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Tracing the Roots of Israel’s Gaza War Strategy

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James M. Dorsey Times of Israel, July 21, 2024 “Nablus, with a population of 150,000 residents, “was one of the biggest laboratories in 2002 for the development of a new type of urban warfare. Israelis were studying how cities operate.”   The images of Israel’s reduction of Gaza to a pile of rubble and destructive West […]

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Israeli Deterrence and the October 7 Attack

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Amir Lupovici INSS Research Forum | July 2024 “If there are such great limitations on the ability to deter Hamas, how did it happen that Israel relied so extensively on this strategy?”   Introduction The brutal Hamas attack on October 7 brought up a variety of strategic issues, including questions about the strategy of deterrence and Israel’s […]

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Perception Warfare as Both Threat and Opportunity in Israel’s Post-October 7 Existential War

Dr. Dan Dyker Jerusalem Center for Public Policy, Aug. 8, 2024 “These methods of misinformation are part of a trend of mobilizing and exploiting advanced “perception warfare” alongside Iranian-backed Hizbullah and Hamas terrorism, which has intensified since the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.” Hamas’s cognitive war against Israel since its October 7 invasion has […]

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A Shift in Strategy: How Israel’s Recent Strikes Mark Its Military Emancipation

David M. Weinberg MSN, Aug. 3, 2024 “Israel’s strategic goals have become too limited in recent decades, hamstrung by the failed Oslo peace process with Palestinians and the failed Obama peace process with Iranians.” October 7 (Hamas’s invasion of Israel) and April 14 (Iran’s missile attack on Israel) demand that Jerusalem free itself from stale strategic paradigms. The […]

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Daily Briefing: KAMALA-WALZ: MORE OF THE SAME, BUT WORSE?

DARK CLOUDS AHEAD? WATCH:  The Coming Kamala Calamity and Israel: “The Caroline Glick Show” with guest David Wurmser, Ep. 110:  Caroline B. Glick, JNS, YouTube, Aug. 7, 2024 — Prepare to be rattled by the harsh realities Israel must confront to emerge victorious from the current crisis. American foreign policy specialist David Wurmser joins “The Caroline Glick Show” […]

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Josh Shapiro and the Unmaking of a Vice President

Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Aug. 6, 2024 “Shapiro being an affiliated synagogue member who attended Jewish day school and sends his own children to them, as well as has a record of support for Israel dating back to his youth, made him unacceptable to that crucial wing of the party.”   There was probably more […]

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The Reinvention of Kamala Harris

Gerard Baker WSJ, Aug. 5, 2024 “If the election is decided on the issues, on voters’ perceptions of the state of the country, Ms. Harris is surely in as much trouble as Mr. Biden was.” The only real question for the 90 days remaining in this presidential campaign: Can Operation Transfiguration succeed? Can the Democrats […]

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Telling Their Story: Israeli Warriors in a Political Game

Nils A. Haug Gatestone Institute, Aug. 7, 2024 “The administration has embargoed and slow-walked weapons transfers to Israel to prevent it from defeating Hamas or moving to offense against Hezbollah.”   “They are fighting like lions in these alleys, under constant threat. They are heroes. This is not a simple war,” recalled Lt. Col. Almog Rotem, a […]

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Is the Kamala Honeymoon Over?

Musa al-Gharbi Unherd, Aug. 6, 2024 “The biggest wildcard for Harris’s nascent campaign, though, is her leadership style. Over her time in California politics, Harris earned a reputation of being a cruel boss whose organisations operated in a dysfunctional way and with unusually high turnover.” In 2016, mainstream analysts were virtually certain that Donald Trump would not win the […]

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Isranet Daily Briefing

Daily Briefing: SINWAR TAKES OVER

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OFFENSE MEASURES   It’s Not a Border. It’s a Front.:  Brig. Gen. (res.) Eran Ortal, BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,290, Aug. 5, 2024 — Israel’s traditional security concept consisted of a defensive strategy based on mainly offensive tactics.  ‘Allah Vult’: Sinwar’s Hamas between Islamist Messianism and Hardline Convictions – Analysis:  Ohad Merlin, Jerusalem Post, Aug. 7, 2024 –– On […]

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The West’s Fear of Escalation Is Not Helpful

Professor Efraim Inbar JISS, Aug. 4, 2024 “Attrition warfare is the best outcome for the population-centric Iranian strategy and the worst possible scenario for Israel.” Governments in many capitals of the world have repeatedly expressed apprehensions about escalation of the Gaza conflict and Hezbollah’s war of attrition against Israel. They fear greater violence, more casualties and […]

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Ismail Haniyeh’s Place in Palestinian Politics

Khaled Abu Toameh Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Aug. 1, 2024 “Despite the Fatah-Hamas rivalry, Abbas and Haniyeh did not hesitate to meet or talk over the phone to discuss various issues, particularly ways of “reconciling” their rival parties.” At least two Palestinians have good reasons to be satisfied following the preemptive targeting of Ismail […]

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