Analysis
Monday, October 28th 2024
Melanie Phillips Substack, Oct. 27, 2024 “Israel’s strategic aim, he said, had changed. It would no longer tolerate Iranian aggression either directly or through its proxies and would now hold the Iranian regime itself accountable.” This morning, people have been trying to work out the significance of the Israeli strikes on Iran that […]
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Ron Ben-Yishai Ynet News, Oct. 26, 2024 “Last night’s attack on Iran represents a strategic and military masterpiece.” The Iranian leadership, spearheaded by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is currently grappling with a complex dilemma over whether and how to respond to last night’s Israeli airstrikes. This challenge arises from the need to balance three critical […]
Danny Zaken Israel Hayom, Oct. 22, 2024 “The US Treasury dropped a bombshell – fresh sanctions targeting Iran’s oil sector, but with a twist.” Let me share a tidbit in Persian – “An eqtesad ahmaqaneh ast.” It’s their way of saying, “It’s the economy, stupid” – that game-changing phrase from Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential victory. Today, […]
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Tuesday, October 22nd 2024 / Tuesday, October 22nd 2024
IRAN ON THE MOVE 7 East Jerusalem Men Arrested in Iran Spy Plot, Including Bid to Kill Nuclear Scientist: TOI staff, Times of Israel, Oct. 22, 2024 — Seven East Jerusalem Palestinians have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran and plotting attacks in Israel on the Islamic Republic’s behalf, the Israel Police and Shin Bet said Tuesday, […]
Tuesday, October 22nd 2024
Frank Gardner BBC, Oct. 21, 2024 “Glaringly absent from these documents is any mention of what targets Israel intends to hit in Iran, or when.” US investigators are trying to find out how a pair of highly classified intelligence documents were leaked online. The documents, which appeared on the messaging app Telegram on Friday, contain […]
Iran International, Oct. 20, 2024 “After a series of incidents that have raised serious questions, many people have been concerned about possible Iranian influence and infiltration in the US government, not to mention those with animus towards a key US partner Israel.” As Washington investigates a top-secret document leak regarding Israel’s retaliation plans […]
Stephen Bryen Weapons & Strategy, Oct. 20, 2024 “There can be no doubt that the leak of geospatial-origin intelligence has brought significant harm to Israel.” “Middle East Spectator,” is a pro-regime Telegram outlet based in Tehran, as all media channels based in Tehran are – by law. Last week, Middle East Spectator leaked two sensitive intelligence documents […]
Julian E. Barnes, Ronen Bergman and David E. Sanger NY Times, Oct. 19, 2024 “If the latest leak is confined to a pair of satellite documents, it will be far less damaging. But the Discord leak started with a few documents, only to see dozens and dozens of pages come to light.” The […]
Monday, October 21st 2024
J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, Oct. 20, 2024 “So Israel has to win, not just look for an excuse to “settle.” To invoke the framework of motives and methods laid out by Basil H. Liddell-Hart in his 1954 book Strategy, Israel has to seek a “better peace.”” In the aftermath of Yahya Sinwar’s death, it’s easy […]
Wednesday, October 9th 2024
Aaron MacLean Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute, no date “It is certainly tempting to argue that the Middle East, from the American strategic perspective, does not or ought not exist. The region is the scene of a generational strategic failure of American statesmen and the American foreign policy elite of both parties.” […]
Wednesday, October 2nd 2024
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger The Ettinger Report, Sept. 30, 2024 “Israel performs as the battle-tested research and development center of the US defense and aerospace industry, as well as the US Armed Forces, similar to its role as the site of research and development centers of some 250 US high tech giants.” Israel’s war on Hezbollah, Hamas and Houthi terrorists […]
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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