Analysis
Tuesday, September 3rd 2024
Marc Polymeropoulos Atlantic Council, Aug. 27, 2024 “… the preemptive strike, based on the extraordinary collection, was de-escalatory in nature.” In my twenty-six-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), I found that there were many misnomers in the intelligence business that were shared by the public and even policymakers. One is the notion that […]
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Ben Fishman, Hanin Ghaddar, Assaf Orion and Dennis Ross Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Aug 27, 2024 “In its [Hezbollah’s] view, the current conflict has shifted the “buffer zone” between the two parties southward, posing enough of a threat to compel mass evacuations in northern Israel.” On August 25, Israel carried out large-scale preemptive […]
Colonel (res.) Prof. Gabi Siboni JISS, Aug. 22, 2024 “Hamas’ control over humanitarian aid gives it breathing room and maintains its influence and power among the population.” After ten months of fighting, many ask why Hamas has not yet been destroyed yet?, and the full achievement of the war’s objectives has yet to be realized. […]
Friday, August 30th 2024
Prof. Louis René Beres Israel National News, July 29, 2024 “Israel is a state with no “strategic depth.”” “Into the eternal gloom, into fire, into ice.” Dante, Inferno As matters stand presently, it would not be in Iran’s interest to use NNEMP (non-nuclear EMP) weapons. This is because Israel could mount a higher […]
Prof. Louis René Beres Algemeiner, Apr. 16, 2024 “Even if Iran were not in a condition of active belligerency with the Jewish state, an Israeli preemptive action could still be law-enforcing. Israel, in the fashion of every state under world law, is entitled to existential self-defense.” Though Iran describes its drone and missile […]
Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet The Hill, Aug. 29, 2024 “David Albright reports for the Institute for Science and International Security that Iran could have enough weapons-grade HEU to build three nukes in 10 days, five nuclear weapons in a month and a total of nine in 60 days. Of course, constructing them is […]
Bill Gertz The Washington Times, August 28, 2024 “That detailed IRGC dossier was the ’wrong narrative’ as far as the Obama administration was concerned. It might jeopardize their precious Iran Deal, thus it had to not exist. Therefore, it never existed. Until I went whistleblower right here.” The CIA suppressed secrets from inside Iran during the Obama administration […]
Thursday, August 29th 2024
Erfan Fard Israel Hayom, Aug. 26, 2024 “One of the most glaring issues facing the regime is its inability to accurately assess different scenarios and their potential consequences.” In recent years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has faced a series of escalating confrontations with Israel that have left the regime humiliated and increasingly vulnerable. […]
Jonathan Spyer Middle East Forum, Aug. 26, 2024 “Tehran’s desire now to preserve its assets and return the focus to the campaigns of attrition it prefers will have been well noted by both friend and foe.” Hezbollah’s response to the killing of senior official Fuad Shukr, when it finally came, was a more minor event […]
Sheldon Kirshner Times of Israel, Aug. 28, 2024 “Certainly, Iran’s intention is to stoke fear and anxiety among Israelis by slowing its response and capitalizing on speculation about when and how it will respond.” Nearly a month after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran has yet to fulfill its pledge to […]
Nathan Klabin/The Media Line Jerusalem Post, Aug. 23, 2024 “Iran currently has two of the three critical components needed to assemble a nuclear weapon.” Recent developments in Iran’s nuclear ambitions indicate that the Islamic Republic is on the cusp of achieving a nuclear weapon. Many experts estimate that the Iranian regime should already have enough […]
Wednesday, August 28th 2024
Walter Russell Mead WSJ, Aug. 26, 2024 “Mr. Netanyahu is the bête noire of the international intelligentsia and the favorite whipping boy of the global press.” Almost a year into Israel’s most challenging conflict since the 1948-49 War of Independence, one thing is increasingly clear about its embattled prime minister. Love him or loathe […]
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