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Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman spent seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli defense establishment. He is the founder of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a member of the Habithonistim-Israel Defense & Security Forum (IDSF) research team, and a participant in the Israel Victory Project.

Balloons fall as Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris concludes her remarks at the end of the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug. 22, 2024. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images.

America 2024: Is antisemitism ‘the point?’

Rather than side unreservedly with Israel after the brutally barbaric onslaught against it, the Democratic Party and the Biden administration chose to take unprecedented measures against the elected government of a friendly nation.

September 2, 2024

An illustrative image of French soldiers in the Algerian War. Source: DeepAI.

Fickle feckless France

The French Foreign Ministry advanced two claims as the rationale for its decision to support the ICC, both equally risible and ridiculous.

June 9, 2024

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani after a meeting in Tehran in 2019. Credi: Press Office of the Government of Armenia.

The inversion of victim and victimizer

Gazans' plight is the result of, not the reason for, their smoldering antisemitism.

May 23, 2024

Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip, Feb. 26, 2024. Credit: IDF.

Misplaced moral outrage on civilian casualties

Israel seeks to minimize harm to non-combatants, while Hamas seeks to maximize it as a propaganda tool.

April 11, 2024

U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the response to the recent Hamas invasion of Israel and Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine, Oct. 19, 2023. Photo by Oliver Contreras/White House.

Reason, reasonableness and realpolitik

Under the Biden administration, important foreign policy interests are being sacrificed to domestic politics.

February 29, 2024

Then-Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Aug. 14, 2022. Photo by Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL.

Comparing coalitions

The current government is not unblemished, but it could be and has been worse.

February 14, 2024

Hamas supporters wave the terrorist group's flag during a rally at Birzeit University, north of Ramallah, May 19, 2022. Credit: Flash90.

Incredible imbecility

The historical record bodes ill for initiatives to engineer a “Pax Israeliana” between Israel and its Arab adversaries.

January 21, 2024

Israel Air Force strikes on terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, Oct. 28, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel misconceptualized the Palestinian Arab collective

Radical terrorism is an expression of Palestinian Arab society, not an imposition on it.

October 30, 2023

Demonstrators block Route 1, the main highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and clash with police near Ein Hemed, July 11, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

A sense of betrayal

Past deeds of heroism are no justification for present acts of subversion.

August 27, 2023