Netanyahu Archives - David M. Weinberg

Israel’s grand diplomatic opportunities and escalating dangers must outweigh partisan political considerations

September 1, 2023

Self-restraint and maturity are required from the Israeli left and right alike, to allow wise navigation through the next tantalizing and threatening year.

Ehud Barak’s poisonous pyromania

July 28, 2023

His seditious warmongering is the true threat to Israeli democracy.

The refusal-to-serve festival

July 21, 2023

Lost in the anti-Netanyahu netherworld are manifold affirmations of commitment to IDF service despite the judicial reform juggernaut. These have evaporated into the thin air of supremely biased conventional Israeli media.

Best books of the past year

March 24, 2023

My fifth annual list (for 2022-2023) of favorite books on Israeli, Jewish and other matters, ranging from diplomacy to Torah commentary.

Strike while the iron is hot

January 6, 2023

Israel should implement policy change in concentrated fashion and plow through the chorus of international criticism. What doesn’t get done in the next 6-12 months will get bogged down in internecine squabbling or be impeded by accumulative foreign pressures.

A dicey diplomatic situation with Israel’s Gulf allies

November 25, 2022

I told interlocuters in the Arabian Gulf last weekend that Israel firmly will assert its sovereignty and governance in the face of Israeli Arab and Palestinian lawlessness. That is what most Israelis expect of their new government! At the same time, I assured Israel's Emirati and Bahraini allies that Israel will do so without racist incitement and delegitimizing rhetoric, and without crude demonstrations of its power, but rather with finely calibrated tools and from an approach of maximum willingness to dialogue. (I hope that I am right....)

Ten Tips for Netanyahu

November 4, 2022

Rule emphatically but be as inclusive as possible. Keep the foxes (Deri, Ben-Gvir) out of the henhouses. Prepare for war the right way. Build in Jerusalem. Engage the Jewish world. And more.

A salute to Netanyahu’s strategic leadership

June 18, 2021

Netanyahu was no saint, and he failed to adequately address several explosive Israeli identity issues. But the former prime minister had a grand strategy for Israel and successfully implemented it, tuning Israel into a regional powerhouse.

Fetters on Israel’s political passions

June 4, 2021

A straitjacket “change” coalition would be good for Israeli politics and society. National unity, however temporary and fragile, along with a change of leadership after 15 years, is necessary and worthwhile.

Ten commandments for the new Israeli government

May 15, 2020

Tolerate no hate. Brook no terror. Beef-up the IDF. Be cautious about applying sovereignty. Resist socialists in government. Repel pressures to free the coronavirus economy too fast.

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