Analysis

Tuesday, October 1st 2024

J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, Sept. 29, 2024 “As I’ve observed numerous times, the “ceasefire” leading to “two-state solution” is a solution in search of a problem. It’s a pushed narrative.  It’s not analysis.   It’s not self-evident in 2024 that it’s the answer to any question or problem.”   This will be just a few […]

Analysis

Tuesday, October 1st 2024

Mehul Srivastava, James Shotter, Charles Clover and Raya Jabali Financial Times, Sept. 29, 2024 “Hizbollah did not disappear in the last 10 days — we’ve damaged and degraded them and they are in the stage of chaos and mourning. But they still have lots of capabilities that are very threatening.”   In its 2006 war […]

Analysis

Tuesday, October 1st 2024

Yoni Ben Menachem Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Sept. 29, 2024 “Hassan Nasrallah failed to grasp that Israel is fighting for its survival in the region, and its citizens have no intention of leaving.” Since Hassan Nasrallah opened his war against Israel on October 8, he made a series of strategic miscalculations that […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, September 30th 2024

IMPOSSIBLE ACCOMPLISHED Jared Kushner@JaredKushner, X, Sept. 2024 — September 27th is the most important day in the Middle East since the Abraham Accords breakthrough. *** Killing Nasrallah:  Lee Smith, Tablet, Sept. 27, 2024 Israel’s Campaign to Kill Nasrallah, Hezbollah and Hamas:  Charles Lipson, The Spectator World, Sept. 2024 The Killing of Nasrallah—and the Virtue of Escalation:  Eli Lake, The Free […]

Analysis

Monday, September 30th 2024

Lee Smith Tablet, Sept. 27, 2024 “Wars are won by killing the enemy, above all, those who inspire their people to kill yours.”   Friday evening in the Levant, Israel targeted buildings in the southern suburbs of Beirut killing Hezbollah General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah. This operation represents a dramatic shift in Israeli strategy. Not only […]

Analysis

Monday, September 30th 2024

Charles Lipson The Spectator World, October 2024 “Israel did not ask anyone’s permission to defend itself. Why bother? The Europeans have been feckless and are now overwhelmed by immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa. If they can’t save their own countries, how can they be expected to save Israel?”   The killing of […]

Analysis

Monday, September 30th 2024

Eli Lake The Free Press, Sept. 29, 2024 “Western leaders have responded with reticence. In this they have revealed their profound confusion about the enemy. It is not a nation-state, a terror group, or even an ideology. From Washington to Paris, they seem to believe the real enemy is escalation.”   What Israel has managed […]

Analysis

Monday, September 30th 2024

Lilach Shoval Israel Hayom, Sept. 28, 2024 “Everything we planned went out accurately, without hitches – not in the intelligence planning aspect, not in the planes, and not in the execution itself.”   “We have three objectives: returning the hostages, dismantling Hamas, and safely bringing back the residents of the north. This remains our focus, despite […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, September 27th 2024

SHABBAT READING   God’s Absence:  Rabbi David Wolpe, TheTorah.com, Sept. 25, 2024 — A rabbi once came upon a child who was crying. He asked the child what was wrong, and the child answered: “I was hiding, and no one came to look for me.” The Rabbi ruefully responded, “God makes the same complaint.” — A Chasidic […]

Analysis

Friday, September 27th 2024

Brig. Gen. (res.) Eran Ortal BESA, Sept. 26, 2024 “Even after the assassination of Akil in the Dahaya district, Israel remains committed to the idea of ​​the “threshold of escalation”. “ The daring operations carried out by Israel in the northern arena in recent weeks deserve to be praised for the exceptional feats they were. According to The […]

Analysis

Friday, September 27th 2024

John Raine Engelsberg Ideas, Sept. 20, 2024 “While Hizbollah’s propaganda, like that of other members of the Axis of Resistance, promotes the idea of an inevitable, apocalyptic conflict with Israel in which its enemy is ultimately destroyed, in practice that is not what the Hizbollah leadership have sought.”   Israel has shifted gear in Lebanon. […]

Analysis

Friday, September 27th 2024

Lazar Berman Times of Israel, Sept. 26, 2024 “Hezbollah probes for weaknesses in Israel’s defenses, and erodes Iron Dome interceptor stocks, by launching growing numbers of drones recently.”   The IDF has been hammering Hezbollah since the Lebanese terror group began firing over the border the day after Hamas’s October 7 invasion of southern Israel. […]