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David M. Weinberg

David M. Weinberg is on the research team at Habithonistim: Israel’s Defense and Security Forum and the senior managing fellow at Misgav, the Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy.

Palestinians shoot tear gas at the Israeli army in Ramallah as they clash during the early days of the Second Intifada, or “uprising,” a period of intensified violence that began in September 2000 and lasted five years. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Terrorist releases in exchange for hostages threaten even more Israeli lives

Dealing Palestinian terrorists for Israeli hostages might be the moral thing to do, but it also may be the most disastrous.

David M. Weinberg

Jan. 14, 2025

Israeli soldiers during operational activity in eastern Khan Yunis, July 2024. Credit: IDF.

Getting strategically ‘unstuck’

The strikes on July 30-31 are the beginning of Israel's emancipation from impossible military and diplomatic handcuffs.

David M. Weinberg

Aug. 8, 2024

IDF troops conduct counterterrorism raids in Judea and Samaria, March 25, 2024. Credit: IDF.

Judea and Samaria are literally on fire

Escalating Palestinian terrorism, surging illegal Palestinian construction in zones of strategic importance to Israel and out-of-control arson attacks must be stopped.

David M. Weinberg

July 10, 2024

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Judea and Samaria leaders, Nov. 8, 2023. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

The myth of escalating settler violence

An ugly, fringe phenomenon being falsely puffed up to "balance" the crimes of Hamas.

David M. Weinberg

Dec. 13, 2023

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (second from left) at a meeting with French President Emanuel Macron in Paris, June 16, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Give Saudi peace a chance

Chances for a Saudi-Israeli deal are high, the risks manageable and the value overwhelming.

David M. Weinberg

Aug. 6, 2023

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at a protest in Tel Aviv against the government's planned judicial reforms, Feb. 25, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90.

Ehud Barak’s poisonous pyromania

Whatever you think of the Netanyahu government or its judicial reform proposals, Ehud Barak's warmongering is the true threat to Israeli democracy.

David M. Weinberg

July 30, 2023

Israeli soldiers patrol the Lebanese border, April 26, 2021. Credit: IDF Spokesperson via TPS.

The refusal-to-serve festival

Mainstream Israeli media have pointedly failed to report on the majority consensus in Israeli society.

David M. Weinberg

July 26, 2023

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman at the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires. Nov. 20, 2018. Photo by Matias Lynch/Shutterstock.

Sabotaging Saudi-Israeli peace

The left prefers shafting Netanyahu and promoting Palestinian statehood over breakthrough diplomacy that would transform the Mideast.

David M. Weinberg

June 11, 2023

Henry Kissinger discusses the Vietnam War at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, April 26, 2016. Photo by Marsha Miller/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Honoring Henry Kissinger at 100

While he was very tough with Israeli leaders, Kissinger never ran roughshod over Israel's core interests.

David M. Weinberg

May 29, 2023