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Oct 29, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Ahron Bregman
Having won 72 seats at the general election, political pundits have been asking what the Lib Dems are going to do with their vastly increased presence in the House of Commons. The answer so far: not much. It’s remarkable how quiet the party has been, both in parliament and in the media. However, the Budget
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
engelsbergideas.com | Ahron Bregman
When I see Israeli troops and tanks in southern Lebanon, I get a sense of déja vu. I crossed the border into Lebanon twice during my six-year-long military service in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). The first time was during Israel’s 1978 Litani Campaign, when we rolled into Lebanon to inflict a blow on Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), following its terrorist attack on 11 March 1978, just north of Tel Aviv, in which 38 Israelis were killed.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
msn.com | Ahron Bregman
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
mirror.co.uk | Ahron Bregman
Even Israel’s sworn enemies will have to admit that its apparent James Bond-style operation in Lebanon has been impressive. I believe the Mossad – aided by other Israeli intelligence agencies – managed to install small bombs in pagers and other communication devices used by Hezbollah, detonate them, injure, and in some cases, kill Hezbollah operators. This has caused Hezbollah temporary operational difficulties. The Israeli operation also shakes Hezbollah’s confidence.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
ahron.substack.com | Ahron Bregman
When I was a student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in the early 1980s, I used to take the morning bus Route 4 to Mount Scopus, and, often, on that bus, there was a certain Orthodox philosopher, Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, who taught at the university.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
engelsbergideas.com | Ahron Bregman
While international attention is still firmly focused on the Gaza War and the growing crisis and escalation between Israel and Iran, it is just a matter of time before the focus shifts to the Israeli-Lebanese border, to the battle there between Israel and Hizbollah. In 1982, as a young artillery captain, I joined Israeli forces invading Lebanon, in what would later become known as the ‘First Lebanon War’ (originally, it was called ‘Operation Peace for Galilee’).
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
engelsbergideas.com | Ahron Bregman
During the Ottoman era, from 1517 to 1917, and the British rule in Palestine which began in 1917 and lasted until 1948, Jews hardly settled in the region now known as the West Bank, the land abutting the western bank of the river Jordan, the heartland of old Palestine.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Yossi Kuperwasser |Ahron Bregman |Rob Pinfold |Michael Milshtein
On 25/1/24, Fathom Deputy Editors Calev Ben-Dor and Jack Omer-Jackaman interviewed Michael Milshtein, a leading expert on the Palestinian arena. They discussed the failures which led to 7 October – which Milshtein characterises as a failure of understanding as much as intelligence – and the current state of Israel’s war in Gaza. Milshtein is the Head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel-Aviv University.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
engelsbergideas.com | Ahron Bregman
In the current war in Gaza, ‘Israel’s Central Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations’ – or ‘Mossad’ – is destined to play a critical role, particularly, in light of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration, in a press conference, that he has instructed Mossad ‘to target the heads of Hamas wherever they may be’. To ‘target’ means to kill them.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
fathomjournal.org | Rob Pinfold |Ahron Bregman |Shany Mor
Fathom editors Alan Johnson and Calev Ben Dor talk to Dr Shany Mor, lecturer in political thought at Reichman University in Herzliya, about his recent essay in Mosaic Magazine, “Ecstasy and Amnesia in the Gaza Strip”. Mor places the Hamas pogrom of October 7 in the context of three other attempted eliminationist struggles against Israel – the 1948 War of Independence, the 1967 Six Day War, and the 2000 Palestinian Intifada. Watch here.
