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Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen

The 1990s interim agreements with the Palestinians are based on failed premises that have created terror hotbeds. It is time to chart a new path forward.
The ravages of recent flooding in Israel stem from a macro-level planning failure. This isn’t just a matter of flawed local planning, but a failure to account for Israel’s basic geographic conditions.
According to the IDF, to defend itself, Israel needs to control the entire area from the Jordan River to the Samarian hills to the west.
Having the audacity to use force, especially in a situation that hovers on the very real threshold of war, entails the risk of escalation, but also the potential to give Israel a prominent role in the crystallizing anti-Iran regional coalition.
The accumulation of threats that Israel faces and the fact these threats can emerge on multiple fronts simultaneously require both the IDF and the homefront to brace for the unexpected.
We need to aspire to an existence in the whole land of our forefathers—in all its fields and open spaces, not just in our gated “villas in the jungle.”
The rejection by Israeli intellectuals of the Jewish spiritual and political activism exemplified by the preaching and actions of Rabbi Akiva runs counter to the thinking of David Ben-Gurion.
The messianic aspects of Zionism and the project of building Israeli communities in the West Bank were not born in 1967.
We must not transform the Zionist dream into nothing more than a desire for a safe haven for persecuted Jews.