Moshe Shelest, at The Blogs

Moshe Shelest

May 17, 2026, 9:48 AM

Abstract: The US Navy is without a doubt the strongest naval force humanity has ever seen. Yet it stands opposed by a third-rate military power that can still threaten one of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints and potentially...

May 13, 2026, 4:05 PM

The Structural Barrier to Equal Burden-Sharing in Israel

If Israel is serious about both integrating the Haredi population and expanding the IDF’s manpower, the problem cannot be reduced to enlistment policy alone. It is fundamentally political. As long as sectoral parties maintain a near-monopoly over their voters, the...

May 5, 2026, 5:34 PM

Israel’s new role in the new Middle East

Abstract: The Middle East since the fall of the Ottomans a hundred years ago operates as a fluid balance-of-power system in which rising states provoke counter-alliances and declining ones trigger realignments, driven by deep insecurity rooted in the region’s...

Apr 30, 2026, 10:27 PM

We should care less about de-Hamasification

Germany’s current Erinnerungspolitik (its highly institutionalized culture of Holocaust remembrance) is often presented as if it were a natural and continuous outgrowth of the postwar period, while not being that at all. In reality, it is a relatively late...

About Me

Moshe Shelest holds an MA in International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a BA in International Relations and History from the Open University of Israel. He specializes in Europe–Middle East dynamics and works as a specialist in the Europe Program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).