Martin van Creveld
By Martin van Creveld
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Opinion Israel Doesn’t Need the West Bank To Be Secure
When everything is said and done, how important is the West Bank to Israel’s defense? To answer the question, our best starting point is the situation before the 1967 war. At that time, the Arab armed forces surrounding Israel outnumbered the Jewish state’s army by a ratio of 3-to-1. Not only was the high ground…
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Opinion For Sderot, Help Is Not on the Way
Living near Gaza can be a traumatic experience. Over the past six years, thousands of rockets and mortar rounds have been launched across the border into Israel. On a bad day, every few hours there is a bang, or a number of bangs. One does not know where the next rocket will land. Now that…
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Opinion Peace Is Worth the Risk Of Withdrawing From the Golan
About this time last year, the Israeli media was buzzing with gloomy predictions of an impending war with Syria. Come summer, they said, the northern front would be ablaze. That, of course, didn’t come to pass. Nowadays, the buzz is all about the awful possibility that Israel will give up the Golan Heights in return…
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Opinion Israel’s War With Hezbollah Was Not a Failure
According to the final report released this week by the government-appointed Winograd Commission, Israel’s 2006 war against Hezbollah consisted of little but failures. For this Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was to blame, Defense Minister Amir Peretz was to blame, the Israeli military was to blame, everybody was to blame — and since the commission’s members…
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Opinion Prepare for the Day Iran Goes Nuclear, for Eventually It Will
President Bush’s time in office is running out, and so far he has been unable to convince the Pentagon, Congress or the American people of the need to leap into the Iranian lake before he can get out of the Iraqi puddle. Of course, Israel may carry out a strike against Iran on its own….
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Opinion The World Can Live With a Nuclear Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks and sounds as if he is in a panic — and the Iranian president, on tour in New York this week, has very good reason to be. Israel, which Ahmadinejad regards as his country’s great enemy, has just carried out what seems to be a very successful strike against an important Syrian…
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Opinion Israel Is Training for the Wrong War
In the year since last summer’s war with Hezbollah, the Israeli military has been busy preparing for the next round of violence. A number of commanders who proved to be incompetent, the chief of staff among them, have been fired. The military’s budget has been increased by $2 billion, with the extra money going toward…
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Opinion Let Palestine Split Into Two
Many divorces are bitter, and they rarely make for a pretty spectacle. Nevertheless, once the fireworks die down some of them end well. Quite often a divorce enables two people who cannot live together to go their separate ways, if not to achieve reconciliation then at any rate to find new partners and make a…
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