Analysis
Tuesday, January 25th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Oubai Shahbandar Arab News, Jan. 20, 2022 “Preventing Iranian entrenchment in Syria is probably impossible. The question is the rate and quantity of Iranian entrenchment and the quality of this entrenchment.” Israeli airstrikes on Iranian and Hezbollah targets in Syria have been growing in scale and frequency in recent months as Tehran seeks to cement […]
Jonathan Spyer Jerusalem Post, Jan. 20, 2022 “… the timing and nature of the incidents, and their intensity, are significant. They are an indication not of Iranian strength, but rather of the relative disarray and confusion observable in the pro-Iran camp in Iraq at the present moment.” A series of bomb and grenade attacks have […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Jan. 19, 2022 “Iran has used the Houthis to attack Saudi Arabia and last year positioned Shahed 136 drones in Yemen. The drones have a range that can reach Israel. The distance from Yemen to the UAE is around 1,300 km. from where the rockets or drones might have been launched; […]
Monday, January 24th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Farnaz Fassihi and Lara Jakes NY Times, Jan. 12, 2022 Iran and the United States have recently engaged in a spiraling escalation of threats and warnings, even as they are progressing in diplomatic talks about reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. On Saturday, Iran’s Parliament placed largely symbolic sanctions on 51 Americans, many of them prominent […]
Lahav Harkov Jerusalem Post, Jan. 13, 2022 When asked how the indirect negotiations between the US and Iran to restore the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal were going, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki avoided answering the actual question, and instead launched into a revisionist history lesson blaming former president Donald Trump for Iran’s […]
Yoram Ettinger The Ettinger Report, Jan. 20, 2022 Ten days before the toppling of the Shah of Iran, president Jimmy Carter told a conference of world leaders on the Island of Guadeloupe that a Khomeini-led Iran “would not export revolution … and would be interested in buying tractors, not tanks.” On Jan. 11, six days before the […]
Joe Lieberman WSJ, Jan. 2, 2022 The biggest challenges the U.S. will face in 2022 won’t be Covid-19 or inflation but Russia and Iran. The way the Biden administration handles these two hostile, despotic governments may determine how secure our country will be for years. Moscow and Tehran are testing the administration’s foreign policy, which, […]
Friday, January 21st 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
The National Security Archive, Episode 17, May 13, 1997 “… there has never been, I believe, in the history of any nation, a transformation of fortune as abrupt and as speedy and as providential as that which the Jewish people had in that period, during the first two years of its existence.” INTERVIEWER: Thank you […]
Abba Eban NY Times, Nov. 3, 1975 “There is no difference whatever between anti‐Semitism and the denial of Israel’s statehood. Classical anti‐Semitism denies the equal rights of Jews as citizens within society. Anti‐Zionism denies the equal rights of the Jewish people to its lawful sovereignty within the community of nations.” The United Nations began its […]
Asaf Siniver Fathom, Summer 2016 “The same qualities which made Eban one of the most revered statesmen also made him a poor politician … he never became prime minister for a specific reason – because Israelis saw him as too far removed from the Israeli psyche.” Asaf Siniver’s biography of Abba Eban tells the story of an […]
Rick Richman Mosaic, May 20, 2021 “I was now personally directing a political operation that had no precedent in international history. No other state had ever been called upon to secure its membership in the international community through a process of cross-examination, advocacy, and rebuttals.” A week after its Declaration of Independence, as it fought […]
Thursday, January 20th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Middle East Forum, Jan. 18, 2022 The near-tragedy in Texas is a much needed reminder about the dangers of jihad. Here are six facts to consider following Malik Faisal Akram’s terrorist attack on the Colleyville, TX synagogue, where he demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, “Lady Al Qaeda,” from federal prison. 1. U.S. Vetting for Potential Jihadist […]
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