Captured Files Reveal the Extent of Iran’s Nuclear-Weapons Program
An analysis of Israel’s intelligence coup.
June 11, 2018
Israel’s Strategy for Fighting Terrorists and Guerrillas Must Be Different from Its Strategy for Fighting Enemy Nations
The Ben-Gurion doctrine vs. the Dayan doctrine.
Israel’s basic grand strategy since the 1950s has involved fighting short decisive wars, preferably in enemy territory, with the goal of deterring its enemies from attempting future attacks. This approach—which Yagil Henkin terms the “Ben-Gurion doctrine”—proved successful against the Egyptian and Syrian armies, but is less suited to fighting unconventional wars. Thus Moshe Dayan developed an alternative strategy based on the belief that Israel, in Dayan’s words, “can’t prevent the murders of [Israeli] workers in orchards or of families sleeping in their beds at night, [but] what we can do is set a very high price for our blood, so high that no Arab locality, Arab army, or Arab government will want to pay it.” Exploring the ongoing tension between the two doctrines, Henkin shows why neither one was wholly adequate to the task of suppressing the second intifada:
June 11, 2018
Israel’s Strategy for Fighting Terrorists and Guerrillas Must Be Different from Its Strategy for Fighting Enemy Nations
The Ben-Gurion doctrine vs. the Dayan doctrine.
It’s Not Israel That Deprives Palestinians of Human Rights
A tale of two Palestinian women.
A Rare Sculpture—Possibly of a Biblical Monarch—Puts a Face on Ancient Israel
A miniature head.
Don’t Overdo the Impact of Jewish Experience on the Art of Chaim Soutine
Of pogroms and animal carcasses.