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Tuesday, June 17th 2025 / Tuesday, June 17th 2025
Editorial Board WSJ, June 15, 2025 “Mr. Trump endorsed the initial attacks, though he continues to suggest that the bombing could increase the chances of a negotiated deal to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.” Israel continues to bomb key Iranian military sites, while Iran is firing missiles at Israeli cities. Central to an Israeli strategic […]
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Tuesday, June 17th 2025
Peter Wildeford The Power Law, June 13, 2025 “This is the Fordow Paradox — the US can destroy Fordow while Israel cannot; Israel wants Fordow destroyed while the US does not.” About the author: Peter Wildeford is a top forecaster, ranked top 1% every year since 2022. Here, he shares the news and analysis that […]
Seth Cropsey WSJ, June 16, 2025 “Absent proxies, nuclear potential and a missile arsenal, Iran would lose its leverage over the Gulf states and its coercive potential against Israel and in the Levant.” The U.S. faces a consequential choice: take advantage of Israel’s audacious attacks on Iran to shepherd a new Middle East into […]
Noah Rothman National Review, June 13, 2025 “The Israelis have many lessons to teach us, but foremost among them is that there is no substitute for victory.” It hasn’t even been two weeks since the Ukrainians pulled off a defensive operation of such magisterial competence that it could only be compared with the feats achieved by Israel’s […]
Monday, June 16th 2025
Eli Lake The Free Press, June 15, 2025 “Trump himself has, in his public messaging, seemed to want to appease the warring sides of his coalition.” Since Israel began its war against Iran, President Trump and his White House have sent mixed messages, giving the warring factions of his political coalition reason to hope they […]
John Spence@SpencerGuard X, June 15, 2025 “Israel created a temporary operational corridor. It neutralized Iran’s ability to track or respond without needing to control every piece of sky.” Imagine if Operation Overlord in World War II began with the elimination of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German High Command; Heinrich Himmler, head of […]
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, June 15, 2025 “… while Egypt and Syria in 1973 used conventional armies to challenge Israel, Sinwar believed that mass terror could achieve even bloodier and more far-reaching results.” “In our view, the conditions in Israel after the Al-Aqsa Storm are historic, and in my opinion, it is the starting point […]
Edward Luttwack Unherd, June 13, 2025 “… his reports made it increasingly clear that Iran’s enormous expenditures, on some of the largest nuclear installations in the world, meant that it was after nuclear weapons as soon as possible.” One person is responsible for Israel’s attack on Iran: Rafael Mariano Grossi, the Argentine director general of […]
Friday, June 13th 2025
Melanie Phillips JNS, June 12, 2025 “The fact that Iran insists that it won’t abandon its right to uranium enrichment, or that the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog has now declared Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations for the first time in 20 years, will probably make precious little difference to such people.” The final chapter […]
Zvika Klein Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2025 “The deception campaign unfolded against a backdrop of domestic political drama over the IDF draft law and speculation that the coalition might collapse. “It was the perfect smoke screen.” Israel deliberately labeled Thursday night’s security-cabinet meeting as a discussion on hostage negotiations in order to lull Tehran and […]
Ron Kampeas Times of Israel, June 13, 2025 “Iran’s going to have to negotiate a little bit tougher, meaning, they’re going to have to give us some things they’re not willing to give us right now.” Israel’s strike on Iran starting early Friday morning followed a dizzying 24 hours in which the international community rebuked […]
David Horovitz Times of Israel, June 13, 2025 “We can’t leave these threats for the next generation because if we don’t act now, there will not be another generation.” The IDF, in an official statement issued soon after Israel began attacking Iran’s nuclear program, described the resort to force as a “preemptive strike.” Why preemptive? […]
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