Analysis
Thursday, January 16th 2025
Itamar Eichner and Daniel Edelson Ynet News, Jan. 15, 2025 ‘Israel made it difficult, Hamas was the main obstacle’ Technical details in the agreement on the hostage release deal that is expected to come into effect in the coming days are still unresolved. The Israeli negotiation team, headed by Mossad Chief David Barnea, will remain […]
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Wednesday, January 15th 2025
Dov Lieber WSJ, Jan. 9, 2025 “In many cases, the European states that may be critical about Israel are still very keen on acquiring Israeli arms.” After a year marked by war and calls for isolating Israel on the world stage, its defense industry is on track to sell more weapons than ever in its […]
Israel Hayom, Jan. 8, 2025 “Turkey’s interests in turning Syria into a client state, thereby bolstering its regional influence, are clear. Our response includes on-the-ground actions and preparing for potential threats that could escalate rapidly.” Turkey’s attempt to turn Syria into a client state, replacing Iran and Russia as key influencers, is a growing concern […]
Hussain Abdul-Hussain Algemeiner, Jan. 14, 2025 “From an Arab perspective, of the three regional powers, the least expansive and intrusive is Israel, followed by Turkey, which puts its economy ahead of imperial ambitions and therefore limits its regional adventures.” Israel is perhaps the most muscular and influential power in the Middle East today. When Israel […]
Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Jan. 7, 2025 “Interestingly, Nagel did not think that the IDF’s size was inadequate on October 7, 2023, but does think it is inadequately small now in light of the seven fronts it faces challenges on.” The government commission headed by former national security council chief Jacob Nagel issued its […]
Tuesday, January 14th 2025
Marten Zwanenburg and Johanna Trittenbach Lieber Institute, Dec 23, 2024 “The court stated that the primary question in this case was whether, and to what extent, a court in summary proceedings can exercise judicial review of the State’s foreign and defense policy.” On Friday 13 December 2024, the District Court of the Hague handed down its judgment in […]
Ran Baratz Mosaic Magazine, Jan. 6, 2025 “If the cold war had a deleterious effect on military thinking, the effect of the post-cold-war era was even worse.” The October 7 attack from Gaza was not supposed to have been possible. Israelis were continuously assured by the security establishment and political leaders that Hamas was “deterred,” […]
Michael Horowitz and Joshua Schwartz War on the Rocks, Dec. 18, 2024 “… precise weaponry is now much more widely available to weak powers than it was in the past, and the low cost of many of these systems enables actors to deploy precision technology at scale.” From strikes by uncrewed aerial systems launching precision […]
Victor Davis Hanson Toronto Sun, Jan. 10, 2025 “But 2025 is certainly not 2017 or even 2020. And a “reset” in thinking on both sides is urgently now needed more than ever.” Consider these European and American binaries. On Dec. 20, 2024, a terrorist, Taleb Al-Abdul Mohsen, rammed his SUV into a Christmas crowd in […]
Monday, January 13th 2025
Melanie Phillips JNS, Jan. 5, 2025 “This myopia derives from a refusal by the Western establishment to acknowledge that Islamic radicalism is rooted in Islamic theology.” How many wake-up calls does a society need before it takes notice? On New Year’s Day, a terrorist rammed a truck bearing an Islamic State flag into revelers on […]
Andrew C. McCarthy National Review, Jan. 11, 2025 “Doctrine matters to our enemies. Which is why it should matter to us.” On our pages, over a decade ago, I scoffed at a colleague who had suggested that ISIS — the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, which used to be the Iraqi franchise of its now rival al-Qaeda […]
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger The Ettinger Report, Jan. 7, 2025 “This [Islamic] ideology is triumphalist, totalitarian and apocalyptic. It is founded in revelation, not reason.” According to Sir John Jenkins of University of Cambridge, a world leading expert on the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic terrorism, and contrary to the US State Department’s worldview: “… The key to confronting the Islamist challenge […]
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