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Hanan Shai

Dr. Hanan Shai is a lecturer in the political-science department at Bar-Ilan University.

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Hanan ShaiBegin Sadat Center for Strategic StudiesMay 24, 2021

Did the Gaza operation achieve its political goal?

Despite the IDF’s spectacular exploits and extensive destruction of targets, it appears that control over the length of the quiet and the quality of Israel’s security will remain in Hamas’s hands.

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Hanan ShaiBESA CenterJanuary 20, 2021

The common Israeli destiny

Renewing Israel’s national solidarity and moral legitimacy is the need of the hour.

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Hanan ShaiBESA CenterJanuary 3, 2021

A serious moral failure at Yad Vashem

The museum, which was designed to perpetuate the memory of the Holocaust and its victims, now trumpets the values of European liberalism—the very values that paved the way to the Shoah.

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Hanan ShaiBESA CenterOctober 12, 2020

Golda Meir: The civilian who exposed Israel’s lack of preparedness for the 1973 war

Although she lacked military knowledge, on the eve of the Yom Kippur War Prime Minister Golda Meir exposed the fact that deterrence and early warning, the two cornerstones of Israel’s security conception, were without foundation.

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Hanan ShaiBESA CenterSeptember 15, 2020

The moral failure in Israel’s approach to COVID-19

Israel is not just a democracy; it is a Jewish democracy. In its fight against the pandemic, the country is acting in contravention of its own moral values.

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Hanan ShaiIsrael HayomMay 23, 2019

‘Human Dignity and Liberty’ damaged democracy

Israel is engulfed in a moral crisis, not a judicial one, and it needs to be addressed as such.

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Israel Hayom

Hanan ShaiMarch 31, 2019

Hold off on Gaza for now

The enemy was supposed to give up simply because of shock and awe caused by fireworks displays of advanced technology and intelligence, amazing in their precision and power. The result: an exhausting war of attrition that has gone on since 2002.

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Israel Hayom

Hanan ShaiFebruary 20, 2019

Beyond populism and anti-Semitism … essentialism

Since classic anti-Semitism is currently out of fashion, it’s channeling its hatred of Jews to the State of Israel, whose insistence on constitutionally defending itself as a nation-state is a veritable call to arms.

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Israel Hayom

Hanan ShaiOctober 17, 2018

Israel and Hamas are fighting a war of attrition

We also cannot hide from the fact that rather than beating and deterring Hamas, Hamas is beating and deterring us.

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Israel Hayom

Hanan ShaiOctober 11, 2018

The IDF must update its combat doctrine

The author of the report, outgoing IDF Ombudsman Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Brik, hails from the 1973 Yom Kippur War generation, which is still convinced that the IDF’s losses stemmed from an intelligence failure and because the emergency warehouses weren’t prepared for war.

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