Mar 09, 2022
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…
Dec 04, 2021
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…
Sep 09, 2021
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…
Sep 02, 2021
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…
Aug 28, 2021
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…
Aug 18, 2021
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…
Jul 27, 2021
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…
Jun 14, 2021
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…
Apr 16, 2021
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…
Apr 13, 2021
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.…