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Domestic Oppression Is Raising the Risk of Middle East War
The danger of open warfare involving Israel and Iran is increasing. One recent omen was a drone attack, which nearly all observers attributed to Israel, on a military facility in...
Can Iran Stop Israel’s Normalization with the Muslim World?
Since Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi came to office in August 2021, his administration has prioritized developing relations with Iran’s neighbors and regional states. Meanwhile, Israel, Iran’s sworn enemy, has also...
This Is How Israel Would Fight A War With Iran and Its Fearsome
Here’s What You Need to Remember: It would not take much for Tel Aviv and Tehran to engage in combat. The Middle East is aflame from Baghdad to Gaza. But the...
Yes, Israel and Iran Did Team Up Once — to Crush Iraq’s Nuclear Bomb Program
Here’s What You Need to Remember: This obscure but portentous raid, and the context in which it occurred, was documented in-depth by Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop in a fascinating article...
In an Israeli-Iran War, Neither Nation Would Come Out Unscathed
Here’s What You Need to Remember: While Iran could undoubtedly overwhelm Israeli missile defenses by firing enough rockets, the Arrow system means Tehran can’t be sure how many missiles would get...
As Biden Talks to Iran, Israel Gears Up for War
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Israel has already carried out sabotage and assassinations inside Iran itself to derail its nuclear program, including allegedly bombing the Natanz enrichment facility in July...
Why Israel Isn’t Going to Bomb Iran
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Tel Aviv would also benefit indirectly from a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal and possible rapprochement. That’s because either of these agreements would spark panic in Sunni...
Netanyahu’s Priorities and U.S. Responses
Recently I wrote about the two-sided Saudi policy on Iran, in which Riyadh sees good reason to take quiet steps to reduce tension with its neighbor across the Persian Gulf...
Bad Move: The Backfiring of Israeli Strategy on Iran
Those paying attention both to the Israeli government’s implacable opposition against the agreement restricting Iran’s nuclear program and to the issue of Iran’s other activity in the Middle East might...
An Agreement That Is Good for Israel, Bad for Netanyahu
One of the strangest aspects of the frantic crying of alarm over Iran’s nuclear program—with the crying having reached its most publicized peak in Benjamin Netanyahu’s Republican/Likud campaign rally in...
The Real Subject of Netanyahu’s Congressional Spectacle (It Isn’t Nukes)
Benjamin Netanyahu will talk next week, as he has innumerable times before, about how an Iranian nuclear weapon is supposedly an extremely grave and imminent (he has been saying for...
It’s the Economy, and Bibi Isn’t Stupid
A recent poll confirmed what other polls and many observers have noted about concerns of the Israeli public as Israel’s general election next month approaches. Presented with a list of...