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Lt. Col. Yochai Guiski (IDF Ret.)

Lt. Col. Yochai Guiski (IDF, Ret.) is a publishing expert at The MirYam Institute. He served in various roles, including Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (C.O.G.A.T.), Strategic Planning Division and the Ministry of Defense (politico-military directorate).

Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon raise the movement's banners at the Israeli border, July 3, 2022. Credit: Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

Deciphering Hezbollah’s decision-making

The last decade has demonstrated that Israel and the terror group based in Lebanon can de-escalate, even when one or both of the sides sustain casualties.

Lt. Col. Yochai Guiski (IDF Ret.)

June 16, 2023

A group of Iraqi Jews who fled to the British Mandate of Palestine following the 1941 Farhud pogrom in Baghdad. Credit: Moshe Baruch via Wikimedia Commons.

The Palestinian issue is about supremacy, not justice

Privilege and supremacy are usually associated with white Europeans and Americans and not the seemingly poor and oppressed Palestinians.

Lt. Col. Yochai Guiski (IDF Ret.)

December 15, 2022

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a conference of the Israeli Television News Company in Jerusalem on March 7, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Bennett must use Israel’s influence to mediate Russia-Ukraine war

Strategic and moral imperatives dictate that Israel try to use its influence to prevent more loss of life and alleviate the suffering of those who are still caught in the fighting.

Lt. Col. Yochai Guiski (IDF Ret.)

March 14, 2022

Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alevi (right) sits next to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Source: Khamenei.ir.

Dealing with an intransigent Iran

The Islamic Republic is not invincible, and its rise is not preordained. But there needs to be a united front willing to act against its ongoing aggression.

Lt. Col. Yochai Guiski (IDF Ret.)

October 26, 2021