Gershon Hacohen
ARTICLES BY: Gershon Hacohen
The West Bank and the Lessons of the Gaza Conflagration
The latest Gaza conflagration was all but predictable. Though lacking advanced weapons systems such as fighter aircraft, tanks, and artillery, Hamas and Islamic Jihad have...
New Threats to Israel Require New Defense Concepts
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi have recently made it clear that the...
A Strategic Israeli View of the Turkish Campaign Against the Kurds
In light of recent regional events in general, and the Turkish invasion of Syria in particular, Israel needs to reconsider the underlying strategic rationale not...
Repentance and Return at Election Time
After two highly charged election campaigns, Israeli society -- in all its various sectors -- is in need of soul-searching and repentance. From a Jewish...
The Jordan Valley Is Waiting for Zionist Action
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise to apply sovereignty to the Jordan Valley is worthy of praise. The reasons for doing so were already evident to...
The Iranian Axis: Israel’s New Existential Challenge
The creation of an Iranian military/terrorist axis along Israel’s northern and southern borders, comprising Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, lays the groundwork for the...
Fourteen Years Since the Destruction of Gush Katif
I am known to the public as the “commander of the disengagement forces.” If this were something to be proud of, it would be worth...
The Fight for Israel’s Open Spaces
Last week’s murderous terrorist attack that killed a 17-year-old Israeli girl and severely wounded her father and brother reflects the ongoing struggle between Jews and Arabs...
What Should We Learn from the Gaza Disengagement?
In the summer of 2005, as Israel’s unilateral disengagement from Gaza drew near, the self-styled “Council for Peace and Security” issued a declaration -- signed...
The Sad Rejection of Ben-Gurion’s Vision
The rejection by Israeli intellectuals of Jewish spiritual and political activism, as exemplified in the preaching and actions of Rabbi Akiva, who was executed by...
The Six-Day War Continued Ben-Gurion’s Vision of Israel, Not Destroyed It
Every year, the anniversary of the Six-Day War runs up against the rocks of a perennial Israeli debate: Who deviated from the Zionist path? Each...
Annexing Parts of the West Bank’s Area C: An Israeli National Interest
The Commanders for Israel’s Security movement has appealed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a much-publicized warning based on a new false assertion: that annexation...
David Ben-Gurion and the Meaning of ‘Mamlachtiut’
For David Ben-Gurion, the concept of mamlachtiut captured the perennial tension between the establishment of the State of Israel as an orderly and delimited institutional...
Toppling Hamas or Handing Gaza to Abbas Will Not Solve the Problem
When a single rocket launched from the Gaza Strip into central Israel forces the Israeli prime minister to cancel an important slate of meetings in...
