Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, August 29th 2024 / Thursday, August 29th 2024
Exclusive: Top US General Says Risk of Broader War Eases a Bit After Israel-Hezbollah Exchange: Phil Stewart, Reuters, Aug. 26, 2024 — The near-term risk of a broader war in the Middle East has eased somewhat after Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah exchanged fire without further escalation but Iran still poses a significant danger as it weighs a […]
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Thursday, August 29th 2024
Jonathan Spyer Middle East Forum, Aug. 26, 2024 “Tehran’s desire now to preserve its assets and return the focus to the campaigns of attrition it prefers will have been well noted by both friend and foe.” Hezbollah’s response to the killing of senior official Fuad Shukr, when it finally came, was a more minor event […]
Sheldon Kirshner Times of Israel, Aug. 28, 2024 “Certainly, Iran’s intention is to stoke fear and anxiety among Israelis by slowing its response and capitalizing on speculation about when and how it will respond.” Nearly a month after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran has yet to fulfill its pledge to […]
Wednesday, August 21st 2024
Yair Lapid Times of Israel, Aug. 19, 2024 “By what moral code should Israel accept rocket barrages from terrorist organizations and rogue states?” Twelve innocent children were killed by Hezbollah at a soccer field in northern Israel. The next day I visited the site. Bloodstained bicycles were still strewn on the ground. I […]
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 […]
Tuesday, August 6th 2024
Can Kasapoğlu Hudson Institute, Aug. 2, 2024 “Even if Israel were to intercept 90 percent of Hezbollah’s projectiles, hundreds per day would still reach their targets unscathed.” Below, Hudson Senior Fellow Can Kasapoğlu offers an analysis of Hezbollah’s military capabilities and details why the war against Tehran’s Lebanese proxy would be an uphill battle for […]
Tuesday, July 30th 2024
CROSSING RED LINES Will Israel Go to War in Lebanon? Saturday’s Attack and What Might Come Next, Explained: Ben Sales, JTA, July 29, 2024 — On Saturday, a conflict that has been heating up for 10 months neared the verge of exploding into all-out war when a suspected Hezbollah missile killed 12 children and teens on a […]
Tuesday, July 30th 2024 / Tuesday, July 30th 2024
Nabih Bulos Los Angeles Times, July 26, 2024 “Paramount among the questions facing Hezbollah is how Israel managed to identify, track and kill top officers of the group, which has a reputation for high levels of operational security and discipline.” The first assassination took two tries. An Israeli drone fired a missile that hit […]
Brig. Gen. (res.) Eran Ortal BESA, July 21, 2024 “No progress regarding the return of the displaced Israelis will be achieved as a result of a war that would end in a (very) bloody draw and an agreement that Israel would not be able to believe in.” In a previous article I proposed that we […]
J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, July 27, 2024 “There is in any case no such thing as a “proportionate” response to having children at a recreational park blasted into bloody pieces.” This will be quick and focused. There is a lot else to say, but it’s more important to get these points out […]
Nathan J. Minsberg Israel Hayom, July 28, 2024 “There are images of dismembered children, their bodies torn apart by the blast, that prove the truth of this atrocity. Yet the world looks away.” Yesterday, on July 27th, an unthinkable tragedy struck the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli Northern region of […]
Thursday, July 18th 2024
IMPRESSIVE WATCH: Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem Youth Chorus Wow Judges on ‘America’s Got Talent’: Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner, July 17, 2024 — A youth choir from Jerusalem comprised of Israelis and Palestinians advanced through the audition round of the television show “America’s Got Talent” on Tuesday night after impressing all four judges with their rendition of […]
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