Analysis
Thursday, January 11th 2024
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs Hudson Institute, Jan. 2, 2024 “The nuclear posture designed to do this will require more deployed systems than were planned when China wasn’t considered America’s primary challenger.” The most dangerous global security development at the dawn of 2024 is China’s and Russia’s reliance on nuclear weapons to break the U.S.-led order. Russia […]
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Jerry Hendrix National Review, Nov. 30, 2023 “We find ourselves today facing a significant probability of global military cataclysm, and we are not ready.” The United States faces an imminent threat to its national security. Two authoritarian great powers, China and Russia, are actively moving to undermine its position as the leader of the free world, […]
Walter Russell Mead WSJ, Dec. 18, 2023 “As American power globally is perceived to recede, chances of escalation in the South China Sea rise.” With less than a year before a challenging election, the Biden administration risks getting caught in a political doom loop. President Biden’s perceived weakness at home undermines his authority in dealing […]
Wednesday, January 10th 2024
Richard Goldberg National Review, Nov. 30, 2023 “Iran’s response to America’s taking its foot off the sanctions pedal was escalation on all fronts.” Hours before nearly 300,000 Americans gathered on the National Mall to show solidarity with Israel and condemn Hamas terrorism, the Biden administration sent a notification to Capitol Hill that upwards of $10 […]
David McCormick WSJ, Jan. 7, 2024 “Iran gets away with it because American politicians cave.” You could hear the demented joy through the phone. A young man standing in the Mefalsim kibbutz called his parents back in Gaza to brag about murdering 10 Jews on Oct. 7. They were elated. That was but one […]
Naftali Bennett WSJ, Dec. 28, 2023 “There are many ways to weaken Iran: empower domestic opposition, ensure internet continuity during riots against the regime, strengthen its enemies, increase sanctions and economic pressures. But Israel can’t and shouldn’t do this alone. The U.S. should be leading the effort.” Hamas and Islamic Jihad, backed by […]
Sander Gerbert and Robert Wexler The Hill, Jan. 4, 2024 “This doesn’t mean the two-state solution is impossible, but it does demand a realistic assessment of its current viability given Iranian opposition to a moderate Palestinian leadership that could actually make peace. The first step towards a revamped PA must be the elimination of […]
Tuesday, January 9th 2024
TOI staff Times of Israel, Dec. 29, 2024 “According to the Hezbollah source, Arouri “oversold” Hamas’s leaders on the support they could expect from Hezbollah and others.” Hamas alerted the leader of fellow terror group Hezbollah just minutes before launching its October 7 assault, according to a report this week, detailing rifts between various Iran-backed groups […]
Tal Schneider Times of Israel, Jan. 2, 2024 “Eventually, Hezbollah got everything it needed from the Koreans. By 2014, they’d had 25 years of interaction, in the course of which Hezbollah received knowledge and technology to the point where it was able to dig and build the tunnels by itself.” Two weeks ago, the IDF […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Jan. 4, 2024 “… a terrorist army like Hezbollah can only push so far. It has a lot to lose in Lebanon and it has become so large that it also has a lot of assets that are not easy to simply fold up and move.” For the past […]
Dan Diker Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jan. 8, 2024 “The Iranian regime’s proxy strategy, utilizing Hizbullah, Hamas, and the Houthis, intends to put Israel in a no-win position of all-out multi-front war while benefitting from the West’s mistaken conviction that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict drives the Middle East’s regional instability.” The Iran-backed Hamas war with […]
Monday, January 8th 2024
Seth J. Frantzman FDD, Dec. 27, 2023 “This is why when many people hear the words “Shejaia,” or “Jabalya,” or “Beit Hanun,” it brings back memories of campaigns long ago, challenges met, adversaries bested, but with no real victory.” Israel has already churned through several phases: the initial response to the Hamas attack, the […]
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