Analysis
Tuesday, April 16th 2024
Editorial Board WSJ, Apr. 14, 2024 “White House theories of escalation management don’t work against a regime that thinks a U.S. President fears escalation more than Iran does.” Iran’s drone and missile assault on Israel Saturday night into Sunday is an open act of aggression, but it isn’t the start of this conflict. It’s […]
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Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. WSJ, Apr. 14, 2024 “… it’s apparent that the Iranians are playing a weak hand.” Over the weekend Iran launched a ballistic-missile, drone and cruise-missile attack on Israel from its own soil. The attack was without subterfuge and of a scale well beyond any that preceded it. The strike was indiscriminate […]
Matti Friedman The Free Press, Apr. 14, 2024 “Last night should make clear, for those still in doubt, that Gaza is just one part of the broader story of Iran’s growing power and its tightening encirclement of Israel.” After a night of tension and aerial booms here in Jerusalem—including family time spent in the […]
Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Apr. 15, 2024 “From solidarity with Palestine to solidarity with warmongering Islamists: it’s so clearly hate for Israel, not love for peace, that motors these people.” How quickly the ‘Ceasefire Now!’ lobby turned into frothing warmongers. No sooner had Iran began its criminal bombardment of Israel than these phoney peaceniks were […]
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Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Apr. 14, 2024 “… one does not need to entirely eliminate a facility to render it useless. A repeated series of strikes could block Tehran’s access to electric power, bury its entrances and exits, and cut it off from the world.” Iran took its best shot (or a very […]
Jamie Dettmer, Gabriel Gavin and Christian Oliver Politico, Apr. 14, 2024 “He can either go for the head of the octopus, which is Tehran, arguing we have the legitimacy to do so now. Or he can say to the Americans: We understand that you don’t want us to escalate with Iran and we are ready […]
Emanuel Fabian, Times of Israel, Apr. 14, 2024 “Unlike the drones and cruise missiles, the ballistic missiles were shot down over Israel, leading the IDF to activate warning sirens over fears of falling shrapnel.” Sirens and explosions were heard nationwide in Israel early Sunday morning as Iran launched a wave of more than […]
Prof. David Bensoussan Le Soleil, Apr. 14, 2024 (trans. from the French) “Iran has an army of 580,000 people, with 200,000 reservists, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who form an autonomous corps.” This time, Iran is launching a direct attack on Israel: 150 drones, 70 cruise missiles and 100 ballistic missiles. The Israeli defense […]
Friday, April 12th 2024
Benny Morris NY Times, Apr. 11, 2024 “… the spectacle of Israeli weakness — as much as a Rafah offensive — could tempt Hezbollah to gamble on a full-scale war.” Unfortunately, Benjamin Netanyahu is right — “unfortunately,” I say, because he is the most incompetent, corrupt and divisive Israeli prime minister ever, as many […]
John Spencer and Liam Collins WSJ, Apr. 9, 2024 “There is no historical evidence that commando raids or a series of precision strikes have defeated a deeply entrenched urban defender.” The Biden administration is keeping the pressure on Israel not to invade Hamas’s final stronghold, in Rafah. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last month that such an […]
Shay Khatiri Middle East Forum, Apr. 10, 2024 “It is diplomatic narcissism for Blinken to believe that the Islamic Republic shapes its policies in reaction to the United States.” Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 17, 2024, Secretary of State Antony Blinken argued that a Palestinian state would bring security to the […]
Sherelle Jacobs The Telegraph, Apr. 8, 2024 “… the historic evidence is that military muscle can play a vital role in breaking faith in the fatally seductive idea that lurks behind all terrorist movements.” The view that Israel has embarked on a doomed Achillean killing rage in Palestine has become received wisdom in Western polite society. […]
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on January 30, 2023. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]](https://isranet.org/storage/Untitled-design-87-2.png "Secretary Blinken Meets With Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on January 30, 2023. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]")
