Martin Sherman

Dr. Martin Sherman served for seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli Defense establishment.  He was a ministerial adviser to Yitzhak Shamir's government and lectured for 20 years at Tel Aviv University in Political Science, International Relations and Strategic Studies.  He holds several university degrees: a B.Sc. (Physics and Geology), an MBA (Finance), and a PhD in political science and international relations. He was the first academic director of the internationally renowned Herzliya Conference and is the author of two books and numerous articles and policy papers on a wide range of political, diplomatic and security issues. He was born in South Africa and has lived in Israel since 1971. Dr. Martin Sherman (www.martinsherman.net ) is founder and executive director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies (www.strategicisrael.org).

ARTICLES BY: Martin Sherman

March 13, 2016 2:10 am

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The Tragic Toll of the Two-State Travesty – on the Palestinians

During the 10 years since Hamas’s election victory, unemployment in the Gaza Strip has reached 45%, and the number of residents relying on foreign aid...

March 6, 2016 7:56 am

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The Australian Jewish Establishment: Political Truth vs Political Correctness – a Sequel

History shows no exact and necessary correlation between the quality of motives and the quality of foreign policy. This is true in both moral and...

February 28, 2016 9:05 am

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To the Australian Jewish Establishment — Embrace Political Truth, Not Correctness

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!… Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities… but the influence of the religion...

February 23, 2016 11:16 am

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Israel’s Urgent Imperative – A Doctrine of the Liberal Hawk

... [dissenting] intellectuals tend to be scorned and abused and vilified as “the Right”; “right-wing” – that all-purpose, nonsensical, infantile insult which is designed to...

February 19, 2016 5:42 am

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Back to the Ghetto? Waxing Insane

Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad – ancient proverb, misattributed to Euripides. Q: What is the difference between the State of Israel and...

February 9, 2016 5:52 am

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Israel’s Crybullies

You [Im Tirtzu] are the cancer in our society. You are the real foreign agents…. A few days ago you gave license for the killing...

January 29, 2016 5:00 am

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The Fatal Flaw in Post-Zionist Logic

In my understanding, the concept "Post Zionism" is--at the ideological level--a demand for democratization of the state – i. e. a call for a liberal...

January 19, 2016 1:58 pm

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Europe 2016: A study in Self-Cannibalization

"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion." -- R. Inge, dean of St. Paul’s...

July 7, 2015 3:14 pm

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Into the Fray: The Logical Lacunae of the Left – Ari Shavit at AJC

It is no secret that AJC believes in the two-state solution as a better, more practical alternative than all the others that have been proposed –...