07/28/2023
The Hebrew language—the language of the Jewish people—lacks a concept of history. The closest term to history is zikharon, or “memory.” Although both concepts—history and memory—relate to past events, they relate to those events and to the nature of time itself, in entirely different ways. The concept of history involves thinking about time in a linear fashion. Time is circular in…
07/28/2023
Tablet online magazine hosted a symposium on the desirability of continued U.S. military aid to Israel and asked that I weigh in. To read the entire symposium, click here. What follows is my article. AT THE HEIGHT OF OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE, Israel’s seven-week war with Hamas in the summer of 2014, then President Barack Obama imposed an embargo on a…
07/28/2023
In my news analysis this week, I went through the uproar over the Knesset’s legislation of constraints on the Supreme Court’s power to overturn policies based on the “Reasonableness Clause. I explained what the “reasonable clause is,” how it was invented, what the amended law will and won’t do and what it means for the Netanyahu government going forward. I…
07/27/2023
While the Israeli Left’s insurrection is capturing the nation’s attention, Hezbollah continues its acts of aggression and extortion along the Lebanese border. The prospect of a major war rises daily.To analyze the situation, my guest on the Caroline Glick Show this week is Tony Badran from the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracy.Tony and I discussed the changed strategic environment.…
07/24/2023
On the surface, Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to the White House on Tuesday felt like old times. U.S. President Joe Biden warmly greeted Israel’s ceremonial head of state and repeatedly stated that the U.S.’s commitment to Israel is “ironclad.” Biden mentioned that he spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the day before and arranged a visit for Israel’s actual…
07/24/2023
In my news analysis, I discuss the total mobilization of the Israeli media, (and the broader ruling class), on behalf of the left wing political and psychological warfare campaign against the Netanyahu government, I also discussed the incredible hostility of the Biden administration towards the Netanyahu government and its implications for the future of U.S.-Israel relations. To watch the show…
07/23/2023
The left’s new strategy for forcing the government to heel is to wage a psychological warfare operation the public and our leaders. Over the past several weeks, leftist pilots guided by former prime minister Ehud Barak have been threatening to ground the Air Force if the government implements its plan to pass a law this week that would place limits…
07/23/2023
Last week I was Lisa Daftari’s guest on her podcast, The Foreign Desk. Lisa and I discussed how my work as a member of Israel’s negotiation team with the PLO in the 1990s impacted my subsequent work. We discussed the crisis in U.S.-Israel ties and the prospects for peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
07/14/2023
In my News Analysis this week, I discussed: President Joe Biden’s interview with CNN’s Farid Zakaria where he launched yet another assault on the legitimacy of Israel’s government; U.S. support for the Lebanese Armed Forces. Over the past few weeks the LAF has operated shoulder to shoulder with Hezbollah terror forces in repeated cross-border penetrations of Israel. As the threat…
