Avigdor Haselkorn

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Dec 24, 2024, 5:07 AM

Israel’s Syrian Blitz

The IDF’s Syrian blitz dubbed operation “Arrow of Bashan” is the clearest manifestation yet of an Israeli preemptive doctrine. The offensive eliminated the vast majority of Syria’s strategic capabilities, as well as took over the buffer zone on the mutual border—including...

Oct 15, 2024, 11:25 AM

Did Iran Go Off the Deep End?

Iran has been commonly viewed as a risk-averse actor that weighs options carefully and deliberately. Accordingly, it is inherently a rational, cautious player, as evidenced by its single-minded use of proxies to pursue its decades-old aggressive regional designs. In a...

Sep 27, 2024, 6:26 PM

Israel’s New Weapon of Mass Destruction

Israel’s 2024 population comprised 0.12% of the world’s population. Its territory amounts to 88% of Maryland’s. And yet on September 17 and 18, this tiny nation most likely caused armies the world over to rethink their military doctrines. This...

Sep 24, 2024, 6:44 AM

Israel’s Existential Fronts

It is high time to state that as long as Israel maintains its nuclear monopoly in the Middle East, no combination of external fronts can threaten its existence militarily. In fact, by some measures the IDF’s superiority over Israel’s...

Sep 17, 2024, 11:53 PM

Biden is Incentivizing Iran’s Political Blackmail

Many analysts in the Middle East and elsewhere are wondering why the promises of “punishment” issued by Iran and the Lebanese terrorist army Hezbollah in the wake of the killings of the latter’s “chief of staff” Fuad Shukr, and...

Apr 26, 2024, 8:59 AM

Conception: Not Just an Israeli Minefield

Ever since October 7, Israelis have been immersed in discussions, analyses and denouncements of the strategic and intelligence conceptions which hampered correct thinking and which enabled Hamas to launch a catastrophic surprise attack on the country. Much was also said...

Sep 5, 2022, 6:45 AM

A Russo-Iranian Plot to Turn the Tables on the West

On July 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Iran on an official visit and held meetings with its President Ebrahim Raisi and its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. There are substantial grounds to believe that during those meetings a...

Aug 6, 2022, 8:03 PM

Lapid: Amateur Hour or a Master Act?

Earlier this month, at a ceremony marking the installation of a new head of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC), Prime Minister Yair Lapid made several statements which merit close scrutiny. The Prime Minister said “ operational arena ...is made...

Jul 29, 2022, 10:08 PM

Will Iran preempt?

As the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program continues apace, the debate in Israel and abroad has focused almost exclusively on the likelihood of an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Little if anything has been said at least in public...

Jul 22, 2022, 5:22 PM

Will Hezbollah Strike the Karish Rig?

In recent days the leader of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah repeatedly threatened to attack the Israeli Karish gas drilling rig, which is based in the Mediterranean, if his demands are ignored. Naturally the question arises as...

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Dr. Avigdor Haselkorn is a strategic analyst and the author of books, articles and op-eds on national security issues.