Analysis
Tuesday, October 24th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, Oct. 17, 2023 “Ominously, for reportedly the first time in history, Iran raised a “black flag” over the iconic Imam Reza shrine on Tuesday, a move with potentially apocalyptic overtones given the significance of Imam Reza, or the “8th Imam,” to Shia Islam.” The signals being sent with President […]
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David Schencker Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Oct. 23, 2023 “Iran appears for the time being to be inclined to preserve Hezbollah—its most important deterrent asset against a potential Israeli strike on the theocracy’s nuclear programme—rather than degrade its capabilities in the service of Hamas.” October 23 marks the 40th anniversary of Lebanese […]
John Spencer Modern War Institute, Oct. 11, 2023 “… urban warfare presents challenges that extend well beyond the tactical level. On top of these are several that will challenge Israel’s efforts at the operational and even strategic level.” Shortly after a Hamas assault that produced the deadliest day Israel has suffered in decades, Israel declared […]
David Kilcullen Foreign Affairs, Oct. 23, 2023 “Urban combat is slow, grinding, destructive, and horrendously costly in human life.” Although the details are still difficult to predict, it seems very likely that Israel will mount a land invasion of the Gaza Strip in the near future. If and when that happens, the campaign will […]
Monday, October 23rd 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
Theodore Dalrymple City Journal, Oct. 12, 2023 “… the barbarians are within the gates.” The sight of thousands of young people in London celebrating the massacres that Hamas committed in Israel unsurprisingly made many people’s blood run cold. The demonstrators rejoiced not despite the brutality of what was done but because of it. What […]
Monday, October 23rd 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023
Jordan Peterson The Telegraph, Oct. 16, 2023 “This warped psychological perspective has an appeal to groups larger than just the core individuals, and in various surreal guises. How else are you to explain the staggeringly incomprehensible spectacle of, for example, ‘Queers for Palestine’ – perhaps the most egregious example of the union of the desire by ‘progressives’ […]
Simon Cottee UnHerd, Oct. 18, 2023 “… these Hamas murderers can and did think. And they had no doubt spent a lot of time wolfishly fantasising about how they would inflict maximum degradation on Jews. And they would have been able to entertain these demonic thoughts because they were raised in a culture that is […]
Boaz Munro Tablet, Oct. 19, 2023 “And I fell apart. For a few days, I felt like the country was sliding inexorably toward the unthinkable fate of 1940s Germany. After all, I thought, if people will shrug off beatings and swastikas, they’ll shrug off stabbings and shootings. And then they’ll shrug off pogroms—at least if […]
Friday, October 20th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Tom McTague UnHerd, Oct. 20, 2023 “At the heart of all these claims lies the same grim conclusion: that Israel itself is illegitimate, a settler state which should be wiped off the map as if it were some kind of Levantine Rhodesia.” “Great wars in history eventually became great wars about history,” wrote the […]
Friday, October 20th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023
Salem Alketbi Israel Hayom, Oct. 18, 2023 “The Iranian regime will not intervene directly because it knows that its creation and existence were essentially with Western and American support.” The Middle East has recently witnessed tragic and intense events marked by massive bloodshed, widening the scope of the conflict between Israel and terrorism. […]
Dr. Eado Hecht BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,215, Oct. 19, 2023 “even if we employ overwhelming power above ground, with virtually no restrictions because the civilians are not there to be hurt (though some probably will be, either because Hamas is trying to convince or compel them to stay or because some people always […]
Kim Ghattas The Atlantic, Oct. 18, 2023 “The unexpectedly high Israeli death toll may be one reason Nasrallah has kept silent—he is hedging, watching to see when and how far the Israeli army will go into Gaza, and whether Hamas will face an existential threat that requires Hezbollah’s response.” Villagers in southern Lebanon have […]
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