Analysis
Friday, August 9th 2024
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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Wednesday, August 7th 2024 / Wednesday, August 7th 2024
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 […]
Wednesday, August 7th 2024
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 […]
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 […]
Seth Mandel Commentary, Aug. 6, 2024 “… the elevation of Sinwar isn’t itself unusual, but it wasn’t the plan and it puts all the hats on one man’s head.” Yahya Sinwar has been named the new head of Hamas’s political division, and congratulations are in order—mostly for Israel, which can see in Sinwar’s promotion the […]
Tuesday, August 6th 2024
Debbie Weiss Algemeiner, Aug. 5, 2024 “The reaction of the world was extraordinary. By eliminating two mass murderers, they’re saying Israel has jeopardized peace. You can’t make this stuff up,” Oren said. “What foils the chances for a hostage agreement [with Hamas] and for regional stability is not standing up to terror and not fighting.” […]
Monday, August 5th 2024
Jonathan Spyer The Spectator, Aug. 3, 2024 “Is Israel prepared to up the ante to the point of regional war?” Following the killings of Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr and Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, Israel and the Middle East are poised and waiting for the next move. The two killings represent a significant humiliation for the Iran-led […]
Monday, August 5th 2024 / Monday, August 5th 2024
Yaakov Lappin JNS, Aug. 1, 2024 “Israel is basically implementing here the Munich Olympics revenge [program] that took about a decade to assassinate all those who were involved in the Munich ’72 massacre. So Israel opted to do the same to all these that were involved in the 7 October attack, and the killing, burning, […]
Friday, August 2nd 2024 / Friday, August 2nd 2024
SHABBAT READING Natural or Supernatural?: Matot, Masei • 5771, 5784: Covenant & Conversation, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — The book of Bamidbar draws to a close with an account of the cities of refuge, the six cities – three on each side of the Jordan – set apart as places to which people found innocent of murder, but guilty of manslaughter, were […]
Thursday, August 1st 2024
BAD WEEK FOR TERRORISTS Israel Strikes Again? Top IRGC Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh Assassinated in Syria’s Damascus, Claim Reports: Sunita Iyer, Asianet, July 31, 2024 — In a dramatic turn of events, unconfirmed reports from Syria suggest that Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Forces, has been […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, July 31, 2024 “They should be pursued because the goal of Israel in this conflict should be to win it, rather than to merely survive another day while holding onto the vain hope that gentle reason, international mediation or concessions by Jerusalem will achieve peace. Peace may one day be […]
Debbie Weiss Algemeiner, July 31, 2024 “Yadlin pointed out that the assassination occurred in Iran rather than Qatar, emphasizing that the choice was likely made to avoid jeopardizing ongoing hostage negotiations.” The assassination of exiled Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has sent shock waves through the Palestinian terrorist organization and the broader Middle East but, on […]
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