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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.

Israelis protest in Tel Aviv against the government's judicial reform plan on March 4, 2023. Photo by Gili Yaari /Flash90.
Opinion
The real reason for the left’s white-hot fury
The last vestige of the left’s undemocratic power is threatened, a prospect it views with a mixture of horror and disbelief.
Mar. 6, 2023
Martin Sherman
Anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv waving Palestinian flags. Jan. 28, 2023. Source: Twitter/Moti Kastel.
Opinion
Conspicuous by their … presence
Palestinian flags on unabashed and unhindered display at recent demonstrations against judicial reform tear off the mask of hypocrisy.
Feb. 5, 2023
Martin Sherman
Israeli Supreme Court
Opinion
Death, courtesy of the Supreme Court
Israeli judicial reform is an inevitable result of the ongoing erosion of public trust in the legal system.
Jan. 29, 2023
Martin Sherman
A robotic vehicle and a tank maneuver as part of the IDF's International Operational Innovation Conference at the Tze’elim Base in the Negev last week. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.
Opinion
Peace: A dictatorial and deceptive word
Israel is continually backing away from conflicts it can win, while risking backing itself into a conflict that it cannot.
Jan. 16, 2023
Martin Sherman
Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, March 9, 2016. Credit: Flash90.
Opinion
The perverse and perplexing paradox of Palestine
Why do professed liberals continue to support creating a state that would reject all the values they supposedly cherish?
Jan. 11, 2023
Martin Sherman
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, U.S. President Bill Clinton and PLO head Yasser Arafat at the signing of the Oslo Accords, Sept. 13, 1993. Photo by Vince Musi/The White House.
Opinion
‘Palestine’: Two countervailing hypotheses
Do the Palestinians genuinely wish to establish a state for themselves?
Dec. 18, 2022
Martin Sherman
Jerusalem Day celebrations at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, May 29, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Opinion
A tale of two narratives
The Zionist narrative has demonstrable validity over the counter-narrative of the Palestinian Arabs, and thus the Zionist narrative must prevail.
Dec. 11, 2022
Martin Sherman
The Judea and Samaria hills where Shiloh Winery is located. Credit: Wine on the Vine.
Opinion
The perils of Palestine
A Palestinian state would be a multi-dimensional menace to Israel.
Oct. 23, 2022
Martin Sherman
Rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli civilian populations on Aug. 7, 2022. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
Israel must take and hold Gaza indefinitely
There is no solution to terror and violence emanating from Gaza except to govern the territory itself.
Aug. 28, 2022
Martin Sherman
An illustration of Israeli and Ukrainian flags. Credit: ruskpp/Shutterstock.
Opinion
The Russia-Ukraine war proves that no one will come to Israel’s aid
International agreements that cede key strategic assets in exchange for vague “assurances” of future support are not worth the paper they’re written on.
Jun. 26, 2022
Martin Sherman
Lod Riots, 2021
Opinion
The fatal flaw in Israel’s strategic thinking
One of the reasons the conflict with the Palestinian Arabs has dragged is that Israel has failed to conceptualize the conflict accurately.
May. 29, 2022
Martin Sherman
The Nile River, Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea, contrasted by the desert nations of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Jordan, as seen from the International Space Station, June 19, 2019. Credit: NASA.
Opinion
The implications for Israel of a possible war over the Nile
The simmering conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia over the construction of a massive dam could have grave ramifications
May. 1, 2022
Martin Sherman
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