Neil Rogachevsky

Jul 16, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Neil Rogachevsky

Should there be a National Commission of Inquiry into failures of the Israeli government and military around October 7? Scott Abramson leans towards an affirmative answer, while deftly highlighting the political and psychological consequences of similar commissions in the past. I have little to add to Abramson’s excellent historical analysis.

Mar 4, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Neil Rogachevsky

Print Email Kindle On Saturday, the IDF conducted a number of airstrikes on Hizballah and another Iran-controlled militia operating out of Lebanon. Such attacks play a crucial role in countering Tehran’s multifront war on Israel and may help to restore deterrence. But they do little to stop Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons, which appear to continue apace even as the Islamic Republic’s proxies attack Israel, the U.S. military, and international shipping. Farhad Rezaei writes: The...

Mar 4, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Neil Rogachevsky

Since the end of the Second Lebanon War (2006), Israel had enjoyed a run of relative safety and stability, unlike any period in its history—perhaps including the early Zionist settlements in Palestine in the 1880s. The suicide terror that had tested the social fabric during the 1990s and especially during the second intifada (2000–05), when thousands of Israelis were killed or injured, largely tapered off, despite occasional flare-ups.

Feb 11, 2024 | city-journal.org | Neil Rogachevsky

What has been, will not be again.”Via prolific social-media posting, the Jewish state’s typically ebullient minister of infrastructure, Israel Katz, attempted to turn these words into a war slogan in the early days of the new Middle East war. This war would not merely be about degrading Hamas but completely defeating the organization, militarily and politically. Regarding the nature of the conflict that began with Hamas’s savage attacks on October 7, the two sides were somewhat in agreement.

Jan 8, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Neil Rogachevsky

David Ben-Gurion died 50 years ago, December 1, 1973, at the age of eighty-seven. He lived just long enough to see the state survive the Yom Kippur War, its “most serious and cruel war,” as he described it in one of his final notes. He had been in reasonably good health until he suffered the first of two strokes a few days after the outbreak of the war.