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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 339

Zaki Shalom

Zaki Shalom

Professor Zaki Shalom is a member of the research staff at Ashkelon Academic College and the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv, Israel. He has published extensively on various facets of Israel's defense policy, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the role of the superpowers in the Middle East, and Israel's struggle against Islamic terror. His work has also focused on the study of Israel's nuclear option, both in historical and contemporary perspectives.
Baha Abu al-Ata, right, and two other senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad members in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 2, 2019, 1:05 pm
First-strike nation
Targeted killings in Gaza and Syria enhanced deterrence against Hamas and PIJ, but the strategy of preemption may be less useful against Hezbollah and Iran
By Zaki Shalom and Jacob Aaron Collier
On the eve of renewed sanctions by Washington, Iranian protesters burn a dollar banknote and a US makeshift flag during a demonstration outside the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran on November 4, 2018, marking the anniversary of its storming by student protesters that triggered a hostage crisis in 1979. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
November 12, 2018, 3:38 pm
Those ineffectual US sanctions
Here’s why punitive measures are not up to the task of convincing Iran or the PA to change their ways
By Zaki Shalom and Jacob Aaron Collier
A computer simulation released by the Russian Defense Ministry September 23, 2018, purports to show Israeli jets near a Russian reconnaissance plane, in red, off Syria's coast before it was accidentally shot down by Syria forces responding to the Israeli air strike. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
October 10, 2018, 3:44 pm
On edge about Iran
Diplomatic measures and economic sanctions are not working; the US and Israel need to find new responses to Iranian aggression
By Zaki Shalom and Jacob Aaron Collier
The first caravan is placed on the grounds of the new Amichai settlement for evacuees of the illegal Amona outpost on February 21, 2018. (Courtesy: Amona evacuees)
May 27, 2018, 2:26 pm
The US has toned down settlement rhetoric
There’s a new West Bank settlement and nobody seems all that concerned
By Zaki Shalom and Jonathan Mintzer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves part of an Iranian drone downed in Israeli airspace on February 10, 2018, during a speech on the third day of the 54th Munich Security Conference (MSC) held at the Bayerischer Hof hotel, in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2018. (Screen capture)
March 16, 2018, 1:29 am
An Iranian drone and Israel’s disproportionate response
Teheran will likely get the message and back down — but in case of a clash, Israel now has the upper hand
By Zaki Shalom and Jonathan Mintzer
US President Donald Trump holds up a proclamation to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, on Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
March 7, 2018, 12:59 pm
New US politics are shifting the peace process
Palestinian disillusionment, internal deadlock, and dismissal of the US as mediator may bring down the Palestinian leadership
By Zaki Shalom and Kobi Michael
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