Shany Mor שני מור شني مور

@JudahAriGross @MaytalKowalski You forgot the first rule of being superior to the rest of the community: Horrific things said against us are always "criticism," but anything we say about them is always somehow illegitimate, counterproductive, and a mark of our total lack of sophistication.

@MaytalKowalski Counterpoint: It's far more patronizing and condescending to pat them on the head and pretend they've reached this conclusion through careful study and consideration, and not just blindly following the anti-zionist zeitgeist in progressive circles

I don't know when we decided the tactic for keeping younger Jews from moving away from Israel and Zionism would be to patronize and condescend to them, but I'd wager it won't work.

Read the entire article here: quillette.com/2026/07/13/res…

I also assess the strategic outcomes. 1956 didn't achieve its stated goals and ended up being a decisive strategic achievement for Israel. 1982 achieved more stated goals than 1956 and ended up being a colossal strategic failure. What are the implications for 2026?

For @Quillette I wrote about Israel's three wars of choice in 1956, 1982, 2026. In all three cases, a devastating opening blow was supposed to set in a motion a chain of events which would solve a pressing security concern as well as reshape the entire regional diplomatic order.

Three times, Israel has launched a carefully planned war to remake the Middle East: Suez 1956, Lebanon 1982, Iran 2026. But none of them resulted in regime change. @ShMMor in @Quillette on what happens when grand strategy collides with reality. quillette.com/2026/07/13/res…

An intelligence agency that actually manages to recruit a highly placed political figure in an enemy country—and presumably hopes to repeat such a success again—doesn't just expose its recruit once the specific operation fails, especially if he's still alive and still in country.

@yaakovkatz Luckily we only try this about once every 35 years, on average. quillette.com/2026/07/13/res…

As remarkable as the story of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recruitment and meeting with the Mossad chief in Hungary is, equally significant is the operation’s failure. Israel fought an undoubtedly legitimate war against Iran not only to degrade its nuclear and military capabilities, but also in the hope of triggering regime change. That didn’t happen. If anything, recent days suggest the regime feels emboldened. Could it still fall? Yes. But if it does, it will be because the Iranian people bring it down - not, at least for now, because Israel did. And in Israel there should be some sort of learning process - to see if the country potentially overreached in its expectation of what was possible.

@awstar11 Did someone say "Yalu River"?

Israel should bomb the enormous wall between Egypt and Gaza

In just two sentences, my friend Shany Mor (@ShMMor) captures the utter cluelessness of so much supposedly "learned" discourse about Israel's strategic predicament in both Gaza and the West Bank: "Israel can neither continue to occupy the West Bank nor consider withdrawing from it—as it must do if it is to remain a Jewish state and a democratic one—without radically disincentivising any further operations like the 7 October massacre. An enormous amount of learned discourse over the last three years has pretended not to understand the importance of this war aim, while simultaneously demanding measures that would make it unachievable." The real "problem"—in fact it is an extraordinary blessing—is that most liberal democracies in the West (with the notable exception of Ukraine) have not faced an existential military threat for more than eight decades. As a result, many have completely lost the ability to think about war in strategic terms: incentives, deterrence, trade-offs, military objectives. It's not just antisemitism or hostility toward Israel. It's also just historical amnesia and the luxury of having zero skin in the game. Shany's essay draws fascinating parallels with the 1956 Suez Crisis, exploring the double-edged nature of superpower involvement. Yet another reminder of why a @Quillette subscription is essential for understanding the world today. quillette.com/2026/07/13/res…

@DastDn @CathyYoung63 x.com/shmmor/status/…

It's wild watching the black electorate getting run over by the intersectionality bus, 5 years after BLM.

Israel has fought plenty of wars it didn't choose. But only three times has it started one as part of a sweeping plan to redraw the entire region. None of them went the way the planners expected, writes @ShMMor 🧵

<record scratch> אתם בטח תוהים איך הגעתי לכאן. איך, בעצם, כולנו הגענו לכאן...

@isaacdecastro x.com/ShMMor/status/…

The live stream language was taken from descriptions of October 7, which was literally live streamed on social media by Hamas militants.

@MaxNordau You laugh, but something very similar was the basis of a serious Guardian opinion piece a few years back. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“In the beginning, Gd created the heavens and the earth. But before He created the heavens and the earth, there was Palestine.” — Genesis 1:1

On the consequences of the moral credit system created by the western negative canon:

@JeffreyLax Here’s a Democrat who says no to the Platner Class. Genuinely progressive policies that win elections and improve lives, not a constant appeasement of the social resentments and prejudices of the gentrifier activists and third worldist trust fund babies.

@ShMMor what would saying no mean? if you mean like elite party people and not the voters

Facing a monumentally bad administration, and with policies that are broadly popular, the Democrats have squandered what should have been a wave year because they couldn't say no to the Platner Class and its stranglehold on party institutions and associated NGO's and influencers.