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Israel Brief
Everything tagged Israel Brief — Mitzpe analysis, dossiers, and press coverage.
Analysis & dossiers
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Thursday, August 27
Eisenkot rules out a Palestinian state and the E1 tender in one interview, and Britain writes a trade ban its own officials say it cannot police.
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Wednesday, August 26
Theoretically Washington will not strike Iran before November, and the Israelis never agreed to the pause.
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Tuesday, August 25
Washington announces the campaign it is not yet willing to enforce, and Israel spends the day taking the weapons stores out from under the mosques.
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Monday, August 24
America opened an economic war on Iran and pointed it at the neutrals.
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Sunday, August 23
Hezbollah picks Israeli engineers over Lebanese soldiers on Ali al-Taher — and Washington stops describing the Iran sanctions as anything but regime change.
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Thursday, August 20
Israel called Damascus before it bombed the airbase, and somebody finally audited the database behind the "genocide" charge.
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Wednesday, August 19
Iran fires ballistic missiles at Emirati waters and loses its last Gulf market by midnight, and Trump declares the talks over.
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Tuesday, August 18
Kushner leaves Jerusalem with Israel's sequence and the pullback still open — and Likud's members spare all three men the prime minister's circle marked.
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Monday, August 17
Iran comes out of the sixty-day memorandum with the Revolutionary Guards over the regular army and a bounty on any American soldier.
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Sunday, August 16
Hezbollah spends a drone on a ridge it has already lost, and Katz moves to take civilian policing in Judea and Samaria off the army.
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Thursday, August 13
Israel is putting soldiers and caravans onto ground it means to keep, and reading the objections afterward.
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Wednesday, August 12
Israeli fire crosses the Yellow Line for the first time under the new approval rules, and Likud's own court freezes a Netanyahu slot.
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Tuesday, August 11
Trump parks the Iran strike until after November, and Netanyahu takes eleven of Likud's top twenty-nine places out of his members' hands.
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Monday, August 10
Netanyahu rejects a roadmap Israel is already performing, and nobody in Washington minds.
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Sunday, August 9
Israel has signed nothing, and the roadmap is running anyway.
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Thursday, August 6
Israel answers southern Lebanon with the narrow round and leaves the rest unsettled — while the campaign at home turns on who serves.
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Wednesday, August 5
The halt Israel tried to refuse arrived anyway, and the terms reopening Hormuz leave Iran administering the water.
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Tuesday, August 4
The Board of Peace rewrites its withdrawal terms after Netanyahu says no. The deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz waits on the Revolutionary Guards.
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Sunday, August 2
Trump called off the Iran strike again and announced Israel's agreement to the deal that replaced it — Jerusalem has said nothing.
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Thursday, July 30
The interceptor shortage that stopped the American campaign is now the argument for widening it, and Trump has decided nothing.
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Wednesday, July 29
Iran's missiles land in Jordan and the answer lands in Iraq, while Israel spends the day arguing over who gets to enforce its own law.
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Tuesday, July 28
One Washington meeting now decides the Iran strike, the Turkish jets, Lebanon, and Gaza's force — and Israel holds the pen on none of them.
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Monday, July 27
Israel holds the ground on every front and none of the rooms where the wars are being settled, from a six-man committee in Tehran to the UN.
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Sunday, July 26
Washington halts its Iran strikes and hands Tehran time, the coalition opens its campaign contested from within, and the diaspora takes the week's blows as Tisha B'Av ends.
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Wednesday, July 22
Trump answers Tehran's pause with Pickaxe Mountain, Aoun promises Washington forever, and Netanyahu runs against the exemption he legislated.
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Tuesday, July 21
Tehran asks Washington for ten days on the tenth night of American strikes, a military prison fence gives way in Beit Lid, and London changes hands.
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Monday, July 20
Iron Dome fires into a war Israel is not in, while Likud hands Netanyahu his slate and the attorney general reaches for Ben-Gvir's seat.
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Sunday, July 19
The Iran war takes American lives with Israel kept out of it, as the coalition rewires its referees and dissolves into the October campaign.
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Thursday, July 16
Washington's Iran war widens around an Israel firing no shot, the High Court freezes the day-old draft-arrest law, and the American floor drops in caucus and West Wing alike.
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Wednesday, July 15
Trump trades the Hormuz toll for a blockade of every Iranian port, and the arrest freeze passes 58-54 over the chief of staff's written refusal.
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Tuesday, July 14
Washington seizes Hormuz and strikes Iran a third night — at home the Knesset writes Torah study into a Basic Law and adds two months to the men who serve.
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Monday, July 13
Israel watches its most dangerous war fought out on Washington's and Tehran's calendars. At home, it calls an October 27 election.
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Sunday, July 12
The coalition spends its final week before recess to freeze a haredi bloc already cracking beneath it, as Washington strikes Iran a third time and Israel holds its fire.
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Thursday, July 9
Israel goes to its highest alert over a war it is not in, as Washington strikes Iran again, rehabilitates Sharaa's Syria, and the draft law collapses at home.
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Wednesday, July 8
Trump ends the ceasefire and Washington answers Iran with its heaviest strikes in months, while the coalition defies the High Court and the West crosses fifty on "genocide."
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Tuesday, July 7
Hamas sheds Gaza's government and keeps the gun, Tehran stages its mourning in red, and the cabinet walks back its own court defiance by lunch.
