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David M. Weinberg

David M. Weinberg is vice president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, jiss.org.il. His personal website is: davidmweinberg.com.

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David M. WeinbergIsrael HayomJune 23, 2019

Blame those settlements!

Settlements neither explain Palestinian unwillingness to make peace with Israel nor cause traffic jams in Tel Aviv. Stop using them as a thinly veiled smokescreen for anti-Israel sentiment.

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Israel Hayom

David M. WeinbergFebruary 10, 2019

Benny Gantz, more of the same?

Gantz went further in a recent interview with Yedioth Ahronoth, where he praised the unilateral Gaza withdrawal and the destruction of Gush Katif towns, saying that it was "carried out with a lot of political consideration," "done legally," and "handled well."

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Israel Hayom

David M. WeinbergJanuary 25, 2019

Gantz’s first big mistake

I have some advice for Benny Gantz: Tell us who you really are and what you truly believe—not what your campaign team (so wrongly!) thinks that Israelis want to hear.

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Israel Hayom

David M. WeinbergDecember 23, 2018

Is J Street still pro-Israel?

When it was founded 11 years ago, J Street claimed to be a pro-Israel and pro-peace organization. That was taken to mean partnering with the mainstream Israeli political left to build support in Washington for a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians. Or so we were led to believe.

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Israel Hayom

David M. WeinbergDecember 2, 2018

Don’t kill the haredi revolution!

The threat comes from a group of extremist professors who have petitioned the High Court of Justice with a demand to terminate all government funding for gender-segregated college programs geared to the very observant.

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Israel Hayom

David M. WeinbergNovember 4, 2018

Israel has role in fighting anti-Semitism

For the first 25 years of Israel's existence, the unspoken attitude in Jerusalem was that "if Jews abroad have a problem with anti-Semites, they can always immigrate to Israel."

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Israel Hayom

David M. WeinbergOctober 26, 2018

Don’t throw MBS under the bus!

For all its legendary wealth, Saudi Arabia is, after all, a failed state with tribal divisions, byzantine oligarchic intrafamily enmities, zealously rigid religious leaders and a barbaric “justice” system.

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Israel Hayom

David M. WeinbergOctober 12, 2018

Warmed-over withdrawal syndrome

In short, a unilateral Israeli withdrawal will not enhance Israeli security nor improve Israel’s international position and moral standing. It will rip Israeli society apart for no good reason.

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Israel Hayom

David M. WeinbergOctober 5, 2018

Iran: Nowhere, no-time supervision

The point of all this is to illustrate the limitations—indeed, the uselessness and even venality, of international institutions—when it comes to guaranteeing Israeli security.

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