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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.

Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip, Feb. 26, 2024. Credit: IDF.
Column
Misplaced moral outrage on civilian casualties
Israel seeks to minimize harm to non-combatants, while Hamas seeks to maximize it as a propaganda tool.
Apr. 11, 2024
Martin Sherman
Biden
Opinion
Reason, reasonableness and realpolitik
Under the Biden administration, important foreign policy interests are being sacrificed to domestic politics.
Feb. 29, 2024
Martin Sherman
Lapid, Bennett
Column
Comparing coalitions
The current government is not unblemished, but it could be and has been worse.
Feb. 14, 2024
Martin Sherman
Birzeit University
Opinion
Incredible imbecility
The historical record bodes ill for initiatives to engineer a “Pax Israeliana” between Israel and its Arab adversaries.
Jan. 21, 2024
Martin Sherman
Israel Air Force strikes on terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, Oct. 28, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Israel misconceptualized the Palestinian Arab collective
Radical terrorism is an expression of Palestinian Arab society, not an imposition on it.
Oct. 30, 2023
Martin Sherman
Demonstrators block Route 1, the main highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and clash with police near Ein Hemed, July 11, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Opinion
A sense of betrayal
Past deeds of heroism are no justification for present acts of subversion.
Aug. 27, 2023
Martin Sherman
Israeli founding father and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion declares independence beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism, at the Tel Aviv Museum, today Independence Hall, on May 14, 1948. Photo by Zoltan Kluger/GPO.
Opinion
Distorting the Declaration
The focus of Israel’s Declaration of Independence is overwhelmingly on Jewish sovereignty and political independence, not liberal democracy.
Aug. 13, 2023
Martin Sherman
Judicial Reform Protests
Opinion
Dystopia!
Opponents of judicial reform are not defending liberal democracy, but Orwellian dystopia.
Jul. 19, 2023
Martin Sherman
Protesters block Route 1 between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem over the Israeli government's judicial reforms, Feb. 9, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
An Israeli constitution is just an excuse
Opponents of judicial reform are making an offer they cannot deliver, nor do they wish to.
Jul. 11, 2023
Martin Sherman
Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid at the Jerusalem District Court, June 12, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Yair Lapid, thinking the unthinkable
Who can be blamed for allowing “heretical” alternative explanations to enter one’s mind?
Jun. 20, 2023
Martin Sherman
Israeli Supreme Court
Opinion
Mika is malicious, mendacious and misleading
Typical of the deluge of Orwellian gobbledygook opposing judicial reform is a recent video by Mika Almog, granddaughter of Shimon Peres
May. 15, 2023
Martin Sherman
An anti-government protest outside a Tel Aviv retirement home, March 16, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Opinion
Obviating elections
If the so-called “champions of democracy” succeed in obstructing the judicial reforms, democratic rule will be replaced by mob rule
Mar. 26, 2023
Martin Sherman
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