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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.

The village of Duma from the west with the Jordan Valley in the background. Credit: Wikipedia.
Opinion
INSS’s puerile, preposterous proposal
It seems that if you have sufficient funds, there is no limit to the unmitigated nonsense you can promote in the guise of profound policy-oriented research.
Oct. 19, 2018
Martin Sherman
Einat Wilf, then a Knesset member for the Labor Party, addresses the Knesset on Oct. 15, 2012. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Opinion
Obsessing over Oslo: Einat Wilf in ‘The Atlantic’
For example, one might well ask why two-staters object so strenuously to the “settlements” and the “settlers”? After all, if genuine two-state peace is possible—as two-staters claim—they could certainly be a welcome source of employment for their Arab neighbors.
Oct. 7, 2018
Martin Sherman
U.S. President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 3, 2017. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.
Opinion
The rumored ‘ultimate deal’: Potential payoffs and possible pitfalls
Since the start of his presidency, Donald Trump has undertaken some bold, far-reaching measures that have potentially transformed the discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian impasse. These have all been favorable to Israel and undermine long-held Palestinians positions.
Sep. 23, 2018
Martin Sherman
Avi Gabbay, head of the Zionist Union alliance and the Labor Party, leads a Zionist Union meeting at the Israeli Knesset on Nov. 20, 2017. In the background is a photo of former Israeli prime minister and Labor leader Yitzhak Rabin. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Israel’s left as a jilted lover
The left in Israel is behaving like a person who cannot accept that the object of his love has chosen another in his stead.
Sep. 14, 2018
Martin Sherman
Israeli Arabs protest in central Tel Aviv against the new Nation-State Law, Aug. 11, 2018. Credit: The Arab Higher Monitoring Committee.
Opinion
My New Year appeal to Caroline Glick: Rethink the ‘Israeli solution’
So, while I completely concur with her that Israeli sovereignty must be extended from the “River to the Sea,” I call on her to endorse a vigorous program of incentivized emigration (a.k.a. Evacuation – Compensation) for the Arab residents in Judea-Samaria as the only non-“kinetic” policy prescription that can adequately address Israel’s geographic imperative and its demographic one—if it is to endure as the nation state of the Jewish people.
Sep. 7, 2018
Martin Sherman
English and Hebrew editions of the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz.” Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
‘Haaretz’ vs. Sherman: The anatomy of ‘fake news’
Had the newspaper wanted to give a fair portrayal of my policy proposal, instead of alluding to “Transfer,” the headline would have read “Evacuation-compensation for Arabs: An answer to Israel’s geographic and demographic imperatives.”
Aug. 23, 2018
Martin Sherman
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman
Opinion
Gaza: Déjà vu … again?
From recent reports on planned Israeli responses to events in Gaza, one might be excused for thinking that the late Shimon Peres had returned from the hereafter, reincarnated in the form of the allegedly hawkish Avigdor Lieberman.
Aug. 16, 2018
Martin Sherman
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman
Opinion
Gaza: Lieberman gets an ‘F’
Avigdor Lieberman’s appointment as Israeli Defense Minister ignited expectations of a qualitatively different approach to that of his predecessor—one discernibly more robust and resolute. Sadly, this was not to be.
Aug. 10, 2018
Martin Sherman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with the leader of the Druze community in Israel, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif (second from left), at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 27, 2018. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.
Opinion
Dangerously disloyal opposition?
If critics of the Nationality Bill have real concerns for the rights of non-Jewish minorities, the patriotic way to address them would be via a new Basic Law to protect them, not raucously denouncing the bill as “racist.”
Aug. 3, 2018
Martin Sherman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses participants at the 13th annual CUFI summit, held from July 23-24, 2018. Screenshot: YouTube.
Opinion
Arens, you’re wrong about the law
In effect, all nationalism entails some form of discrimination because it gives priority to the cultural and national characteristics of one group over those of another.
Aug. 1, 2018
Martin Sherman
Gaza terror arson threatening Israeli Highway 232. Source: Screenshot.
Opinion
Israel: Identifying the enemy as the enemy is not ‘racism’
Israeli security policy is driven by Arab enmity, not Arab ethnicity.
Jul. 29, 2018
Martin Sherman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Knesset Plenary Hall session ahead of the vote on Israel's nationality bill, which will solidify the foundation of a Jewish state for the Jewish people. July 18, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Opinion
The Nationality Law brouhaha: The failing of Jewish national will?
Israel will only be democratic if it is Jewish, and it will only be Jewish if it is Zionist. Therefore, it will only be democratic if it is Zionist—i.e., if it is the nation-state of the Jewish people
Jul. 22, 2018
Martin Sherman
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