<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Mitzpe Institute]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mitzpe Institute]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpe.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:09:01 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.mitzpeh.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Field Dossier: The Tollgate State]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Palestinian state no one means to build has become the most powerful polity in the region [because a gate is most effective when it stays shut].]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/field-dossier-the-tollgate-state</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d859afaba6cee57d91ffe</guid><category><![CDATA[Mitzpe Dossiers]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:13:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thursday, June 25]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump offers the Lebanon job to Damascus and a New York primary makes "genocide enabler" the winning charge.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/thursday-june-25</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d857cfaba6cee57d91fa6</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:59:52 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watchwords: Tuesday, June 23]]></title><description><![CDATA[The deal is signed, and the one army it binds is the one that wasn't in the room when it was written.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/watchwords-tuesday-june-23</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d8530c46da0aa0d471f94</guid><category><![CDATA[Watchwords]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:06:06 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tuesday, June 23]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tehran collects the oil, the strait, and a Lebanon seat before an inspector reaches a centrifuge, and the IDF's orders in the north shrink to a chief-of-staff signature.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/tuesday-june-23</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d857b40b34fdeb1f01e93</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:24:42 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monday, June 22]]></title><description><![CDATA[The IDF holds every dominant point in southern Lebanon and is cleared to fire on none of them.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/monday-june-22</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d8579c84b74606302777b</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:05:30 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday, June 21]]></title><description><![CDATA[The deal Israel never wrote is now enforced against it on every front — Hormuz reclosed, the talks turned on Lebanon, the bloc past 61, and two more soldiers buried under the fifth ceasefire.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/sunday-june-21</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d8578c84b746063027778</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:53:03 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Field Dossier: The Berbera Model]]></title><description><![CDATA[Israel traded the photographed peace for quiet, transactional presence — the quiet is why it lasts, and why it isn't peace.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/field-dossier-the-berbera-model</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d8599faba6cee57d91ffa</guid><category><![CDATA[Mitzpe Dossiers]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:13:24 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thursday, June 18]]></title><description><![CDATA[The memorandum takes force two days early, Hormuz reopens on the page and stays mined under it, and a reservist falls on the Litani enforcing the war the paper says is over.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/thursday-june-18</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d85774335688184497667</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:45:34 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wednesday, June 17]]></title><description><![CDATA[Washington signs Iran's strait open and will not let Jerusalem read the page, while the draft fight cracks the coalition and the IDF keeps enforcing the clauses no one signed.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/wednesday-june-17</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d8575c84b74606302776f</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:43:27 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watchwords: Tuesday, June 16]]></title><description><![CDATA[A memorandum that ends nothing is being sold as peace, and the side still doing the disarming is already being cast as the one breaking it.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/watchwords-tuesday-june-16</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d852f43356881844975b6</guid><category><![CDATA[Watchwords]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:27:28 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tuesday, June 16]]></title><description><![CDATA[The IDF keeps working its missions, the coalition trades the draft law for an arrest-freeze, and Europe boards up the booths.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/tuesday-june-16</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d8574c84b746063027769</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:11:08 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monday, June 15]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump dates the Iran signing to Friday and folds in a Lebanon clause, and the PM who staked everything on his American friend now has to distance himself.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/monday-june-15</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d8573c46da0aa0d472052</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:43:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday, June 14]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump sells Iran an open strait for a stockpile "diluted at an appropriate time," and the IDF is advancing on Nabatieh.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/sunday-june-14</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d85714335688184497657</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:46:15 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Field Dossier: Furious, and Half Right]]></title><description><![CDATA[Field Dossier: Furious, and Half Right]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/field-dossier-furious-and-half-right</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d859840b34fdeb1f01ee4</guid><category><![CDATA[Mitzpe Dossiers]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:13:56 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thursday, June 11]]></title><description><![CDATA[American jets work Iran's air defenses a second night and spare the energy core, Riyadh routes its freight through Ankara, and the coalition remains busy.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/thursday-june-11</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d856fc46da0aa0d472045</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:40 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wednesday, June 10]]></title><description><![CDATA[American jets are firing into Iran, and the question of whether Israel was dragging Washington into a war just answered itself.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/wednesday-june-10</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d856e40b34fdeb1f01e6c</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:04:12 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watchwords: Tuesday, June 9]]></title><description><![CDATA[Israel is cast this week as both too reckless for Washington to control and too cowed to act on its own — when the field is plainly Israel's, and the fight is over who decides when it acts.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/watchwords-tuesday-june-9</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d852e40b34fdeb1f01dc3</guid><category><![CDATA[Watchwords]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:39:26 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tuesday, June 9]]></title><description><![CDATA[Israel and Iran stop firing on Trump's word, the prime minister ends a loaded strike on a phone call, and the question is who decides.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/tuesday-june-9</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d856d40b34fdeb1f01e66</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:08:53 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monday, June 8]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iran fires its first direct barrage in two months, Israel strikes back into Tehran's air defenses, and Trump tells the prime minister he does not call the shots.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/monday-june-8</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d856bc84b746063027750</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:17:03 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday, June 7]]></title><description><![CDATA[Qassem rejects the deal from the pulpit and the north buries three more, Iran maps Trump's floor with live fire, and a gunman works the Sharon.]]></description><link>https://www.mitzpeh.org/post/sunday-june-7</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3d856ac46da0aa0d472039</guid><category><![CDATA[Israel Brief]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:26:51 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>אוריאל זהבי</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>