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Former IDF intelligence chief @HaymanTamir says if America wants to remain the leader of the free world, then it should continue supporting Israel.

“Supporting Israel, the outposts in the Middle East, that brings your value into existence,” says Hayman. “If it was not there, the battle will be otherwise in a much more closer to the United States.”

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Former IDF intelligence chief @HaymanTamir says the loss of American public support is a “major strategic problem” for Israel.

“Israel should…return back to its formal consensus of the flourishing Jewish state that only wants to live with peace and harmony inside the Middle East and to be a safe haven for Jews worldwide as a nation state of the Jews, but a democratic flourishing state.”

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The U.S.-Israel operation against Iran has been "amazing" on a technical level, says @HaymanTamir, but the strategic results are less clear.

"It's a malign country that is the root of most of the problems in the Middle East... That's the main problem. And that really hasn't changed yet."

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According to the @nytimes, Israeli leaders told the U.S. before the war that Iran was ripe for regime change and would be too weak to choke off the Strait of Hormuz.

@HaymanTamir, former chief of the @IDF intelligence unit, says that is not what intelligence showed.

"We know about the Iranians, they are not bluffing. When they say something, they will execute."

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"The Iranian regime survived the worst-case scenario."

@HaymanTamir of @INSSIsrael explains why a post-war Iran led by Mojtaba Khamenei with an intact nuclear weapons program could present a "dangerous combination" for the U.S. and Israel.

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"I cannot really imagine Israeli national security without the full backing of the United States."

@HaymanTamir of @INSSIsrael assesses the state of U.S.-Israel relations amid the war in Iran--and what it means for Israel's future.

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Former @IDF intelligence chief @HaymanTamir fears Israel has lost its status as a bipartisan priority in the U.S.

"Israel, right now, it's either being labeled as a one-party state that leans to the Republican Party, or even more is tied up with Trump, as Trump's country, which is really something that in the long-term will work against Israel."

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As Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff lead U.S. negotiations with Iran, former @IDF intelligence official @HaymanTamir worries they may be "missing the point"--and misreading the Iranian regime.

"Iranians are proud, will not bend in front of pressure and pain...They don't have midterm elections and they don't have a transition or election in two years."

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"There is a fundamental truth that it's hard to explain: we are fighting for our life," says @INSSIsrael Executive Director @HaymanTamir.

"It's hard to believe that a flourishing state like Israel is fighting for its life. But it's true."

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The New York Times has reported the U.S. and Israel hoped to install former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s new leader.

Former IDF intelligence chief @HaymanTamir says the “centerpiece” of the plan involved a Kurdish invasion, which President Trump “definitely” canceled.

“There was a sequence of special operations, very, very unique that was supposed to happen. And Ahmadinejad was a part of that sequence. The rest of the operations are not fully disclosed with the public, except for the Kurdish invasion.”

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Can Trump get a better nuclear deal with Iran than Obama?

"It will be harder right now because as long as time passes, they are becoming more and more confident that United States doesn't really want to reengage in warfare," says @INSSIsrael Executive Director @HaymanTamir.

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How the war plan against Iran went haywire.

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After the successful U.S. military operation in Venezuela, @HaymanTamir of @INSSIsrael suggests #PresidentTrump was emboldened to pursue regime change in Iran.

"I think hope covered rational thinking... And that hope probably energized some positive, over-positive thinking about the outcome of the war."

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Former @IDF intelligence chief @HaymanTamir says he is “worried” about the deterioration of America’s support for Israel, and blames Israeli politicians’ “foolish statements” and “not acknowledging some compassion” for what happened in Gaza.

“We should be proud on how moral and how restricted we were in order to prevent casualties in order to avoid famine.”

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Former @IDF intelligence chief @HaymanTamir warns extending a ceasefire could benefit Iran.

"The time that passes is being used in order to recover by the Iranians...We are bleeding strategically in terms of how the war is portrayed in Israel, in the United States, worldwide."

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What are the U.S. and Israel getting right and wrong about the war with Iran?

@HaymanTamir, executive director of @INSSIsrael, says military achievements have been "amazing," but leaders were overconfident about toppling the regime.

"Hope is not a strategic plan."

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On a 1972 #FiringLine, Shimon Peres made the case for American support for Israel.

This week, @HaymanTamir, executive director of @INSSIsrael, sounds a warning about growing skepticism of Israel in the U.S. and breaks down what the war in Iran has--and has not--accomplished.

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"We have to think more about what the rule of law means," says Justice Anthony Kennedy.

“If we don't think about what the rest of the world thinks about what we're doing, about what our future thinks about what we're doing, about what our history will teach us about what we're doing, we put democracy in danger.”

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Israel's air force targeted sites belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon, including in the country's eastern Bekaa Valley, late on Monday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to intensify attacks on the Lebanese militant group. https://t.co/6uwl4dIagx

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Iranian and U.S. officials agree progress to end the war has been made, but how much remains uncertain. https://t.co/Hgsc9mauFQ