Analysis
Tuesday, October 1st 2024
Edward Luttwack Unherd, Oct. 1, 2024 “Most of this cash comes from a single source: oil.” Through its early history — but not for the last four decades and more — the main threats to Israel’s security came from its Arab neighbours. That resulted in several wars against Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq. But […]
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Friday, August 30th 2024
Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet The Hill, Aug. 29, 2024 “David Albright reports for the Institute for Science and International Security that Iran could have enough weapons-grade HEU to build three nukes in 10 days, five nuclear weapons in a month and a total of nine in 60 days. Of course, constructing them is […]
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 […]
Thursday, August 29th 2024
Erfan Fard Israel Hayom, Aug. 26, 2024 “One of the most glaring issues facing the regime is its inability to accurately assess different scenarios and their potential consequences.” In recent years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has faced a series of escalating confrontations with Israel that have left the regime humiliated and increasingly vulnerable. […]
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
RESILIENCE AND TRUST Swords of Iron Survey Results – August 2024: Mora Deitch, Rebecca Meller, Idit Shafran Gittleman and Anat Shapira, INSS, Aug. 21, 2024 — Since the Swords of Iron war outbreak, the Institute for National Security Studies regularly conducts public opinion surveys to examine national resilience and public trust trends. *** Thinking the Thinkable: Israel’s […]
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 […]
Alex Winston Jerusalem Post, Aug. 20, 2024 “Iran is not in a position to fight Israel. They emphasized that ‘even if we launch an attack, we should immediately consider a ceasefire with international mediators.’” Iran is in no position to fight a long-term war with Israel and even asked the US […]
Wednesday, August 21st 2024 / Wednesday, August 21st 2024
Frederick Krantz Col. (Res.) Gur Laisch’s “The Long War Phenomenon” (BESA Center) is an important piece, offering a window into the strategic thinking of at least one component of Israel’s military intelligence sector. It explains one rationale for recurrent and seemingly defeatist media references of some Israeli military figures who note that Hamas “cannot […]
Monday, August 19th 2024
“Do these judgments suggest a leadership in Jerusalem that believes in the potential net benefits of a measured nuclear retaliation? Or do they suggest a leadership in Jerusalem that believes such a reprisal would bring upon Israel variously intolerable levels of conventional Iranian destruction? And is the leadership in Tehran expectedly rational?” – Louis Rene Beres […]
Monday, August 19th 2024 / Sunday, August 18th 2024
Michael Oren The Free Press, Aug. 15, 2024 “Hamas head Yahya Sinwar wants nothing more than a regional conflict that would draw the remaining Israeli troops from Gaza and vastly increase international pressure on the Jewish state.” For more than two weeks, Israelis have been waiting for war. Immediately after the July 31 assassination of […]
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