David M. Weinberg

There is no solution to the haredi draft issue. Haredi leaders are not budging – despite October 7, despite the near-existential threat situation Israel finds itself in across seven fronts, despite the attendant acute military manpower crisis, despite the enormous sacrifices in dead and wounded and kidnapped and displaced, and despite financial deprivation and household […]

Every Israeli-Palestinian peace deal since the 1993 Oslo process began required Palestinian authorities to dismantle terrorists’ infrastructure in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and the Gaza Strip, and prohibited a large-scale arms buildup, David Weinberg reminded participants in the Jewish Policy Center’s January 11 webinar. Palestinian demilitarization, a myth from early in the “peace process,” […]

From the dawn of the Oslo peace process, Israel insisted on Palestinian demilitarization. This meant that any degree of Palestinian independence from Israel in Judea, Samaria and Gaza was predicated upon prevention of symmetrical and asymmetrical military threats against Israel – including conventional warfare, terrorism, and guerilla warfare – from and via the territory of an […]