Opinion

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Here is a bet you can hold me to. The respect from the US lasts. The protection that used to come with it does not, and it gets tested before the year is out, probably in Lebanon.

Hamas’s documents show an enemy that was cruel, patient, and strategic. Israel’s response must be moral, disciplined, and equally strategic.

Trump’s emerging Iran strategy risks empowering the very actors most interested in sabotaging peace and dividing allies.

We must see the person before the diagnosis and ensure that our support systems foster collaboration between national and local governments.

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

Zionism and Americanism make Israel and America dynamic, catalytic countries, yearning, churning, and ever-trying to better their nations by fulfilling their founding ideals.

Bibi has put Israel in a weak position with little choice but to follow Trump’s lead. 

My 20-year-old self would have been incredulous to learn that, almost four decades later, I am in the same place, with the same mission statement, in Lebanon.

The question before Israel is not whether it is entitled to defend itself. It does. The question is whether Israel can defend itself in a way that preserves the American political coalition.