Prof. Kobi Michael: Israel’s relationship with Hezbollah is one I term ‘kinetic diplomacy’. Israel already fights on seven fronts — Iran is the hand that shakes the cradle. Iran determines the intensity on all the other fronts.
Published in Arab News, December 22, 2023.
Only full Israel military control of the territories adjacent to Israel has any chance of preventing enemy military build-up. Webinar briefing for the Washington DC-based Jewish Policy Center.
12.1.2024.
Dr. Yossi Mansharof: Israel must target Iran and its Qods Force
Interview to Bloomberg News 12.01.2024
Ruth Wasserman Lande : ‘There seems to be a kind of competition between Qatar and Egypt…they are both competing to be the bringer and the taker of the negotiations’
Kobi Michael: the Israeli military “conforms to the law of war” and is making efforts to minimize civilian casualties, even at the expense of its own troops.
Published in Arab News, December 22, 2023.
David M. Weinberg of the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, in Jerusalem, on KAN Israel Radio in English (25.12.2023): On the need to expand rapid-response squads in Israel, including haredi volunteers; and on (fake) accusations of Jewish settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Dr. Adi Schwartz explains that after the war Israel will insist on de-Nazification of Palestinian society in Gaza and the West Bank. UNRWA cannot be part of the solution because it is an agent of radicalization and warfare against Israel.
The interview was on the i24 TV 06.12.2023.
Former National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat says the government has an enormous commitment to release every hostage possible, while understanding the risks of a pause in fighting.
Published by Globes, November 22, 2023.
