The hallmark of the Gaza war was the immensely successful initial operation. In the opening minutes of the war, Israel had bombed 95% of the targets: armories and arsenals, troops and installations. One would expect the army to learn from that success and expand on in in the next wars. Well, Jews learn backwards. According to the Jerusalem Post report, the army developed a new doctrine which does exactly the opposite: instead of bombing the enemy by surprise, the army would start with... Full Story

In another slap in Biden’s face, IAF bombed Gaza tunnels the day after he left our country. IAF bombing raids are ludicrous: there is no conceivable sense to bomb two tunnels out of 400. More importantly, IAF bombs them in a way to minimize Palestinian casualties. Since IAF refrains from bombing the Egyptian end of the tunnels, smugglers run there in case of attack and survive. Egypt employs a more fearful tactics of flooding the tunnels, so that smugglers die – which frightens... Full Story

As Obama’s envoy Mitchell is about to arrive in Israel to start shuttling between Jerusalem and Ramallah in the indirect peace talks, Israeli media predict that his involvement would intensify American pressure on Israel because Obama cannot afford to lose once his administration is involved directly. Wrong. Obama lost on many issues, and his loss on this one will, at most, cause a few I-told-you-so in the State Department, while remaining entirely irrelevant to common Americans. The... Full Story

Israel Air Force unveiled its huge Heron TP drone. Deployed secretly for more than a year, Heron TP is not the largest drone in the world, but close to the mark. As with other weapons, Israeli drone development suffers from small production scale. Much lower R&D costs so far allow Israel Air Industries to compete, but step by step the corporation migrates abroad. Unless Israel breaks free from American export restrictions, drone production will go the way of Lavi jets, Merkava tanks, and... Full Story

The Egyptians blew the whistle: Israeli and US navies operate in the Persian Gulf. The only plausible reason is to prepare commando landings, as the Egyptians had correctly figured out. Special troops will deactivate Iranian air defenses and clear the way for Israeli strike. IAF landing on American aircraft carriers in Persian Gulf is a very remote possibility. If true, the attack would mark another touch of genius, right after we saw one in the Gaza war. Commando raids so deep into the enemy... Full Story

Sudan Once again Israel has done it, it struck thousands miles away, in a clear massage to Iran. By Yossi Melman, Amos Harel and Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondents Two senior Sudanese politicians confirmed Thursday that unidentified aircraft attacked a convoy of suspected arms smugglers as it drove through Sudan toward Egypt in January, killing almost everyone in the convoy. An American news network said that the attack was carried out by the Israel Air Force. CBS reported that the IAF... Full Story