I’m Israeli. I’m Jewish. I’m a democrat. I’m liberal. I’m Zionist. I’m the former head of the Mossad.

As someone who’s devoted a lifetime to the defense of my country, eventually becoming director of Israel’s pivotal foreign-intelligence agency following a spell as national-security adviser, I take pride in understanding the nature of threats facing us and countering them covertly, powerfully and preemptively around the globe.

Modern wars no longer end in absolute victory or abject surrender, yet the state of Israel must win any conflict it enters.

That single sentence sums up the complexities of the Middle East, a place of contradiction and cyclical confrontation that rarely gives peace a chance.

The Jewish people have no alternative. We have no other homeland, no other refuge but the

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