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Martin Sherman

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.

Ana Kasparian speaks onstage during the 2019 Politicon at Music City Center on Oct. 26, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Politicon.
Column
An ominous cloud of un-American invective
The resurgence of anti-Israel rhetoric in U.S. discourse reflects deeper and troubling currents in American political culture.
Mar. 17, 2026
Martin Sherman
Masked members of Hamas
Column
The deradicalization of Gaza and other myths
Feb. 19, 2026
Martin Sherman
Palestinians in Gaza
Column
Much to worry about
Jan. 14, 2026
Martin Sherman
Opinion
The deadly detriments of a doctrine of defense
Unless the violence in Gaza is terminated permanently, Israel may face the grim prospect of the Negev being depopulated by Jews who will abandon the region for safer locations.
Jun. 17, 2019
Martin Sherman
Manama, the capital of Bahrain. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Bahrain economic conference failure foretold
The reason for Arab hostility in general and of the Palestinian-Arabs in particular is not rooted in economic deprivation.
May. 31, 2019
Martin Sherman
Israel’s Iron Dome system launches a missile to intercept a rocket coming from Gaza. Photo by Nehemia Gershuni-Aylho.
Opinion
Cracks in the (Iron) Dome?
One of the reasons advanced for the Iron Dome’s ostensibly diminished capacity was the intensity of the barrages fired at Israel concentrated within a short time period.
May. 24, 2019
Martin Sherman
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the PLO executive committee in Ramallah on Aug. 7, 2016. Photo by Flash90.
Opinion
Let the Palestinian Authority collapse
Oslo has brought nothing positive to Israel. None of the promises of sweeping benefits by its proponents have been fulfilled, while virtually all the dangers, of which its opponents warned, did materialize.
May. 3, 2019
Martin Sherman
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
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