Category Archives: Israel and Palestinian Arabs

Winning the World’s Hearts and Minds

Posted on August 21, 2024 by Victor Rosenthal

Israel is losing (some even say she has already irrevocably lost) the information war that is being waged in parallel with the kinetic one that she has been engaged in since 1948, but especially since 7 October 2023. The usual … Continue reading →

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Israel Waits on the Edge of War

Posted on August 18, 2024 by Victor Rosenthal

Israel has been in crisis mode for two weeks, waiting for a promised attack from Iran. At the same time, the Biden-Harris administration is trying to force Israel to accept a cease-fire agreement with Hamas. How are these things related? … Continue reading →

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Do We Have an Ally in America? Or Something Else?

Posted on August 13, 2024 by Victor Rosenthal

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” – Rahm Emanuel Emanuel was Chief of Staff for Barack … Continue reading →

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How to End the New War of Attrition

Posted on July 30, 2024 by Victor Rosenthal

Welcome to that familiar location, the one between a rock and a hard place. Since the day after the invasion and massacre on 7 October, Hezbollah has been waging a successful war of attrition against Israel. More than 80,000 Israelis … Continue reading →

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Do We Have What it Takes to Live in the Middle East?

Posted on May 5, 2024 by Victor Rosenthal

The struggle to establish and maintain a Jewish sovereign state in Eretz Yisrael has lasted more than one hundred years. Since 1948, the existence of the state has hung in the balance several times. This is one of them. Our … Continue reading →

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Our Repeated Strategic Failures, or How We Never Learn from Experience

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Victor Rosenthal

1. Failure to understand and respect our enemies. Since before the founding of the State of Israel, Palestinian Arab leaders have been saying that the land between the river and the sea is Arab land, land in which non-Arab (and … Continue reading →

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How Israel Lost the Information War

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Victor Rosenthal

Yesterday I was listening to a news program on the radio while preparing dinner. The host asked his subject – I don’t recall who it was, probably an opposition member of the Knesset – this question: how can it be … Continue reading →

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America Takes the Side of Hamas

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Victor Rosenthal

It is with great sorrow – and trepidation – that I observe America taking the side of Hamas in what is nothing less than the first phase of a war against the existence of the Jewish state. Despite the declarations … Continue reading →

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