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Nov 19, 2024, 12:45 PM

INTO THE FRAY: Malicious malign Macron

France's adversarial attitude towards both Israel and America has regrettably been long abrew. Could France under the Macron government be on a head-on collision course with the newly elected Trump administration following his sweeping victory earlier this month? There is...

Oct 27, 2024, 10:21 PM

INTO THE FRAY: Something rotten in the land of the Tricolor?

While France is the origin of the principles of modern democracy, it has also shown a disturbing affinity for tyranny. I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors…I cannot prevent the...

Oct 14, 2024, 4:33 AM

Into The Fray: November: Persian preferences

Translated into Persian, the search for peace and regional stability—the oft-aired aspiration of the Biden-Harris administration—means giving Tehran the bomb. In a disconcerting display of barefaced side-stepping, evasion, and diversion of a simple interview question, Kamala Harris provided more cause...

Sep 29, 2024, 5:01 PM

Into the Fray: Kamala’s unsavory supporters

Some of Kamala Harris’s supporters constitute yet another ominous omen in the perturbing accumulation that the prospect of her victory portends. Recently, a distressed Twitter/X message from a well-known Israeli-Australian human rights jurist caught my eye. It dealt with an...

Sep 19, 2024, 10:47 PM

Inverted morality

Burnt and abandoned cars on October 10, 2023, in the area of the party where hundreds of Israelis were killed by Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Israel near the Gaza border, on October 7. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

When the Western world rationalizes Hamas's heinous disregard for all decency and worries about the terrorists' well-being, evil has overtaken good

Aug 31, 2024, 10:11 PM

America 2024: Is antisemitism “the point?”

Rather than side unreservedly with Israel after the brutally barbaric onslaught on it, the Democratic party & the Biden administration chose to take unprecedented measures against the elected government of a friendly nation. There is no act of treachery or...

Jun 9, 2024, 2:03 AM

INTO THE FRAY: Fickle Feckless France- Egalite, fraternite …antisemitisme

The French Foreign Ministry advanced two claims as the rationale for its decision to support the ICC—both equally risible and ridiculous The French Army burned 326 houses and murdered more than half of the village's residents. French soldiers raped...

May 23, 2024, 10:53 PM

INTO THE FRAY: Today’s surging antisemitism—A perverse inversion of victim & victimizer

World opinion must be made to understand that the plight of Gazans today is the result, not the reason, for the smoldering Judeophobic hate on their part. The surge in antisemitism across the US and elsewhere has once again thrown...

Apr 11, 2024, 11:15 PM

INTO THE FRAY: Misplaced moral outrage-moronic, mendacious, or malevolent?

Israel seeks to minimize civilian casualties, while Hamas seeks to maximize civilian casualties and use them as a propaganda tool. "Israel has taken more steps to avoid harming civilians than any other military in history…]S historic in comparison to all...

Mar 27, 2024, 12:16 PM

Into the Fray: Elections: Why now is not the time

When Israeli voters next go to the polls, over what led to the grim events of Oct. 7, their choices must not be driven by uninformed rumor, ill-informed speculation, and misinformed emotion. The campaign has reinstated Israel’s deterrence and...

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About Me

Dr. Martin Sherman is founder and executive director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies a member of the research team of the Israel Defense & Security Forum (IDSF)-Habithonistim, and a participant in the Israel Victory Project. . He served for seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli Defense establishment, and was a ministerial adviser to Yitzhak Shamir's government. Sherman also lectured for 20 years at Tel Aviv University in Political Science, International Relations and Strategic Studies. He holds several university degrees: a B.Sc. (Physics and Geology), an MBA (Finance), and a PhD in political science and international relations. He was the first academic director of the internationally renowned Herzliya Conference and is the author of two books, as well as numerous articles and policy papers on a wide range of political, diplomatic and security issues. Sherman was born in South Africa and has lived in Israel since 1971.