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Feb 27, 2024, 2:40 PM

A new, local strategy for governing Gaza

Palestinians react as they gather to collect aid food in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on February 26, 2024. (AFP)

Empowering clans to run life in the Strip will require a re-education process, ousting UNRWA, and regional and US cooperation

May 7, 2023, 5:09 PM

‘In Eretz Israel, the Jewish people was born’

As we celebrate the 75th Birthday of the State of Israel, we must acknowledge that something very important is missing: an unwavering belief in the righteousness of our cause. Awareness, education and actions are needed to change this, if...

Jan 29, 2023, 3:07 PM

Israel needs a national guard right now

Security forces and rescue forces at the scene of a deadly terror shooting in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood, January 27, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi / Flash90)

It will take more than intel and special forces to defeat the growing terrorism of lone-wolf attacks

Dec 29, 2022, 2:24 PM

For this government, security threats must outweigh politics

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech on files obtained by Israel's Mossad that he says prove Iran lied about its nuclear program, at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Israel must address the buildup of substantial terror armies at its doorstep, from Iran and its proxies to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority

Aug 2, 2022, 4:42 PM

Now’s not the time to settle the maritime dispute with Lebanon

File: Hezbollah fighters raise their hands as their leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link during a rally to mark Jerusalem day or Al-Quds day, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, April 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

A transitional Israeli government cannot make concessions to a dysfunctioning Lebanese state dominated by a terrorist organization

Oct 15, 2019, 9:52 AM

An IDF General’s Ask of an Israeli PM

PEACE IN THE VALLEY Whoever emerges as the next prime minister of Israel will have a one-time, historic opportunity to permanently improve Israel's national security. This can be achieved by taking advantage of understandings in place between Israel and the U.S.,...

May 23, 2018, 6:16 AM

Gaza is the gateway to stability

Recent events have again demonstrated that the Gaza Strip, not the West Bank, constitutes the most serious, pressing, and strategic challenge to Israel and regional stability. Yet a strategy that resolves the situation in Gaza also constitutes the richest...

Mar 1, 2018, 7:21 AM

Time for Oslo to exit the stage

In recent years, a number of fundamental problems have cast the Oslo two-state solution paradigm into serious doubt. The first of these is the fact that Israel does not deal with a single, unified Palestinian system which takes centralized decisions...

Jul 27, 2017, 6:44 PM

Lesson learned: violence pays

The Temple Mount fracas is an early warning example of how a standard of Muslim rage is driving conflict 'resolution'

Jun 30, 2017, 5:43 PM

Our allies are ready for new pathways to peace

In the context of an initiative to promote new methods to end the Israel-Palestinian conflict, I recently flew to the United States, to speak to Jewish communities, college students, and elected officials, under the auspices of Our Soldiers Speak . My task,...

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Brigadier-General Amir Avivi (Res.), is the founder and CEO of the Israel Defense and Security Forum, an NGO comprised of over 16,000 members who served in various Israeli security organizations, including dozens of reserve duty generals. The IDSF focuses on national security, education and the strengthening of Zionist values in Israel.

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