Analysis
Thursday, January 11th 2024
Walter Russell Mead WSJ, Dec. 18, 2023 “As American power globally is perceived to recede, chances of escalation in the South China Sea rise.” With less than a year before a challenging election, the Biden administration risks getting caught in a political doom loop. President Biden’s perceived weakness at home undermines his authority in dealing […]
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Wednesday, January 10th 2024 / Wednesday, January 10th 2024
LOOMING ULTIMATUM? Iran Adds to Pressure on U.S. With Nuclear Program Acceleration: Lawrence Norman, WSJ, Dec. 26, 2023 — Iran has tripled production of nearly weapons-grade uranium in a move likely to deepen its confrontation with the West as Tehran helps allied militias to attack Israel and U.S. forces in the region. Iran, the Fulcrum of Mideast […]
Wednesday, January 10th 2024
Richard Goldberg National Review, Nov. 30, 2023 “Iran’s response to America’s taking its foot off the sanctions pedal was escalation on all fronts.” Hours before nearly 300,000 Americans gathered on the National Mall to show solidarity with Israel and condemn Hamas terrorism, the Biden administration sent a notification to Capitol Hill that upwards of $10 […]
David McCormick WSJ, Jan. 7, 2024 “Iran gets away with it because American politicians cave.” You could hear the demented joy through the phone. A young man standing in the Mefalsim kibbutz called his parents back in Gaza to brag about murdering 10 Jews on Oct. 7. They were elated. That was but one […]
Naftali Bennett WSJ, Dec. 28, 2023 “There are many ways to weaken Iran: empower domestic opposition, ensure internet continuity during riots against the regime, strengthen its enemies, increase sanctions and economic pressures. But Israel can’t and shouldn’t do this alone. The U.S. should be leading the effort.” Hamas and Islamic Jihad, backed by […]
Sander Gerbert and Robert Wexler The Hill, Jan. 4, 2024 “This doesn’t mean the two-state solution is impossible, but it does demand a realistic assessment of its current viability given Iranian opposition to a moderate Palestinian leadership that could actually make peace. The first step towards a revamped PA must be the elimination of […]
Tuesday, January 9th 2024
ISRAEL TARGETS RADWAN FORCES WATCH: The Targeted Killing of Saleh Al-Arouri in Lebanon: Implications for the Israel-Hamas War: Col (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah, Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jan. 4, 2024 Israeli Strike Kills a Hezbollah Commander In Lebanon, Sources In Lebanon Say: Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily, Yahoo News, Jan. 8, 2024 — […]
TOI staff Times of Israel, Dec. 29, 2024 “According to the Hezbollah source, Arouri “oversold” Hamas’s leaders on the support they could expect from Hezbollah and others.” Hamas alerted the leader of fellow terror group Hezbollah just minutes before launching its October 7 assault, according to a report this week, detailing rifts between various Iran-backed groups […]
Tal Schneider Times of Israel, Jan. 2, 2024 “Eventually, Hezbollah got everything it needed from the Koreans. By 2014, they’d had 25 years of interaction, in the course of which Hezbollah received knowledge and technology to the point where it was able to dig and build the tunnels by itself.” Two weeks ago, the IDF […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Jan. 4, 2024 “… a terrorist army like Hezbollah can only push so far. It has a lot to lose in Lebanon and it has become so large that it also has a lot of assets that are not easy to simply fold up and move.” For the past […]
Dan Diker Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jan. 8, 2024 “The Iranian regime’s proxy strategy, utilizing Hizbullah, Hamas, and the Houthis, intends to put Israel in a no-win position of all-out multi-front war while benefitting from the West’s mistaken conviction that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict drives the Middle East’s regional instability.” The Iran-backed Hamas war with […]
Monday, January 8th 2024 / Tuesday, January 9th 2024
ISIS- REDUX Israel vs. Hamas – What’s New?: Israel vs. Hamas – What’s New?: Lt.-Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Dr. Dan Diker, Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jan. 3, 2023 Why is the Gaza War Different?: Jonathan Spyer, JNS, Dec. 31, 2023 — The current Israeli operation in Gaza has led […]
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