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Chuck Freilich

Mar 12, 2023, 1:26 PM

What would the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commander say?

Illustrative: Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Hossein Salami addresses during the funeral ceremony for five members of the Guard killed in Syria, in Tehran, Iran, August 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)

Who needs to destroy the Zionists when they're doing the job themselves? An imagined memo from Gen. Hossein Salami

Apr 2, 2020, 8:42 AM

The ‘Dayenu’ School of Foreign Policy — revisited

Two years ago I announced, with all due flourish and panoply, the establishment of a new school of foreign policy thought, to be known henceforth and throughout the generations, as the “Dayenu School.” In just a remarkably short time,...

Apr 18, 2019, 11:45 PM

The ‘Dayenu’ School of Foreign Policy

One year ago, I announced, with great fanfare, the establishment of a new school of foreign policy thought, destined to take its place in the pantheon of the long existing “realist” and “liberal” schools. The new school was named,...

Feb 12, 2018, 5:11 AM

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Israel is fighting BDS the wrong way

Border Police officers take aim at Palestinian rioters during clashes near the West Bank Qalandiya checkpoint, on the outskirts of Ramallah, on December 15, 2017. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Americans will only stop viewing Israel as a brutal occupying power if Israel changes its policies

About Me

Chuck Freilich, a former Israeli deputy national security advisor, is a senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School. He is the author of Israeli National Security: a New Strategy for an Era of Change, Oxford Press.