Analysis
Wednesday, March 19th 2025 / Wednesday, March 19th 2025
Stav Levaton Times of Israel, Mar. 18, 2025 “In a September 2021 conference held in Gaza titled “Promise of the Hereafter – Post-Liberation Palestine,” Palestinian factions openly discussed governing the entirety of Israel’s territory, “from the river to the sea.”” In the years leading up to its invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, Hamas developed a […]
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Friday, February 28th 2025
“Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, faces a dilemma: capitulate to Washington, which would bring sanctions relief but require a far more restrictive nuclear deal and the drastic curtailment of Iran’s assertive foreign policy, or pursue a nuclear weapon, inviting preemptive—and this time, potentially catastrophic—Israeli and American strikes.” — Christopher de Bellaigue *** SHABBAT READING Gersonides’ Scientific Interpretation […]
Friday, February 28th 2025 / Thursday, February 27th 2025
Jared Malsin, Alexander Ward, and Dov Lieber WSJ, Feb. 12, 2025 “Iran is more exposed than ever to strikes on its nuclear facilities. We have the opportunity to achieve our most important goal—to thwart and eliminate the existential threat to the State of Israel.” U.S. intelligence agencies concluded during the final days of the Biden […]
Jonathan Spyer Jerusalem Post, Feb. 21, 2025 “Iran’s disadvantage cannot be assumed as a now permanent factor in the Mideast strategic picture. Rather, it is an asset that will eventually decline or even disappear, unless exploited.” In a soon-to-be-published article in Middle East Quarterly magazine, Colin Winston, a 30-year veteran of the CIA and former head of […]
Christopher de Bellaigue Foreign Affairs, Feb. 25, 2025 “In Khamenei’s view, what matters is the long term.” Since October 7, 2023, the long arm of Iran has seemingly been everywhere in the crises that have beset the Middle East. With its eye on Hezbollah, Iran’s heavily armed Shiite ally in Lebanon, Israel was wholly unprepared […]
Robert Williams Gatestone, Feb. 26, 2025 “Iran is using organized and violent criminal gangs to carry out serious attacks within Sweden. Sweden is not at war. But there is no peace either.” Iran’s terror axis, thanks to Israel’s military operations, is finally beginning to collapse. Iranian terrorist proxies have been seeming to disintegrate across the […]
Friday, February 21st 2025
SHABBAT READING: GETTING THERE? Detecting and Halting an Iranian Weaponization Effort: Andria Stricker, FDD, Feb. 19, 2025 — A secret team of Iranian scientists is working to shorten the country’s route to nuclear weapons, according to current and former U.S. officials. This intelligence was collected during President Joe Biden’s final months in office, then relayed […]
Monday, February 10th 2025 / Sunday, February 9th 2025
Lahav Harkov Jewish Insider, Feb. 6, 2025 “… if there are a few small fish with problematic views for Israel, we can deal with it. All the senior people support Israel very much. Yesterday, at the Department of Defense, we heard very warm and supportive things from Hegseth. That guy [DiMino] sat in the room and heard […]
Wednesday, January 8th 2025
WHAT TO DO? Iran 2025: Nuclear Crisis Awaits Trump: Barak Ravid, Axios, Jan. 6, 2025 — Iran’s recent nuclear advances give President-elect Trump a crucial decision to make in his first months in office: Try to neutralize the threat through negotiations and pressure, or order a military strike. *** Israeli Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Program In 2025 […]
Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Jan. 6, 2025 “If the IDF could bring 120 Special Forces for three hours into Syria to destroy a sensitive Iranian facility, in the best-defended part of Syria from both air and on the ground after Damascus, why couldn’t Israel carry out an adapted version of such an operation at […]
Dov Lieber, Carrie Keller-Lynn and Saleh al-Batati WSJ, Jan. 6, 2025 “Israel is Israelizing the problem.” Over the past year, Israel’s military has proved adept at taking down threats to the country’s security. After the initial shock of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, Hamas’s top leadership has been largely neutralized. Iran’s other big ally in the region, […]
Benjamin Weinthal Fox News, Jan. 4, 2025 “After a year and a quarter dedicated to severing the octopus’s arms, Israel stands in 2025 at a historic crossroads for the confrontation Netanyahu has long sought and for which history will judge him: eliminating the nuclear threat once and for all.” Elite Israeli forces conducted a dramatic […]
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