2023
Anti-Israel Activism in American Universities I
The Advent of Anti-Israel Sentiment on Campus
Kol Yisrael Arevim Zeh Bazeh.[ “All Israel is bound one to the other,” Jewish legal principle of the Talmud.]...
Essays
November 2023
The US College Campus as a Long-term Strategic Threat to Israel, the US and Global Stability
By now it’s clear to anyone paying attention that many American college campuses have since October 7 become hotbeds of...
Essays
November 2023
The Intelligence Failure of October 7 – Roots and Lessons
Hamas' sudden attack on the kibbutzim and the towns neighboring the Gaza Strip caught the IDF and the country by total...
Essays
November 2023
The Hamas-Iran Relationship
In the weeks since the Hamas massacre on October 7, pundits have debated whether or not Iran helped Hamas develop the plan...
Essays
November 2023
Iran’s “Controlled Insurgency” against the US in Syria and Iraq
In the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7th and during Israel’s counter-offensive into Gaza,...
Essays
November 2023
Three Weeks of Ground War in Gaza
On Saturday, November 18, Israel’s war in Gaza reached its 43rd day and the ground offensive in Gaza has now...
