Staying Alive: Israel In An Age Of ‘Martyrdom’

Posted on: May 14th, 2013

Everyone who reads newspapers should know at least one thing. Threats to annihilate Israel have always been unremarkable. Almost never, it seems, have Israel’s existential enemies sought any reason for concealment.

A Policy in Search of Doctrine

Posted on: May 8th, 2013

In the face of seemingly irrational threats from North Korea, at least one American conclusion should be obvious and prompt: Nuclear strategy is a "game" that sane world leaders must play, whether they like it, or not. President Obama can choose to play this complex game purposefully or inattentively. But, one way or another, he will have to play.

Obama’s Flawed Advice To Israel (Second of Two Parts)

Posted on: May 1st, 2013

A fundamental inequality is evident in all expressions of the Middle East peace process.

Obama’s Flawed Advice To Israel (First of Two Parts)

Posted on: April 24th, 2013

One must presume that President Obama’s most recent calls for Israeli cooperation in the Middle East peace process are balanced, fair, and well-intentioned. Why not? At the same time, unsurprisingly, these all-too-familiar calls are manifestly thin, in the sense that they lack any genuine intellectual content.

Understanding Israel’s National-Security Policy

Posted on: April 17th, 2013

Needed changes in Israel's decision making process have simply not kept up with the growing complexities and synergies of Israel's always-hostile external environment.

For Israel, Better the ‘Blessing’ than the ‘Curse’

Posted on: April 10th, 2013

Israel must continue to base its policies toward both Iran and 'Palestine' upon an utterly candid and unvarnished awareness of threats to Jewish life.

Iran’s Unhidden Plan For Genocide: Israel’s Decision (Third of Three Parts)

Posted on: April 4th, 2013

Under all relevant criteria of international law, Iran's ongoing stance toward Israel remains unequivocally genocidal.

Iran’s Unhidden Plan for Genocide: A Legal Right to Prevent Genocide? (Second of Three Parts)

Posted on: March 25th, 2013

There have been no recognized examples of anticipatory self-defense as a specifically preventative anti-genocide measure under international law.

Iran’s Unhidden Plan For Genocide: A Legal Assessment (First of Three Parts)

Posted on: March 20th, 2013

Every year Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad instructs the UN General Assembly that Israel is a defiling historical error, a hideous mistake bound to be rectified. Sometimes he goes cheerfully beyond such a narrowly predictive denunciation and proceeds to offer an alleged rationale for Israel's "disappearance."

Defending Israel From Iranian Nuclear Attack

Posted on: March 13th, 2013

On January 16, 2003, the private Project Daniel Group first advised then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons.

An Awakening…or Just Terror?

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

In the Middle East and North Africa, at least among large swaths of enthusiastic Islamists, true redemption still requires Muslims to present tangible proof of 'membership.'

Global Zero’s Possible Consequences For Israel

Posted on: February 27th, 2013

As this is being written, Chuck Hagel has yet to be confirmed as secretary of defense. Whatever the outcome of the Senate vote over his nomination, the views Hagel would have brought (or will in fact bring) to this post are extremely problematic.

The UN Plan For ‘Palestine’: Terror Without End

Posted on: February 20th, 2013

Palestinian terror seeks national self-determination but shouts endlessly to the world that even after statehood violence will continue against 'The Jews.'

The UN Plan For ‘Palestine’: The Motive for Terror

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

For the Palestinians and for the Arab/Islamic world as a whole, the "Zionist Problem" is merely a surface manifestation of the "Jewish Problem."

UN Plan for ‘Palestine’: Israel’s Deterrence Power

Posted on: February 6th, 2013

If Israel acquiesced to Palestinian statehood, this could encourage regional players to wage conventional war against Israel.

UN Plan for ‘Palestine’: the Palestinian View

Posted on: January 30th, 2013

Israeli leaders be thinking about doctrinal continuity in all of the seemingly discrete Palestinian factions.

Pillar of Defense: Separating Appearance from Reality

Posted on: January 23rd, 2013

When terrorists represent populations that enthusiastically support their attacks, responsibility for ensuing counter-terrorist harm must lie with the criminals.

After Pillar of Defense: Separating Appearance from Reality

Posted on: January 16th, 2013

Now that the dust has settled in Gaza following Israel’s Pillar of Defense operation, it is easy yet again to feel sorry for the Palestinians. After all, as anyone already knows who clings desperately to The New York Times, the still-lingering images are so evidently palpable and painful. And the Arab suffering – the grievous suffering. Wasn't it disturbingly "one-sided" and “disproportionate”?

Arab Terrorism and Religious Sacrifice

Posted on: January 9th, 2013

Sometimes, pragmatism handily trumps belief. Back in the earliest days of Arab terrorism against Israel – going back to May 1948 and even earlier – many disparate groups were able to cooperate in a presumptively common war against the Jewish state.

Israel And ‘Palestine’: A Memo To Barack Obama

Posted on: December 26th, 2012

Mr. President, some foreign policies need to be carefully thought through a second time.