Analysis
Wednesday, April 17th 2024
Editorial Jerusalem Post, Apr. 16, 2024 “While retaliation is costly, the cost of inaction is higher.” In the volatile tapestry of Middle Eastern politics, the dawn of April 14, 2024, marked yet another escalation in regional tensions. Hundreds of Iranian drones, cruise, and ballistic missiles targeted Israel, punctuating a period of rising hostilities. However, the resilience […]
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Walter Russell Mead WSJ, Apr. 15, 2024 “What the president appears not yet to understand is that Iran has become so powerful, and America’s reputation as a source of sound policy and reliable support so weak, that only resolute American backing of our allies can turn the tide.” “Take the win,” President Biden reportedly advised Prime […]
Yigal Carmon JNS, Apr. 26, 2024 “Indeed, almost no one was hurt—but Israel’s deterrence was struck down by Washington’s coordination with Iran. Israel’s deterrence was sold out to save Iran’s.” To understand what happened in the Middle East overnight Saturday, one has to go back four years to the killing by the United States […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Tuesday, April 16th 2024
INCREASING TIES WATCH: Iran Launches Largest Drone & Missile Attack in History | Caroline Glick In-Focus, JNS TV, Apr. 15, 2024 — Iran launched the largest combined missile and drone attack in history on Saturday (April 13th, 2024) against Israel. Now, it stands behind the effort to paralyze the global economy. All the details and analysis about what […]
Editorial Board WSJ, Apr. 14, 2024 “White House theories of escalation management don’t work against a regime that thinks a U.S. President fears escalation more than Iran does.” Iran’s drone and missile assault on Israel Saturday night into Sunday is an open act of aggression, but it isn’t the start of this conflict. It’s […]
Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. WSJ, Apr. 14, 2024 “… it’s apparent that the Iranians are playing a weak hand.” Over the weekend Iran launched a ballistic-missile, drone and cruise-missile attack on Israel from its own soil. The attack was without subterfuge and of a scale well beyond any that preceded it. The strike was indiscriminate […]
Matti Friedman The Free Press, Apr. 14, 2024 “Last night should make clear, for those still in doubt, that Gaza is just one part of the broader story of Iran’s growing power and its tightening encirclement of Israel.” After a night of tension and aerial booms here in Jerusalem—including family time spent in the […]
Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Apr. 15, 2024 “From solidarity with Palestine to solidarity with warmongering Islamists: it’s so clearly hate for Israel, not love for peace, that motors these people.” How quickly the ‘Ceasefire Now!’ lobby turned into frothing warmongers. No sooner had Iran began its criminal bombardment of Israel than these phoney peaceniks were […]
Monday, April 15th 2024 / Monday, April 15th 2024
ATTN: CHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND JEWISH CHILDREN OF PARENTS OF EUROPEAN DESCENT: HOW HAS THE HOLOCAUST IMPACTED REACTIONS TO GAZA EVENTS TAKING PLACE TODAY? – QUESTIONNAIRE Dear Friends, I am including here a link to an online questionnaire devised by my colleague Prof. Shrira from Bar-Ilan University in Israel and by myself, and am […]
Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Apr. 14, 2024 “… one does not need to entirely eliminate a facility to render it useless. A repeated series of strikes could block Tehran’s access to electric power, bury its entrances and exits, and cut it off from the world.” Iran took its best shot (or a very […]
Jamie Dettmer, Gabriel Gavin and Christian Oliver Politico, Apr. 14, 2024 “He can either go for the head of the octopus, which is Tehran, arguing we have the legitimacy to do so now. Or he can say to the Americans: We understand that you don’t want us to escalate with Iran and we are ready […]
Prof. David Bensoussan Le Soleil, Apr. 14, 2024 (trans. from the French) “Iran has an army of 580,000 people, with 200,000 reservists, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who form an autonomous corps.” This time, Iran is launching a direct attack on Israel: 150 drones, 70 cruise missiles and 100 ballistic missiles. The Israeli defense […]
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