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Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman spent seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli defense establishment. He is the founder of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a member of the Habithonistim-Israel Defense & Security Forum (IDSF) research team, and a participant in the Israel Victory Project.

Opinion
Re-establishing Jewish sovereignty
The election results underscore just how tenuous relying on elected politicians to promote and implement any initiative for the extension of Jewish sovereignty across the 1967 Green Line can be.
Apr. 15, 2019
Martin Sherman
A view from the Golan Heights overlooking the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret). Credit: R. Ertov via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Trump’s decree on the Golan: A moral and practical imperative
It was only obdurate Syrian rejectionism that prevented Israel from committing a strategic error of epic proportions.
Apr. 8, 2019
Martin Sherman
Members of the Al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad during a military march in the town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, on Nov. 15, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
Gaza disaster foretold
As recent history has demonstrated, Israel can only determine who rules Gaza if it rules it itself. For even if Hamas is toppled, there is no guarantee that its successor will be any less irksome.
Mar. 31, 2019
Martin Sherman
The Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Israel’s High Court: When legality loses its legitimacy
When judicial rulings are overwhelmingly at odds with public perception of common sense and justice, it cannot but lose the very credibility imperative for it to function.
Mar. 24, 2019
Martin Sherman
Palestinians cross the Kalandia checkpoint on their way into Jerusalem June 10, 2016. Credit: Flash90.
Opinion
The ‘depraved indifference’ of the two-state paradigm
In light of the grim precedents provided by previous land-for-peace experiments, together with the no less grim trends in much of Arab society in general and Palestinian society in particular, continued insistence on this fatally flawed formula is both gravely irrational and grossly irresponsible.
Mar. 7, 2019
Martin Sherman
Professor Alan Dershowitz speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, Dec. 11, 2016. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Opinion
Will the ‘deep-state’ destroy democracy?
Indeed, it is perhaps the very success of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that has generated such raw rancor against him.
Mar. 4, 2019
Martin Sherman
Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid of the Blue and White Party make a joint a statement in Tel Aviv on Feb. 21, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Opinion
Gantz and Lapid: A fragile, directionless, ad hoc political concoction
Of course, the purported electoral appeal of the Blue & White line up is that it included three former IDF chiefs of staff (Gantz, Ya’alon and Ashkenazi). However, there is great doubt as to both how much of a political asset former generals really are, and just how much political acumen they display once elected.
Feb. 24, 2019
Martin Sherman
Palestinian protesters during clashes with the Israel Defense Forces following a demonstration along the border with Israel in the southern Gaza Strip, on Jan. 18, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Column
The 2019 Intelligence Assessment: The policy implications for Gaza
The penury in Gaza is not the cause of enmity towards the Jewish state. It’s enmity towards the Jewish state that’s the cause of penury in Gaza.
Feb. 15, 2019
Martin Sherman
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a joint press conference with Yoav Galant, Newly appointed Israeli Minister of Immigrant Absorption at the Kneeset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on January 9, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Opinion
Unilateral concessions: The latent agenda for Israel’s April elections
The rivalrous political alignments is still likely to be shaped by differing attitudes towards the Palestinian Arabs, the territories in Judea and Samaria and the fate of the Jewish settlements, rather than on issues such as education, transport or health services.
Feb. 10, 2019
Martin Sherman
Trump, Netanyahu
Opinion
Will Trump’s Mideast deal naturalize Palestinians in Arab countries?
This salutary U.S. initiative has the potential to rescind the recognition of the bulk of the Palestinian diaspora as “refugees.”
Feb. 6, 2019
Martin Sherman
Nakba
Opinion
Benny Morris: An unlikely proponent of incentivized Arab emigration
There is a policy paradigm that addresses both geographic perils of the two-state and the demographic perils of the one-state.
Feb. 3, 2019
Martin Sherman
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
The emerging inevitability of the Palestinian paradigm
The dismantling of UNRWA, the naturalization of stateless Palestinian residents in Arab countries and the emigration of Palestinians from Judea-Samaria and Gaza are slowly emerging as realistic outcomes.
Jan. 27, 2019
Martin Sherman
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