Michael Doran is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, specialising in Middle East security issues. In the administration of George W. Bush, Doran served as a senior director in the National Security Council, senior advisor in the State Department and deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Pentagon. His book, Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, was published by Free Press in 2016.
Our Voice of the Fortnight is from the Times of Israel's 'Wartime Diaries' podcast. In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, Shai Davidai – an Assistant Professor at Columbia University – became an unlikely public defender of Israel. And truthfully, even he was surprised by this turn of events: As a committed left-wing Israeli, he had spent years criticizing the government, and often took to the streets to demonstrate against its policies. But the atmosphere he witnessed on college campuses (and specifically on his own campus at Columbia), compelled him to speak up and speak out.