Can a Bennett-Lapid government rise to the challenges facing the Jewish state?
A nervous Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett struggled for nearly an hour to deliver what was supposed to be a 10-minute address at one of the most contentious gatherings of Israel’s Knesset in modern history....
With Bennett at the helm, how will he steer the Bedouin, Negev and illegal...
Israel’s newly sworn-in Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has many landmines to navigate. One concerns land issues in Israel’s Negev Desert, specifically whether he will rein in unregulated Bedouin settlements that some say threaten to...
The Loss Of Need Today For Human Skills
The whole nature of human abilities, human skills is gradually being transformed as a result of modern technology. Three different kinds of transformation seem to be occurring. First of all, some kinds of abilities...
The anti-Semitism of Jean-Luc Mélenchon
In the first round of the French presidential election in 2017, nearly one in five voters marked their ballots for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the candidate of the newly formed far-left “La France Insoumise” (“France Rising”)...
Omar forces a difficult choice for Jewish Democrats
After a surge in violent anti-Semitism inspired in no small part by vicious attacks on Israel by members of their party’s left-wing, some Jewish Democrats have had enough. After Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) compared the United...
Living with Iran: Israel’s Strategic Imperative
This article was originally published on May 28, 2014
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In response to the almost inevitable Iranian nuclear bomb, Israel must suitably integrate a clear nuclear deterrence posture with multi-layered active defenses. This complex effort...
Can the Biden administration capitalize on an inexperienced Bennett-Lapid government?
With the likelihood that new leadership will be sworn in next week in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s departure from the role he has held for almost two decades has some worried about how...
Black Lives Matter Should Stick to Its Core Issue; Leave Israel Out of It
How does the Black Lives Matter movement find the time and energy to brand Israel as an apartheid and genocidal state and equate its policies with police brutality?
And why don’t any BLM members speak...
Politics, Law and the Triumph of Chaos
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world….”
-William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
Plus, ca’ change. “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” In world politics, anarchy is an...
Why the Shin Bet chief isn’t so hush-hush anymore
Enemies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were relieved, if not thrilled, when Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman broke his organization’s customary silence to bemoan the behavior of those virulently opposing the makeup of the coalition-in-formation.
“We...