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…the need to take up arms to defend our state, while recognizing the Jewish moral code that was its foundation. When the Israeli armed forces were established in 1948, Tzahal’s doctrine included the principle of tohar haneshek — “purity of arms” — and an explicit requirement for o...

…em ignored. Israel won the war in the end. But the Egyptians’ surprise attack across the canal — and the panic and huge Israeli losses in the early days of the war — had shattered our aura of invincibility. Politically, Sadat had gone a long way to erasing the humiliation of 1967...

but in Israel and Gaza as well. I stand ready to defend Israeli soldiers and

given the history of Turkish-Israeli relations

much less carry it out - and trigger an Israeli attack on Gaza. Such a scenario casts Israel as the aggressor and Hamas as the victim

Assad is believed to have stored bulk chemical agents and filled (or quickly filled) shells and bombs in underground bunkers at multiple sites throughout the country. Moreover

…oor. We would also risk forfeiting the American support we’d secured by our efforts to reach a peace deal, an asset all Israeli governments would benefit from in other circumstances and contexts in the future. Fortunately, I had an alternative to a coalition with the Likud. Alar...

…he Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The group also attempted to hijack a jet over London belonging to the Israeli airline El Al but was thwarted by security guards on board. The Pan Am seizure ended quickly, but the passengers on the TWA and Swissair jets were diver...

…en staging a series of raids. In one of their most recent attacks, they’d planted land mines, one of which destroyed an Israeli schoolbus, killing the driver and one of the teachers and injuring nearly a dozen children. The so-called Battle of Karameh was our single most signific...

… cause — radioactive poisoning — and hinted that Mossad’s Caesarea section was back in business. Caesarea, named for an Israeli beach town that dates back to Roman times, is the operations branch of Israel’s secret service, most notoriously responsible for the assassinations of s...

…ential rise in support among the Palestinian public for armed operations against Israel—S0.9 percent now view attacking Israeli positions in the current climate as a credible way to express their grievances and pressure the Israeli government to compromise. This is a 20-percent i...

the Israeli government circled the wagons. Given the

…doubtedly helpful, exciting, and informative way to find answers, but a conflict as multifaceted and complicated as the Israeli-Palestinian dispute cannot be fully explained without taking into account the opinions of the ordinary people who live the reality every single day. Mil...

…he Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The group also attempted to hijack a jet over London belonging to the Israeli airline El Al but was thwarted by security guards on board. The Pan Am seizure ended quickly, but the passengers on the TWA and Swissair jets were diver...

why can’t Israel live with an Iranian bomb? The answer is that no Israeli leader has ever threatened to eradicate Iran.