Analysis
Thursday, February 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Laurence Norman WSJ, Feb. 19, 2023 “The news comes after the IAEA reported in early February that Iran had conducted nuclear work that wasn’t reported to it at the country’s heavily fortified Fordow underground enrichment facility.” United Nations atomic agency inspectors have detected uranium that has been enriched to near weapons-grade in Iran in recent […]
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Michael Lipin VOA News, Feb. 16, 2023 “We are looking at a holistic strategy, which encompasses all dimensions of Iranian activities, including in the nuclear field, in the regional field, the cooperation between Iran and Russia, and the internal situation in Iran, which has to be factored into any strategic thinking about this situation.” Israel’s […]
Thursday, February 23rd 2023
’ Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Feb. 20, 2023 “Military strategists guessing how a potential Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear program would look often suggest that the F-35 might go in first to remove the anti-aircraft missile system threat, but then that the F-15 aircraft (old or new) would do most of the actual striking […]
i24NEWS Calev Ben-David I24 News, Feb. 21, 2023 “It’s not just the problem of Israel, it’s the problem of the world. It’s the right time to take the relevant steps immediately.” In an exclusive interview with i24NEWS, Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen predicted that the Western world would impose “snapback” sanctions on Iran before the […]
Tuesday, February 21st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Carmit Balensi and Gallia Lindenstrauss INSS Insight No. 1689, Feb. 8, 2023 “A more likely explanation is that this is a political ploy by Erdogan ahead of upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, which were moved up and are now scheduled for May 14.” Since May 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to launch […]
Abdullah Bozkurt Nordic Monitor, Feb. 11, 2023 “Erdoğan, his family and his cronies in political and business establishments pocketed huge sums at the expense of the safety of citizens.” The large-scale destruction of property and huge number of casualties in Turkey’s massive earthquakes earlier this week have exposed decades of mismanagement, nepotism and waste […]
Bobby Ghosh Washington Post, Jan. 9, 2023 “Should Erdogan be defeated, says Sinan Ulgen, director of the Istanbul think tank EDAM, “his successor will transform Turkey into a different foreign policy actor, more comfortable with its position as a Western nation.” Among the many general elections of international consequence to watch this year, Nigeria’s, scheduled […]
Burak Bekdil Gatestone Institute, Feb. 3, 2023 “Most Turks still believe what they were taught at primary school: A Turk’s only friend is another Turk.” NATO is essentially a security alliance. Its preamble, however, states that the organization is founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. The grossly autocratic […]
Monday, February 20th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Jeffrey Mankoff Foreign Policy Research Institute, Jan. 25, 2023 “The most serious realist objection to continuing US support for Ukraine centers on the prospect that the conflict will escalate.” The scope of the Biden administration’s response to the invasion of Ukraine has already exceeded what many observers—not to mention Russia’s leadership—expected. From intelligence sharing with Kyiv […]
James Stavridis Washington Post, Jan. 25, 2023 “This is a win-win-win situation: The Ukrainians get much-needed but unsophisticated munitions for the brute-force war they are fighting; the US provides real combat power to Kyiv; and the Israelis have an opportunity to rebuild the stockpile in a manner better tailored to the exigencies of 21st-century war.” […]
Efrat Forsher Israel Hayom, Feb. 17, 2023 “Despair is spreading in Mykolaiv, and the war’s end is nowhere on the horizon, but the support of the struggle against Russia has not stopped. “We believe in the struggle and its righteousness,” said one of the residents.” Marking one year of Russia’s war with Ukraine, […]
Tovah Lazaroff Jerusalem Post, Feb. 18, 2023 “If Russia is the reason that Israel is hesitant to more firmly back Ukraine, then Iran, of course, is one of the critical reasons why it should.” The US Patriot anti-missile batteries that protected the small airport in Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport where Foreign Affairs Minister Eli Cohen flew […]
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