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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.

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit holds a press conference at the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem, announcing his decision that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will stand trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three different corruption cases, dubbed by police Case 1000, Case 2000 and Case 4000, Nov. 21, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Opinion
Indicting Netanyahu: The unintended consequences
The recent release of taped telephone conversations underscores the bitter irony that the politically motivated initiative to indict Netanyahu on contrived charges will end up undermining those who launched it.
Nov. 1, 2020
Martin Sherman
Judge Amy Coney Barrett delivers remarks after U.S. President Donald Trump announced her as his nominee for the Supreme Court, in the Rose Garden of the White House on Sept. 26, 2020. Credit: Andrea Hanks/The White House.
Opinion
Replacing RBG: Delinquent Democrats deserve no quarter
There is a bitter and infuriating irony in the fact that it was the Democrats themselves who committed the very transgressions they endeavored to attribute to their Republican adversaries.
Oct. 13, 2020
Martin Sherman
From left: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, U.S. President Bill Clinton and Palestine Liberation Organization head Yasser Arafat at the signing of the Oslo Accords on Sept. 13, 1993. Credit: Vince Musi/The White House.
Opinion
Oslo as political Kryptonite
For the Labor Party, the fall from the heights of political hegemony to the depth of political oblivion is a fitting fate for the perpetration of the Oslo Accords, which ran counter to every prevailing Zionist norm of the time.
Sep. 17, 2020
Martin Sherman
The U.S.-Israeli delegation arrives at Abu Dhabi International Airport on Aug. 31, 2020. Credit: Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem.
Opinion
Israel’s national imperative: ‘Keep your powder dry’
While the normalization with the UAE could definitely entail significant benefits for Israel, it is still somewhat premature to celebrate the onset of lasting amity—rather than enmity—in the region.
Sep. 6, 2020
Martin Sherman
Oslo Accords
Opinion
Why the ‘right’ insists on bringing knives to gunfights
Although it has ostensibly been in power for much of the post Oslowian era, it is clear that the “right” has not internalized the exigencies of political warfare.
Aug. 30, 2020
Martin Sherman
Flag of the UAE. Credit: Free Wallpaper.
Opinion
UAE-Israel pact: Sacrificing substance for ceremony?
The agreement is merely a prop in the choreography for a much bigger drama. It’s still early days to break open that champagne and celebrate.
Aug. 21, 2020
Martin Sherman
Israeli security forces. at the scene of a Palestinian car-ramming attack on soldiers in Mateh Binyamin in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), on March 4, 2019. Photo by STR/Flash90.
Opinion
Commanders against Israel’s sovereignty: Look us in the eye …
Even a cursory analysis of the “Commanders for Israel’s Security” plan, perversely titled “Security First,” will reveal that it is not a security plan composed by military experts, but a political manifesto drafted by amateur politicians.
Aug. 9, 2020
Martin Sherman
Peter Beinart
Opinion
Israel and the perverse paradox of Jewish ‘liberals’
Israel should be a source of pride for all Jews—but particularly for Jews who espouse liberal values of tolerance and pluralism, of individual liberty and of human advancement.
Jul. 22, 2020
Martin Sherman
A Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis. Credit: Andy Witchger via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
De-Americanizing America
Americans seem swept up in a movement bent on jettisoning a paradigm that brought resounding success, while embracing one that wrought failure wherever implemented.
Jul. 5, 2020
Martin Sherman
Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020, to hear a petition against the coalition agreement between the Blue and White and Likud parties. Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.
Opinion
Judicial overreach and the Israeli sovereignty imperative
Excessive intervention by the courts into what is seen as the purview of the legislature is likely to have some unintended consequences: Energizing the drive to extend Israeli sovereignty over Judea-Samaria—and sparking far-reaching judicial reform.
Jun. 15, 2020
Martin Sherman
Amiram Ben-Uliel, the main suspect in the July 2015 Duma arson murders in which three members of the Dawabshe family were killed, arrives at the Lod District Court in central Israel to hear his verdict, May 18, 2020. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/POOL.
Opinion
Duma guilt by conjecture?
The case comes with deeply troubling questions, which should be a source of grave concern to every fair-minded citizen of Israel and its advocates abroad.
Jun. 2, 2020
Martin Sherman
The Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 4, 2020. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.
Opinion
A choreographed coup with the law as a prop
The weight of public disapproval of what is perceived as arrogant judicial insensitivity to public sentiment is finally beginning to tell.
May. 28, 2020
Martin Sherman
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