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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
Bret Stephens NY Times, Sept 24, 2024 “… the re-establishment of the Israeli-controlled security zone in southern Lebanon that existed from 1985 to 2000 might, for all the long-term problems it presents, be the least-bad alternative.” In 2006 Hezbollah launched a guerrilla raid into Israel. It led to a 34-day war that devastated Lebanon, […]
Thursday, September 26th 2024
Clifford D. May Higher Ground Times, Sept. 24, 2024 “… last Friday, unnamed Washington officials leaked a new policy that will please Iranian leader Ali Khamenei: President Biden plans to withdraw the tiny contingent of American forces — just 2,500 troops — from Iraq by 2026.” The long war that Iran’s rulers and their […]
Wednesday, September 25th 2024
STATE WITHIN A STATE Israel’s War Is Against Hezbollah, Not the Lebanese People: Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute, Sept. 25, 2024 — Some in the international media are misrepresenting the recent round of fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed terrorist organization, Hezbollah, as a war between Israel and Lebanon. *** Biden Tilts at Hezbollah Windmills: Editorial Board, WSJ, Sept. 24, 2024 […]
Ynet News, Sept. 24, 2024 “We’re waiting for their tanks. When they come, they’re welcome,” he boasted.” While the operation is focused on aerial attacks, the army has not ruled out the possibility of a ground incursion, according to IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari. He emphasized that Israel will do whatever is […]
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