Analysis
Tuesday, June 10th 2025
Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, June 4, 2025 “What All of these creative arrangements have in common is that they are focused on symbolic victories for both Trump and Khamenei without seriously getting into the essence of what most endangers Israel about Iran’s nuclear program.” On April 12, the US and Iran held their […]
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Amine Ayoub Jerusalem Post, June 4, 2025 President Trump’s deadline for a deal to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program is fast approaching. Without a credible military threat, if Tehran fails to comply, the regime will confidently wait out the United States, call the president’s bluff and angle for a dangerously one-sided agreement. The odds of preventing a nuclear Iran peacefully have […]
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger The Ettinger Report, June 9, 2025 “Notwithstanding the signed JCPOA, the Ayatollah regime persisted in the development of nuclear capabilities, while bolstering its anti-US conventional and ballistic capabilities.” US negotiation vs. Iranian negotiation A self-destructive step undertaken by US negotiators has been the assumption that negotiation with the Ayatollah regime (and […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Monday, June 9th 2025
Greta the antisemite and her friends, I say clearly: you’d better turn back – because you will not reach Gaza.” — Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz GENERATE HEADLINES The Selfie Flotilla: Greta Thunberg’s Gaza Stunt and the Weaponization of Activism – Opinion: Arsen Ostrovsky, John Spencer, Jerusalem Post, June 8, 2025 — Greta Thunberg, having apparently […]
Becket Adams National Review, June 8, 2025 “With this worldview baked into so many reporters’ brains, it’s not surprising that there’s a readiness to publish even the most outrageous claims about the war, regardless of how absurd or lacking in evidentiary support they are.” If you believed the recent claims about starving babies in Gaza […]
Zach Goldberg Tablet, June 5, 2025 “If Israel’s war in Gaza qualifies as genocide, it would constitute a striking historical outlier.” Concept creep describes the phenomenon in which morally potent terms expand beyond their original definitions into ever broader applications. As these terms become more diluted, they also become politically weaponized, shifting public perceptions, priorities, […]
Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, June 4, 2025 “To destroy Hamas’s military capabilities and dismantle its governance capabilities, Israel needs to ensure, among other things, that it prevents Hamas from rearming and from receiving funds that it critically needs to support both its terrorist activities and its […]
Aviram Bellaishe Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, June 9, 2025 “Even the aid itself – the supposedly humanitarian part of the flotilla – is not free from propaganda.” Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attempted to sail to Gaza as part of an aid flotilla defined as humanitarian, but in practice constituted a […]
Friday, June 6th 2025
“While the relationship between Lebanon and Israel is far from warm, it is incomparable to the state of the ties a mere six months ago.” — Shimon Sherman SHABBAT READING: Samson: What Kind of Nazirite Was He?: Dr. Ely Levine, The Torah.com, May 14, 2013 — Among the various sections in parashat Naso (Num 4:21-7:89), […]
Dr. Eric R. Mandel JNS, May 31, 2025 “Lebanon’s new president, Joseph Khalil Aoun, is saying many of the right things, but he has also acknowledged that elements of Hezbollah may need to be incorporated into the LAF.” One year ago, the genocidal dictator of Syria was in power, propped up by his Iranian […]
Shimon Sherman JNS, June 5, 2025 “When combined with the destruction of over 70% of their missile arsenal, by IDF estimates, during Israel’s aerial campaign in the fall of 2024, a very diminished picture of Hezbollah emerges.” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi landed at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport on Tuesday morning in the most high-profile visit […]
Omar Abdel-Baqui and Adam Chamseddine WSJ, May 28, 2025 “We do see a lot of areas where the Lebanese army is way more effective than expected.” Lebanon’s army has largely disarmed Hezbollah in its southern strongholds—in part with the help of Israeli intelligence—as the country’s new government moves to enforce a cease-fire that halted […]
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