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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.

Rather than side unreservedly with Israel after the brutally barbaric onslaught against it, the Democratic Party and the Biden administration chose to take unprecedented measures against the elected government of a friendly nation.
The French Foreign Ministry advanced two claims as the rationale for its decision to support the ICC, both equally risible and ridiculous.
The plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is the result of, not the reason for, their smoldering antisemitism.
Israel seeks to minimize harm to non-combatants, while Hamas seeks to maximize it as a propaganda tool.
Under the Biden administration, important foreign policy interests are being sacrificed to domestic politics.
The current government is not unblemished, but it could be and has been worse.
The historical record bodes ill for initiatives to engineer a “Pax Israeliana” between Israel and its Arab adversaries.
Radical terrorism is an expression of Palestinian Arab society, not an imposition on it.