Analysis
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 […]
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Wednesday, August 7th 2024 / Wednesday, August 7th 2024
OFFENSE MEASURES It’s Not a Border. It’s a Front.: Brig. Gen. (res.) Eran Ortal, BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,290, Aug. 5, 2024 — Israel’s traditional security concept consisted of a defensive strategy based on mainly offensive tactics. ‘Allah Vult’: Sinwar’s Hamas between Islamist Messianism and Hardline Convictions – Analysis: Ohad Merlin, Jerusalem Post, Aug. 7, 2024 –– On […]
Wednesday, August 7th 2024
Seth Mandel Commentary, Aug. 6, 2024 “… the elevation of Sinwar isn’t itself unusual, but it wasn’t the plan and it puts all the hats on one man’s head.” Yahya Sinwar has been named the new head of Hamas’s political division, and congratulations are in order—mostly for Israel, which can see in Sinwar’s promotion the […]
Seth J. Frantzman The National Interest, July 31, 2024 “It was Haniyeh who led Gaza down the road of becoming a springboard for ever-larger attacks on Israel.” Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran on July 31. Haniyeh was one of the most well-known faces of Hamas in the region. Ever since he took over […]
Tuesday, August 6th 2024
INCREASING TIES WATCH: Iran Humiliated: How will the Islamic Republic Respond?: Alex Traiman and Josh Hasten, JNS TV WATCH: Biden and Harris Diminish Israel and Elevate Iran: Jonathan SS. Tobin and Michael Moran, JNS Iran Has Decided to Attack Israel; Foreign Minister Katz Says: Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, Aug. 5, 2024 MENA Defense Intelligence Digest | Hezbollah’s Asymmetric […]
Tony Badran Tablet, July 31, 2024 “The Obama team sees Jewish sovereignty as a destabilizing factor in the regional arrangement with Iran, which therefore must be constrained, if not out outright abolished.” According to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Israel has “effectively lost sovereignty” over the north of its own country thanks to […]
Debbie Weiss Algemeiner, Aug. 5, 2024 “The reaction of the world was extraordinary. By eliminating two mass murderers, they’re saying Israel has jeopardized peace. You can’t make this stuff up,” Oren said. “What foils the chances for a hostage agreement [with Hamas] and for regional stability is not standing up to terror and not fighting.” […]
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 […]
Tovah Lazaroff Jerusalem Post, Aug. 5, 2024 “Escalation is in no one’s interest. It’s not in the interest of any one country. It’s not in the interest of the region, and it’s certainly not in the interest of the millions of civilians who just want to live their lives free from violence and conflict.” […]
Monday, August 5th 2024
WHAT’S NEXT? Israel Brings Deterrence Back to the War on Terror: Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, Aug. 1, 2024 — Coming on the heels of strikes that killed Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif in Khan Younis and Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut, the assassination in Tehran of Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, sent clear messages to Hezbollah, Hamas and, most important, […]
Jonathan Spyer The Spectator, Aug. 3, 2024 “Is Israel prepared to up the ante to the point of regional war?” Following the killings of Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr and Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, Israel and the Middle East are poised and waiting for the next move. The two killings represent a significant humiliation for the Iran-led […]
Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Aug. 5, 2024 “Taking out Haniyeh while he was in Tehran was an unmistakable signal to disabuse Iran of the notion that it has immunity when it uses proxies to harm Israel.” In a dizzying three weeks, Israel has assassinated three titans of terror (though only officially taking credit for […]
J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, Aug. 2, 2024 “Although there is no reason to expect the current U.S. administration, which for rhetorical convenience I will call “Petunia,” to take any effective action in the Middle East crises of 2024, there are actions the U.S. could take that would do some good.” As usual, late-breaking news […]
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