Before October 7, a discussion took place in the cabinet about the situation in the West Bank. "You need to think differently," Finance Minister Smotrich threw at Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi. "Maybe it's good for us that Hamas rules the West Bank?" Yes, the statement that "Hamas is an asset" was not accidental — קראו עוד…

The gap between the victory albums and the war goals reveals more than anything else our deep hunger to finally win. The primary goal set for the war was to dismantle the Iranian nuclear core and remove the existential threat, as the Prime Minister put it. Well, there are still question marks regarding the damage קראו עוד…

Benjamin Netanyahu’s gamble has paid off. The Prime Minister has shown he understands Donald Trump perhaps better than Trump understands himself. We’ve grown used to assuming that when a U.S. president publicly says "no," it means "no." Not so with Trump. According to The New York Times, this "no" was also conveyed during two conversations קראו עוד…

The surprise was indeed remarkable — the Iranians were indeed caught in a false sense of security, and the blows delivered by the IDF and Mossad were indeed severe. However, comparing this to past strategic surprises in history misses an important point. Hitler surprised Stalin by invading Russia — and lived to regret it. Japan קראו עוד…

  Have we reached the point where politicians will act against their own clear political interests? Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) politicians have gotten us used to them being the more rational players. Their record is free of the kinds of trolling that characterized the right wing, which brought down Yitzhak Shamir’s coalition in 1992, or Ayman Odeh, קראו עוד…