Repeat pauses in the war are extraordinarily dangerous on many levels.
Founding coordinator of the Global Forum against Anti-Semitism in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, and former senior advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky. Israel office director of Canada’s Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs. A three-decade veteran diplomatic and defense columnist for The Jerusalem Post and many Jewish newspapers around the world.
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Arming Israel’s citizenry is part of a broader struggle to reshape Israel’s strategic realities
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Israeli leaders have no mandate to scale-back the assault on Hamas. The war cannot and must not end until Israel has achieved its legitimate military objectives in full.
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Half a million Israelis have been made refugee in their own homeland, an astounding and ultimately unacceptable dislocation.
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Bad policy thinking and faulty paradigms of the past still dominate in many capitals around the world, and too many people fall prey to the enemy’s propaganda.
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Shattered by Hamas atrocities are decades of faulty strategy.