Martin Sherman
ARTICLES BY: Martin Sherman
But for the Grace of God — Iran in Syria and the Lessons for Israel
"Israel has a strategic interest in disassociating Syria from the extremist axis that Iran is leading. Syria is not lost, Assad is western educated and...
Israel’s Ruinous Right
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." -- attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, circa. 1150. ... It is neither an easy nor an enviable...
The Ruinous Results of ‘Conflict Management’
"Israel’s present conflict management approach, which has succeeded in reducing Palestinian terrorism to manageable proportions, is an insufficient response to the dangers of Palestinian territorial...
Lieberman’s New Home Demolition Initiative: The Point and the Pointlessness
"There is no difference between an attack that ends in murder and an attack that ends with serious injury. In both cases the homes of...
Decertifying the Iran Deal — A Moral Imperative, but Now What?
“In a large country with multiple facilities and ample experience in nuclear concealment, violations will be inherently difficult to detect. Devising theoretical models of inspection...
The ‘Jordan-Is-Palestine’ Conference — Why I Agreed to Participate
"Palestine and Transjordan are one, for Palestine is the coastline and Transjordan is the hinterland of the same country." - King Abdullah, Cairo, April 12, 1948. "Jordanians and...
Oslo at 24: Failing the ‘Crystal Ball Test’
"We have come to try and put an end to the hostilities, so that our children, our children's children, will no longer experience the painful...
The Smotrich Plan – A Step in the Right Direction, but…
"I am not talking here about cruel expulsion or the flooding of countries with penniless refugees. The emigration we are talking about is planned, willing,...
‘Conflict Management’: The Collapse of a Concept
"…to remain at peace when you should be going to war may be often very dangerous." -- Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, 431 BCE. ... This...
The Taylor Force Act: Putting ‘Palestine’ in Perspective
"Congress is finally considering legislation to stop the Palestinian Authority from incentivizing violence…This has to stop, and the Taylor Force Act…attempts to do that. As...
Touting Jewish Ghettos – Moronic or Malevolent?
"The settlements would remain Israeli enclaves inside a Palestinian state. This will enable the establishment of an independent Palestinian state without dismantling Israeli settlements and...
Neo-Unilateralism – A Futile, Fatal Folly
"I can even pin dates on it. In 2007 or 2008 we will have another major disengagement in the West Bank. And within a decade,...
The Humanitarian Paradigm — Hobson’s Choice for Israel (Part II)
"O, who can hold a fire in his hand; By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite; By bare imagination of...
The Humanitarian Paradigm — Hobson’s Choice for Israel (Part I)
"…when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" -- Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four. "Hobson’s choice: a situation in...