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Amnon Lord

Amnon Lord is an Israeli journalist with the daily newspaper “Makor Rishon.” His articles and essays about media, film and politics have been published in “The Jerusalem Post,” “Mida,” “Azure,” “Nativ” and “Achshav.”

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan (left) with injured field commander and war strategist Ariel Sharon (center) during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The Israel Defense Forces Archive Pikiwiki Israel/Wikimedia Commons.

The Yom Kippur War showed us that statecraft matters

Wars and defeats can determine the fate of nations and states for generations.

Amnon Lord

October 4, 2022

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Photo by Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock.

Prevent the Iran deal by talking to the American public

The Iranians assess that Biden will not dare attack them, particularly in light of the Afghanistan fiasco.

Amnon Lord

August 24, 2022

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, March 9, 2022. Source: Isaac Herzog/Twitter.

Israel-Turkey rapprochement has an Iranian component

Iranian aggression on Turkish soil did not stop Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from scurrying to Tehran several weeks ago to meet his Iranian and Russian counterparts.

Amnon Lord

August 18, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden. Credit: POTUS/Twitter.

Biden’s mission is to restore Arab faith in the US

To get what he wants from the Saudis, Biden will have to make a major concession, because the Arabs now believe American words are cheap.

Amnon Lord

July 13, 2022

Outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot with incoming Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi during a handover ceremony at IDF Headquarters in Tel Aviv, on Jan. 15, 2019. Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

The new IDF chief of staff must bring with him a new way of thinking

The candidates are all up to the required standards of excellence, but they must not repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

Amnon Lord

June 19, 2022

Yamina MK Nir Orbach leaves the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem following a meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, June 12, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Orbach breaks right

Yamina is part of the political tradition of the Israeli religious right, which since 1975 has been the dominant factor in Israel’s lack of political stability.

Amnon Lord

June 15, 2022

(L-R) Israeli minister of Defense Benny Gantz, minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Minister of Justice Gideon Saar during a discussion on the "family reunification law", during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

The price of the Israeli government’s survival

A floundering, divided leadership opens the door to all sorts of pressures, but as usual, every failure is marketed as a success.

Amnon Lord

June 8, 2022

Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas at party headquarters in Tamra, on election night, March 23, 2021. Photo by Flash90.

Ra’am has thrown the Bennett government a lifeline, and it’s a problem

By saving Israel’s government coalition, the Ra'am Party sent a clear message that the Israeli government has surrendered to it.

Amnon Lord

May 13, 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy greets Israel’s President Isaac Herzog upon his arrival to Ukraine, in part to address an international gathering marking 80 years since the Babi Yar massacre, Oct. 5, 2021. Source: Isaac Herzog/Twitter.

Israel doesn’t have to join the West against Russia

The same western countries demanding that Jerusalem condemn Moscow’s actions in Ukraine are the ones leading policy that goes against Israel’s existential interests.

Amnon Lord

February 28, 2022

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