Analysis
Monday, September 23rd 2024
Jonathan Spyer The Spectator, Sept. 17, 2024 “The return of residents to their northern border communities has now been defined as a war aim by Israel. Logic leads inexorably to the conclusion that only a major rearrangement of the situation north of the frontier — i.e. pushing Hezbollah’s forces away from the border line — […]
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Tuesday, September 3rd 2024
Itay Ilnai Israel Hayom, Sept. 1, 2024 “The reason for CENTCOM’s massive buildup, senior defense and political officials agree, is solely related to Iran.” On Monday, American General Charles Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, participated in a tour of the Israel-Lebanon border. Although this is only the second time Brown, the highest-ranking […]
Ben Fishman, Hanin Ghaddar, Assaf Orion and Dennis Ross Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Aug 27, 2024 “In its [Hezbollah’s] view, the current conflict has shifted the “buffer zone” between the two parties southward, posing enough of a threat to compel mass evacuations in northern Israel.” On August 25, Israel carried out large-scale preemptive […]
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Friday, August 30th 2024
*** SHABBAT READING Meat or Murder?: Dr. Yitzhag Feder, The Torah.com, July 28, 2013 — Is eating meat murder, or is it a mitzvah? While current Jewish practice might support the latter possibility – at least in the context of Shabbat and holiday meals, an examination of the laws in the Torah might lead in the […]
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 […]
Col. (res.) Gur Laish BESA, Aug. 19, 2024 “Throughout its short history, Israel has never been able to completely eliminate any of its enemies.” But can Israel eliminate Hamas (and Hezbollah)? Would attempting to do so be worth the practical price of the long war it would require? Would Israel’s society, economy, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tuesday, August 6th 2024
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Wednesday, April 17th 2024
NOW WHAT? Podcast: After the Iranian Attack on Israel—What Can Be Expected?: Adi Kantor, Danny Citrinowicz, and Chuck Freilich, INSS, Apr. 16, 2024 — After Iran’s leadership repeatedly threatened to retaliate for the assassination of its senior officer in Damascus, their reaction indeed finally came. How the U.S. Forged a Fragile Middle Eastern Alliance to Repel […]
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