Analysis
Monday, October 9th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Alex Traiman JNS, Oct. 7, 2023 “The security failings raise the question of whether the Simchat Torah attack will be Prime Minister Netanyahu’s “Golda moment.”” Many questions and few answers abound as Israel has suffered its worst homefront attack, and perhaps its worst security and intelligence failure in the past fifty years. Instead of peacefully […]
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Lilach Shoval Israel Hayom, Oct. 9, 2023 “… when the intelligence did not give any warning, even not a hint, the IDF top brass did not train the troops, did not order the deployment of Iron Domes, and this most serious incident caught most of the senior IDF commanders at home.” The Simchat Torah attack […]
Jonathan Silver Mosaic Magazine, Oct. 9, 2023 “American Jews in particular have been tempted to historicize evil, and think that it belonged to an earlier, darker age. But the bruised corpses of Jewish women and men instantly and simultaneously displayed on phones around the world is a desecration that cannot be unseen.” The […]
Summer Said, Benit Faucan and Stephen Kalin WSJ, Oct. 8, 2023 “We know that there were meetings in Syria and in Lebanon with other leaders of the terror armies that surround Israel so obviously it’s easy to understand that they tried to coordinate. The proxies of Iran in our region, tried to be coordinated as […]
Friday, October 6th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Ronen Bergman, Or Fialkov Ynet News, Sept. 15, 2023 “In case of a system failure or a problem with the plane, you cannot return to base. You have one option: to fly to an open area at a remote location. Then, the pilot must make sure the plane is abandoned or the system is destroyed […]
Moshe Phillips Israel National News, Sept. 28, 2023 “Having prevented Israel from striking first, Kissinger then exploited Israel’s suffering in the early days of the war in order to advance his strategy.” There have been numerous articles, seminars, and lectures in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Yet, somehow, they […]
Michael Doran Mosaic Magazine, Oct. 2, 2023 “How could it be that these Egyptians were crossing the canal right in our faces? How was it that they were moving forward, and we were defeated?”” History records Israel’s triumph in 1967 as the Six-Day War, but the key operations that clinched the victory took closer to six hours than […]
Michael Oren WSJ, Sept. 28, 2023 “The result was a conflict that, in terms of its scale and complexity, was almost unmatched in the post-World War II era.” Recently, while walking in a Tel Aviv park, I was approached by a well-dressed, elderly man who recognized me—I once served as Israel’s ambassador to the […]
Thursday, October 5th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Lee Smith Tablet, Oct. 1, 2023 “… the IEI recruited several U.S.-based analysts, including Tabatabai, Ali Vaez, and Dina Esfandiary, all of whom willingly accepted Iranian guidance.” The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, […]
Jay Solomon Semafor, Sept.29, 2023 “This initiative which we call ‘Iran Experts Initiative (IEI)’ is consisted of a core group of 6-10 distinguished second-generation Iranians who have established affiliations with the leading international think-tanks and academic institutions, mainly in Europe and the US.” THE SCOOP In the spring of 2014, senior Iranian Foreign Ministry […]
Graeme Wood The Atlantic, Sept. 28, 2023 “… some of the reported exchanges between the Iran Experts and their convenor are mortifying.” When news comes out that someone has suffered an email breach, my first instinct is to pity them and practice extreme charity. I don’t remember any emails I wrote a decade ago, […]
Caroline Glick Carolineglick.com, Sept. 29, 2023 “Vaez, who served as the head of ICG’s Iran desk rewrote the Iranian draft and published it as a policy paper under his name and the ICG banner. Vaez called his laundered Iranian draft, “Iran and the P5+1: Solving the Nuclear Rubik’s Cube.”” There is something terribly disturbing […]
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