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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.

A map posted by Yamina Party member Naftali Bennett, reportedly showing what Israel and the Palestinian Authority will look like under the Trump administration's Mideast peace plan. Source: Screenshot.
Opinion
The imperative to annex; the irrelevance of innocence
Annexation (or “extension of sovereignty,” as semantic purists prefer) would make a self-governing Palestinian-Arab entity unattainable. It is difficult to conceive of any other measure that could do more to bring home to the Palestinians that their hostile endeavor is futile.
May. 24, 2020
Martin Sherman
Daniel Pipes (www.DanielPipes.org, click photo above to download) is president of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
Opinion
Pipes vs. Pipes in ‘The New York Times’
He takes a very robust stance in negating specific courses of action—annexation and incentivized Arab emigration—designed to achieve his prescribed victory, leaving readers somewhat baffled as to why.
May. 18, 2020
Martin Sherman
Israelis watch a Supreme Court session on petitions filed against the proposed government, outside the Knesset, April 3, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Opinion
Judicial overreach: Are the chickens coming home to roost?
The belief that the law is being used (or rather, abused) as a weapon to advance a political doctrine that has failed to win support at the polls has taken root across diverse segments of Israeli society.
May. 11, 2020
Martin Sherman
Opinion
‘Haaretz:’ One outrage too far
Imagine the horror of it! A Jewish grandmother having the macabre desire to sit with her grandkids at a Shabbat table.
May. 1, 2020
Martin Sherman
Blue and White Party election posters show leader Benny Gantz and Likud head Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Israel's third round of elections within a year, Feb. 18, 2020. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Opinion
The real paradox of US-Diaspora relations
Rabbi Eric Yoffie offers a venomous brew of self-contradictions, non sequiturs and flights of fancy with a toxic tirade against Benjamin Netanyahu and indirectly against Israeli society as a whole.
Apr. 18, 2020
Martin Sherman
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit: Gili Yaari and Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Opinion
Netanyahu and the ‘art of the possible’
What once seemed his best option may, in fact, be his worst.
Apr. 5, 2020
Martin Sherman
Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein gives a press statement in Israel's parliament in Jerusalem on Jan. 12, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Edelstein draws a line in the sand
His actions foiled, at the 11th hour, an egregious endeavor to set up a minority government dependent on the anti-Zionist Joint Arab List.
Apr. 3, 2020
Martin Sherman
Blue and White Party head Benny Gantz holds a press conference at Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan on March 7, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Opinion
Back from the brink
Until Benny Gantz threw his political lot in with the right-wing coalition, it would be little exaggeration to say that the entire Zionist endeavor was poised on a knife edge.
Mar. 29, 2020
Martin Sherman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem on Jan. 1, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Why Netanyahu must not step down
If the Israeli prime minister is forced to do so under the weight of these “dubious” (to be charitable) indictments, then it will be a mortal blow to the fabric of Israeli democracy.
Mar. 20, 2020
Martin Sherman
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz speaks at faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Nov. 11, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Opinion
No, not all votes are equal
Blue and White persists in an obsessive effort to include the inimical Joint Arab List in determining the fate of the Jewish nation-state.
Mar. 14, 2020
Martin Sherman
Joint Arab List leader Ayman Odeh (center) and party members Ahmad Tibi (left) and Mtanes Shehadeh arrive for a meeting at the Knesset on Sept. 22, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
March 2 election results: Fickle, faithless, feckless
Beyond making a covenant with a party that not only undisguisedly supports Israel’s most vehement enemies but openly denies its status as a Jewish state, Blue and White has castigated party members who insist on honoring its election pledges.
Mar. 10, 2020
Martin Sherman
Ayman Odeh
Opinion
Time to bar the Joint Arab List
Even a cursory perusal of the official platforms of the alliance reflects a stark rejection of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Feb. 10, 2020
Martin Sherman
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