The IDF has now said that Israel’s goal was never to change the regime in Tehran itself, but to so weaken the regime’s power to repress its citizens as to create the conditions for the Iranians themselves to change the regime. There is a difference. More on Israel’s goal can be found here: “Senior Israeli […]
IDF Hits Targets Across Iran and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Research Facility In Tehran
While there has been much back-and-forth signaling in Washington about when the Iran war will/won’t/might/should come to an end, the IDF with less jaw-jaw and more war-war keeps up its relentless campaign to destroy Iran’s ballistic missiles, its missile launchers, an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) research facility, the headquarters of Quds force, and air […]
IDF: Regime Change Was Never Our Goal
The IDF has now said that Israel’s goal was never to change the regime in Tehran itself, but to so weaken the regime’s power to repress its citizens as to create the conditions for the Iranians themselves to change the regime. There is a difference. More on Israel’s goal can be found here: “Senior Israeli […]
Palestinian Islamic Jihad filling vacuum in West Bank as Hamas remains focused on Gaza
A year ago, Brigadier General Amir Avivi, founder and chairman of the Israel Defense And Security Forum, warned that many of the released “murderous terrorists” from prison would make their way to Judea and Samaria, establish militias, and wage jihad there. He added that significant military pressure will be required to be put “on the terror infrastructure in […]
IDF detains several Palestinians affiliated with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Judea and Samaria
The Palestinian “resistance” is part of the fabric of Palestinian society; the Palestinian Authority incentivizes it via its pay-for-slay program. Islamic State-linked activity has also been on the rise in Israel, particularly in Judea and Samaria. The Jerusalem Post reported in May that “Israel’s defense establishment warned of a sharp rise in involvement by Israeli […]
IDF Hits Hamas and Hezbollah Targets
In Gaza, Hamas still refuses to disarm, as it is required to do according to the Second Phase of the Trump Plan. And in Lebanon, Hezbollah has not turned its weapons over to the Lebanese Army, as it is obligated to do according to the ceasefire established between Israel and Lebanon. Israel has as a […]
Could the IDF Train Iranians to Fight the Regime with Iranian Weapons?
Over the years, the IDF has managed to acquire large amounts of Iranian weaponry that had been sent to both Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, and that the IDF subsequently seized. Instead of simply storing those weapons, the Middle East Forum fellow Elliot Nazar suggests that young Iranian protesters could be trained to […]
It’s Israel’s Economy, Stupid
The tiny Jewish state, the one so small you can hardly make it out on a map of the world, has been engaged for more than two years in a seven-front war: in Yemen with the Houthis, in Lebanon with Hezbollah, in Gaza with Hamas, in Iraq with the Shi’a militias, in Syria first with […]
IDF Chief Warns of Iran’s Buildup of Ballistic Missiles
The Iranians have been busily rebuilding their store of ballistic missiles that the IDF so devastated in the Twelve-Day War in July. And it is that threat, and not the nuclear one that has been set back by several years, that is now preoccupying Israel’s defense chiefs. More on the warning just given by IDF […]
Israel’s Minorities Joining the IDF
In the 1948 war, members of the Druze minority — who are not Muslims — fought on the side of the Jews. In 1956, the Israeli government made the Druze subject to the draft, the only minority so trusted. The Druze have turned out to be excellent soldiers; some have risen high in the IDF, […]