Israel Brief: Sunday, May 10

Fire in Hormuz, the framework window still open — and, as expected, the AG files to block the next Mossad chief.

Since Thursday’s Brief, American destroyers traded fire with the IRGC inside Hormuz while the Witkoff-Kushner forty-eight-hour window stayed open into this afternoon. The IAF has been running the heaviest Lebanon cycle since the post-October 7 northern campaign, and Hezbollah answered school roofs in Nahariya with eight-hundred-dollar drones. Inside Israel, the AG’s office filed to bar the Mossad Appointments Committee from the courtroom.

Today's Israel Brief reads a week where Iran shot at American destroyers, the IAF ran its heaviest Lebanon cycle since the northern campaign, and the AG moved to bar the Mossad Appointments Committee from the courtroom. The flash bullets give you the events. The full edition gives you our read of why a live kinetic exchange did not close the framework window, why the AG filing names the Mossad chair as the next legal-guild target, and what Britain's council vote just cost Labour on Israel. Three theaters, one clock the framework cannot freeze.

Iran shot at American destroyers and the American destroyers got hit.

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