Analysis
Wednesday, October 25th 2023 / Tuesday, October 24th 2023
Gerard Laval Washington Times, Oct. 18, 2023 “A cease-fire in Gaza will merely be viewed by Hamas as a hiatus in the effort to achieve their ultimate objective (in this case the destruction of Israel and the murder of its Jewish citizens, as openly enunciated in their charter).” It is terribly immodest and even arrogant to quote oneself. […]
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Tuesday, October 24th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
Yaroslav Trafimov WSJ, Oct. 22, 2023 “The military paradox here is that, the faster Israel is forced to operate, the more it would have to use to brute force, increasing the civilian toll and the damage to Gaza’s infrastructure.” As Israel plans a ground operation in Gaza, aiming to eradicate Hamas, recent history elsewhere […]
David Schencker Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Oct. 23, 2023 “Iran appears for the time being to be inclined to preserve Hezbollah—its most important deterrent asset against a potential Israeli strike on the theocracy’s nuclear programme—rather than degrade its capabilities in the service of Hamas.” October 23 marks the 40th anniversary of Lebanese […]
John Spencer Modern War Institute, Oct. 11, 2023 “… urban warfare presents challenges that extend well beyond the tactical level. On top of these are several that will challenge Israel’s efforts at the operational and even strategic level.” Shortly after a Hamas assault that produced the deadliest day Israel has suffered in decades, Israel declared […]
David Kilcullen Foreign Affairs, Oct. 23, 2023 “Urban combat is slow, grinding, destructive, and horrendously costly in human life.” Although the details are still difficult to predict, it seems very likely that Israel will mount a land invasion of the Gaza Strip in the near future. If and when that happens, the campaign will […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Monday, October 23rd 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
ENOUGH BLAME TO GO AROUND Canada Faults Hamas for Gaza Hospital Blast, But Trudeau and Joly Remain Oddly Quiet: Michael Higgins, National Post, Oct. 22, 2023 — Is it expecting too much to hope that our prime minister and foreign affairs minister will act in a fair, principled and impartial manner? The answer, unfortunately, appears […]
Boaz Munro Tablet, Oct. 19, 2023 “And I fell apart. For a few days, I felt like the country was sliding inexorably toward the unthinkable fate of 1940s Germany. After all, I thought, if people will shrug off beatings and swastikas, they’ll shrug off stabbings and shootings. And then they’ll shrug off pogroms—at least if […]
Friday, October 20th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Tom McTague UnHerd, Oct. 20, 2023 “At the heart of all these claims lies the same grim conclusion: that Israel itself is illegitimate, a settler state which should be wiped off the map as if it were some kind of Levantine Rhodesia.” “Great wars in history eventually became great wars about history,” wrote the […]
Friday, October 20th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023
Dr. Eado Hecht BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,215, Oct. 19, 2023 “even if we employ overwhelming power above ground, with virtually no restrictions because the civilians are not there to be hurt (though some probably will be, either because Hamas is trying to convince or compel them to stay or because some people always […]
Kim Ghattas The Atlantic, Oct. 18, 2023 “The unexpectedly high Israeli death toll may be one reason Nasrallah has kept silent—he is hedging, watching to see when and how far the Israeli army will go into Gaza, and whether Hamas will face an existential threat that requires Hezbollah’s response.” Villagers in southern Lebanon have […]
Thursday, October 19th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Shaul Bartal BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,221, Oct. 17, 2023 “Hamas believes, like al-Qaeda, that the purpose of the Islamic caliphate is to fight the infidels and interlopers, led by the Jews. They believe this to be a continuous jihad that is not limited in time.” On May 2, 2011, […]
Matthew Continetti Washington Free Beacon, Oct. 17, 2023 “President Biden’s visit to Israel is an opportunity to rectify the past. To gain back lost ground, he must resist the temptation to treat the wars against Russia and Hamas as discrete.” When Joe Biden visits Israel on Wednesday, he will be the first U.S. president […]
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