Is War Obsolete?

Credibility Of Military Threats In Doubt If Waging War Considered Out Of Bounds By Amir Oren Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” has some unique features in this continuous-coverage day and…

Tehran Terrifies, Tel Aviv Threatens

Jealous, Jittery In Jerusalem By Amir Oren The savant yet sardonic writers at The Economist have a knack for producing news other media must echo. When they publish their annual…

Prisons, Prestige, Peace

  From Gilad to Gilboa By Amir Oren The Israel Prison Service was always known as the weakest link in either of the two chains it belongs to - security…

Boots, Boats, Bombs & Bases

  IDF’s Identity Crisis - and Increased Value By Amir Oren Two unprecednted events involving the Israel Defense Forces took place this week, seemingly unrelated, yet so contrasting as to…

Take Care, Caretaker

Beyond Bennett-Biden Bond By Amir Oren Biblical Bilhah was one of the Abraham dynasty series of surrogate mothers, bearing two of Jacob’s children instead of his second wife, Rachel. In…

No Cabal At Kabul

Decisions Are To Be Made, Not Received By Amir Oren It was spring, 1975, and an Israeli reporter made his way to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a U.S. Army base…

Yes, Protection, Without Occupation

Yes, East, But Far Not Near By Amir Oren President Biden and his top State and Defense Departments lieutenants are not waiting for the Iranian regime to make up its…

B.N. Out, N.B. In. So?

  Net Effect Of Netanyahu’s Fall By Amir Oren A new government is in power in Israel, headed by Naftali Bennet and his co-leader Yair Lapid. Binyamin Netanyahu is no…

Man On Mission Meets Mid-East Mess

Anything but Sleepy, Joe By Amir Oren President Joseph R. Biden’s decision to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by September 11 has intriguing lessons for Israel, and not just…

Austin, We Have A Problem (2)

An Iron - but not necessarily Iran - Clad  Commitment By Amir Oren 40 years ago, in Spring 1981, a Likud Prime Minister was on the verge of losing power.…