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Friday, June 20th 2025
SHABBAT READING: The Scouts’ Report: From Rhetoric to Demagoguery: Dr. Sarah Schwartz, The Torah.com, June 24, 2022— When the scouts return from traversing the land, they display the cluster of grapes they brought with them, and offer a report that initially sounds positive: Num 13:27 …We came to the land you sent us to; it does […]
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Editorial Board WSJ, June 19, 2025 “Another difference with Iraq is that Iran actually has an advanced nuclear program, far beyond any civilian purpose.” The press is full of reporting on the “MAGA civil war” over Iran, but what’s notable is that the loudest isolationists appear to be losing the debate. It’s worth considering […]
Andrew C. McCarthy National Review, June 19, 2025 “We now know the U.S. intelligence community was unaware of Iran’s Fordow enrichment facility when it generated the 2007 NIE [which absurdly claimed that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program in 2003], and Israeli intelligence’s 2018 acquisition of Iran’s nuclear records proved the regime’s years of […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, June 19, 2025 “Of course, the Trump administration is already part of this war.” Pundits, like generals, seem always doomed to refight the last war. That’s the main thing to remember as the world watches the debate over whether the United States should join Israel in action to ensure that […]
Thursday, June 19th 2025 / Thursday, June 19th 2025
NEXT STEP? How Close Was Iran to the Bomb, And How Far Has Israel Pushed It Back?: David Horovitz, Times of Israel, June 18, 2025 — How close was Iran to the bomb, and how far has Israel now pushed it off? Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN’s nuclear weapons watchdog, the International Atomic […]
Thursday, June 19th 2025
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, June 17, 2025 “Iran is unquestionably the weakest link in the global axis of anti-American disruption, which includes our most bitter rivals, China and Russia.” Entering their fifth day, Israel’s sustained and extraordinary operations against Iran have demonstrated remarkable strategic precision and military effectiveness. […]
Benjamin Jensen Center for Strategic and International Studies, June 13, 2025 “While the operation is still ongoing, Rising Lion is a harbinger of how the U.S. Department of Defense needs to adapt to the changing character of war.” Just after midnight on June 13, 2025, an Israeli operation codenamed Rising Lion unfolded in two distinct but […]
Armin Rosen Tablet, June 17, 2025 “Can Israel destroy Fordow without American help? Yeah, I think so.” The United States is the only country in the world with the ability to destroy the Fordow nuclear facility quickly from the air, something we could accomplish by dropping a couple 15-ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs on […]
Kasra Aarabi Engelsberg Ideas, June 18, 2025 “While the IRGC has spent time, resources and blood over the decades in its costly pursuit of the nuclear weaponisation threshold, this pillar has always remained more aspirational than assured.” As Israel’s targeted strikes inside Iran continue, the longer-term implications for the Iranian regime’s military doctrine and […]
Tuesday, June 17th 2025 / Tuesday, June 17th 2025
Editorial Board WSJ, June 15, 2025 “Mr. Trump endorsed the initial attacks, though he continues to suggest that the bombing could increase the chances of a negotiated deal to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.” Israel continues to bomb key Iranian military sites, while Iran is firing missiles at Israeli cities. Central to an Israeli strategic […]
Tuesday, June 17th 2025
Peter Wildeford The Power Law, June 13, 2025 “This is the Fordow Paradox — the US can destroy Fordow while Israel cannot; Israel wants Fordow destroyed while the US does not.” About the author: Peter Wildeford is a top forecaster, ranked top 1% every year since 2022. Here, he shares the news and analysis that […]
Seth Cropsey WSJ, June 16, 2025 “Absent proxies, nuclear potential and a missile arsenal, Iran would lose its leverage over the Gulf states and its coercive potential against Israel and in the Levant.” The U.S. faces a consequential choice: take advantage of Israel’s audacious attacks on Iran to shepherd a new Middle East into […]
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