Why Did Israel Strike Iran Now?
The balance of powers has become unhinged.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
In many ways, even Israelis who did not believe that Iran would attack Israel understood that an Iran that could attack Israel was a game changer.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Israel’s PR problems were about to turn into an existential threat.
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3660.
Ori Brafman • Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
The entire Middle East, and especially the Iranians, now knew that America would dither before enforcing an ultimatum.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
BEN-GURION UNDERSTOOD THAT TIME was not on his side. He had mobilized half of Israel’s able-bodied male population and some of the women, and the conflict clearly could not go on endlessly. Yet there were still Syrian, Egyptian, and Jordanian forces in pockets of the land originally assigned to Israel under the partition plan, and Ben-Gurion wanted
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