For decades, a handful of Israeli analysts — NEWSRAEL among them — have argued that our Arab enemies are nothing more than “paper tigers.”
While this view was long dismissed as a minority opinion, the two-year war has proven it beyond doubt.
The same way these enemies invent outrageous lies about Israel, they also lie to themselves. Their propaganda machine has become so overgrown and self-sustaining that they have broken the first rule of propaganda: never believe your own lies.
Iran and its proxies — Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis — now boast that Israel has not yet seen their “real power,” claiming they are still holding back devastating weapons in their arsenal. These words may comfort Israel-haters abroad, but in Israel, the truth is clear: it’s nothing but bluster.