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Irwin J. Mansdorf

Irwin J. Mansdorf

Irwin J. (Yitzchak) Mansdorf, Ph.D., is a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, specializing in political psychology, and a member of the emergency division of IDF Homefront Command.

What a generational split among Republicans in the United States means for Israel and Jews.
One recurring example is the ability of an inferior military force to fight a superior one by resorting to tactics that the latter cannot and will not undertake.
For Israelis who remember the dark days following the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, this is a déjà vu moment: the collective blaming, polarization and delegitimization of whole sectors of society because of the behavior of a single fringe individual.
There is no way to achieve perfect “social distancing”—the refusers, deniers and conspiracy theorists will not be convinced by the evidence.