
Rosner’s Domain | Circle the Wagons or Reflect?
Responsibility means defending yourself — while also asking, with honesty, what you may have done to give those enemies an opening.
Shmuel Rosner is an Israeli columnist, editor, and researcher. He is the editor of the research and data-journalism website themadad.com, and is the political editor of the Jewish Journal.

Responsibility means defending yourself — while also asking, with honesty, what you may have done to give those enemies an opening.

Is there famine in Gaza? This is a surprisingly hard question to answer. Not because no one is trying to answer it, but because no one you fully trust is giving you the answer.

If we set aside the word “existential,” which is vague in meaning, the Iranians certainly have motivation, an ideology, a hostile regime, and malicious intent.

The Israeli public may be ready for a deal. But like most things in Israel, support comes with conditions and caveats.

They are not friends. People like them have no friends.

We are waiting. What other choice do we have?

The crippling of Iran’s nuclear threat, coupled with a weakening of its terror proxies across the region, has brought us to a moment of history.

Amid the triumph, the question of long-term purpose and chances of success remains.

It is not a change in their belief that Iran must be stopped from acquiring a nuclear weapon. It is a change in their belief about Israel’s ability to achieve that goal. That belief is the genuine shift.

For elections to happen, someone within the coalition must believe they have something to gain from them. A glance at the average polling numbers reveals a simple truth: no one in the current coalition has anything to gain.