Israel Brief: Wednesday, May 13
Englman names what the state refused to fix, Landau pulls the bloc, and the Gulf goes on the record.
Englman’s Comptroller’s Day report cluster names the gaps five governments in a row preferred not to close. Landau pulled Degel HaTorah out of “the bloc.” And the Gulf is on the record — Reuters confirms Saudi strikes inside Iran in late March, Kuwait names the IRGC officers from the Bubiyan infiltration, the WSJ confirms the UAE hit on Lavan. Trump leaves for Beijing with that ledger in his pocket.
Today's Israel Brief reads the day the Gulf went on the record. Reuters confirms Saudi strikes inside Iran, Kuwait names the IRGC officers from Bubiyan, satellite imagery places Iranian assets at Pakistani bases — forty years of deniability cracking in one news cycle. Beyond the bullets, the full edition reads Englman's Comptroller's Day report as the cardiogram of a security state Israelis paid for and did not get, Landau pulling Degel HaTorah out of the bloc, and why the coalition rewrote the October 7 inquiry bill to lock the judiciary out.
Englman is reading aloud the cardiogram of the security state Israelis have been paying for and not getting.
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