Ian Joseph

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Oct 26, 2024, 9:11 AM

Are We Winning, Yet?

“War is politics by other means" attributed to Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz “War is politics by other means" is understood to mean that war should be viewed as a continuation of political objectives, but achieved through the use...

Oct 13, 2024, 6:42 PM

What Happened to Our Dreams – Part III

In the last “What Happened to Our Dreams?” post I discussed the existential external security threat to Israel. In this post, I will discuss the internal existential threat posed by the undeclared civil war between the ultra-orthodox and secular...

Oct 7, 2024, 8:39 PM

The Winds of Change

“Netanyahu’s policies have not and will not produce a sustainable victory in Gaza, cannot secure Israel against its greatest existential threat — Iran — and are endangering world Jewry and undermining America’s broader Middle East strategic needs and goals.”...

Oct 5, 2024, 9:43 PM

How Many Live in Israel?

Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Israeli population expected to top 10 million within weeks - Times of Israel Headline, 26 September, 2024 With Israel's population, as counted by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), slated to shortly pass the ten million...

Oct 5, 2024, 9:11 PM

Israeli Support for Trump

I continue to read polls from Israel which indicate overwhelming Israeli support for Trump and the Republicans, inspired and led by Bibi Netanyanu. Israeli support for Trump runs counter to American Jewish trends, demonstrating another facet of the divide...

Aug 15, 2024, 9:12 AM

What Happened To Our Hopes and Dreams?

“when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of the Four I started writing this blog in September 2018 with the first post titled “Hope and...

Aug 6, 2024, 9:13 AM

The Futility of Haredi Conscription

“Mankind .. makes a poorer performance of government than almost any other human activity. Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests? … Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception,...

Jun 16, 2024, 11:54 PM

A Convenient Fiction, Inconvenient Facts

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” ~ Abraham Lincoln "We have no solution......

Jun 6, 2024, 6:29 AM

Dying for an Ideal

“The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the...

May 23, 2024, 9:23 PM

Should We Stay or Should We Go?

“Many Israeli Jews say the Oct. 7 attack — in which thousands of Hamas militants breached the border fence, killed 1,200 people and abducted about 250 — burst any sense of security they felt in this small country surrounded...

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About Me

Born and educated in South Africa, a graduate of Jewish day school and Habonm Dror, Ian Joseph served in the IDF as an officer in combat units, and currently resides in North Carolina and Cyprus. Ian holds an MBA from Shulich School of Business in Toronto, is certified as a Master Instructor by the American Sailing Association and is currently retired from IBM. Among other pursuits Ian edits a weekly newsletter of Israeli news items, teaches sailing around the world and certifies sailing instructors.

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