Analysis
Wednesday, June 18th 2025
Mathias Döpfner Politico, June 16, 2025 “If Israel does not achieve its goals — destruction of the nuclear facilities, maximum weakening of the terrorist regime and, ideally, the removal of the mullahs — the world will quickly look very different.” When a society can no longer distinguish between good and evil, between victim and […]
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Avi Kalo Ynet News, June 16, 2025 “As the U.S. establishment voices praise for the IDF’s overwhelming operational success, it may also signal the erosion of a longstanding objection in Washington — held by successive presidents and much of the American intelligence community for over two decades — against a kinetic strike on Iran.” […]
Alexander Ward, Lara Seligman and Dustin Volz WSJ, June 17, 2025 “I don’t care what she said, I think they were very close to having them.” Before launching its attack on Iran last week, Israel provided the U.S. with intelligence it deemed alarming: Tehran was conducting renewed research useful for a nuclear weapon, including on an […]
Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, June 17, 2025 “… by February or March, IDF intelligence shifted its focus from concentrating on one center of gravity to multiple ones.” While all kinds of political and strategic stories in Israel, the US, and Iran led to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to give the order to go to […]
Friday, June 6th 2025
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 […]
Tuesday, January 14th 2025
Ran Baratz Mosaic Magazine, Jan. 6, 2025 “If the cold war had a deleterious effect on military thinking, the effect of the post-cold-war era was even worse.” The October 7 attack from Gaza was not supposed to have been possible. Israelis were continuously assured by the security establishment and political leaders that Hamas was “deterred,” […]
Thursday, December 12th 2024
Caroline B. Glick JNS, Dec. 6, 2024 “The public persecution of Feldstein and the NCO serves two ends. First, it seeks to criminalize Netanyahu and second, it aims to deter other intelligence officers from providing the prime minister with critical information about the war.” This week, Channel 11’s journalist Ayala Hasson broadcast a two-part exposé on […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Tuesday, September 3rd 2024
IDF or CENTCOM? Who Runs the Show in Israel’s Military: Itay Ilnai, Israel Hayom, Sept. 1, 2024 How the Israeli Intelligence Community Got Its Mojo Back: Marc Polymeropoulos, Atlantic Council, Aug. 27, 2024 Another One-Day War? What the Latest Hezbollah-Israel Clash Reveals About Deterrence and Escalation: Ben Fishman, Hanin Ghaddar, Assaf Orion and Dennis Ross, Washington Institute […]
Marc Polymeropoulos Atlantic Council, Aug. 27, 2024 “… the preemptive strike, based on the extraordinary collection, was de-escalatory in nature.” In my twenty-six-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), I found that there were many misnomers in the intelligence business that were shared by the public and even policymakers. One is the notion that […]
Monday, October 9th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Lilach Shoval Israel Hayom, Oct. 9, 2023 “… when the intelligence did not give any warning, even not a hint, the IDF top brass did not train the troops, did not order the deployment of Iron Domes, and this most serious incident caught most of the senior IDF commanders at home.” The Simchat Torah attack […]
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