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Swords of Iron

Amid the shock and horror, the nation stands together with moral clarity and resolve

Historical analogies are always tricky, but it’s hard to avoid the thought that Saturday was Israel’s 9/11. At least 600 are dead, hundreds wounded, and possibly dozens kidnapped in a country the size of New Jersey.
Swords of Iron
Swords of Iron

This Is a Pearl Harbor Moment for Israel

The attack that led to the murder of more than 250 Israelis and the abduction of dozens more will change the way Israel manages its conflict with the Hamas rulers in Gaza. What was, will no longer be
Swords of Iron
Swords of Iron

Webinar Discussion: Findings from the 2023 Assessment

JPPI has just published its Annual Assessment for 2023. This year, the report is released beneath the shadow of an acute social and political crisis that impacts the resilience of Israeli society and world Jewry.
Swords of Iron
Identity

Israel – from adolescence to adulthood

The actual collective picture is better than the image Israelis have of themselves. Still, the identity crisis casts its shadows on Israel’s sovereign existence, and its gravity should not be downplayed.
Identity
Geopolitics

The logic of Peres

Sooner or later Israel will discover that the future of its integration in the new Middle East remains dependent on a viable Israeli-Palestinian settlement.
Geopolitics
Identity

If the Declaration of Independence Falls, Israeli Unity Will Fall Too

This last bastion of consensus is under attack. If it succeeds, there will no longer be any text around which the State of Israel and Israeli society can unite.
Identity
Identity

How I Got Israel Wrong

A crisis such as the one we are going through in Israel is an opportunity for self-examination and soul-searching. I tended to believe that pragmatism would always win the day. I was wrong.
Identity
Identity

Restoring the covenant of fate

If we wisely gird ourselves with constitutional arrangements on the rules of the game commonly accepted in liberal democracies, we will be able to restore our covenant of fate.
Identity
Identity

The State of the Jews writ large

As a senior US government official under Carter, I tried to synthesize policy in ways that strengthened the US-Israel relationship
Identity