Martin Sherman

Dr. Martin Sherman served for seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli Defense establishment.  He was a ministerial adviser to Yitzhak Shamir's government and lectured for 20 years at Tel Aviv University in Political Science, International Relations and Strategic Studies.
 
He holds several university degrees: a B.Sc. (Physics and Geology), an MBA (Finance), and a PhD in political science and international relations. He was the first academic director of the internationally renowned Herzliya Conference and is the author of two books and numerous articles and policy papers on a wide range of political, diplomatic and security issues. 

He was born in South Africa and has lived in Israel since 1971.

Dr. Martin Sherman (www.martinsherman.net ) is founder and executive director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies (www.strategicisrael.org) 

A Palestinian refugee knocks on the closed gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters with his walking stick

Into the Fray: Five mendacious myths make one false narrative

A jewish man passes a banner which reads ‘Peace Now’ during a pro-Israel demonstration held in Amsterdam several years ago.

The political algorithms of the Arab-Israeli conflict

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signs the Paris Agreement on climate change at UN headquarters in New York

Into The Fray: A very simple conflict


Into the Fray: Staggering stupidity

By accepting the principle of two-states, successive Israeli leaders have impaled the nation on the horns of an irresolvable dilemma.

Then-PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (R) shakes hands with then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (L), as U.S. President Bill Clinton stands between them

Into the fray: The self-cannibalization of Europe (revisited)

The West’s socio-cultural heritage is undergoing a process of self-cannibalization, devoured by the very values that once made it so successful and influential.

A man reacts at a street memorial following Tuesday's bomb attacks in Brussels

Two-statism – The slim chance of success; the grim cost of failure

Obdurate refusal of two-staters to admit any possibility of error reveals ideological fanaticism and intellectual dishonesty.

Peace Now activists hold a protest in Jerusalem

Into the Fray: Stifling debate – BICOM’s blatant bias

BICOM seems determined to adhere to its commitment to two-state principles down to the last Palestinian – and to block debate on plausible alternatives.

European Union and Union flags fly outside a hotel in London, Britain

Into the Fray: Bombs in Brussels (or 'It’s Islam Stupid' revisited)

Islam is to terror as rainfall is to flooding.

A couple looks at the Eiffel Tower lit up in the colors of the Belgian flag in Paris

Into the Fray: Two-states dogma - The inanity and the insanity

As the passage of time exposes how implausible the two-state pipe-dream is, the more desperate, deluded, disingenuous the arguments in its defense become.

A masked Palestinian protester holds a knife during a protest near the Israeli border fence in northeast Gaza

Into the Fray: The tragic toll of the two-state travesty – on the Palestinians

No one has inflicted greater harm on Palestinian society than avid two-staters.

A Palestinian man hangs a Palestinian flag atop the ruins of a mosque, during a snow storm in West Bank village of Mufagara

The Australian Jewish establishment: Political truth vs political correctness – a sequel

INTO THE FRAY: The two-state paradigm has no redeeming features, neither in terms of moral merit nor political pragmatism

Israel Australia

To the Australian Jewish Establishment - Embrace political truth, not political correctness

INTO THE FRAY: By submitting to fashionable untruths of political correctness, Australia’s Jewish Establishment is doing a grave disservice to its mission and values.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

Into the Fray: Israel’s urgent imperative – A doctrine of the liberal hawk

Re-defining the political divide in Israel as “Doves vs Hawks” rather than “Left vs Right” is a matter of far-reaching substantive significance, well beyond mere semantics.

IDF soldier at West Bank checkpoint at Gush Etzion Junction.