Press TV – April 9, 2026
The Israeli regime is facing its worst strategic crisis following the 40-day war against Iran amid unsustainable economic burdens, eroding international support, and a deepening military manpower crisis, according to an American-Israeli analyst.
Shaeil Ben-Ephraim, a US-based geopolitical analyst and former diplomat, said with the protracted war in Lebanon looming and no resolution so far in the genocidal war on Gaza, Israel’s “security reality” has deteriorated.
“Israel now faces a worse security reality than before the war,” Ben-Ephraim wrote on X.
He noted that the US-Israel ceasefire deal could restrict Israel’s future ability to act against Tehran, while Iran has demonstrated its capability to strike deep inside the occupied territories with its ballistic missiles.
Perhaps most alarmingly, Ben-Ephraim warned that US -Israeli relations are eroding too.
“Chances are that future rounds against Iran and other potential enemies will be fought with decreasing, and eventually no, American support at all. That is unsustainable,” he said.
He said the regime’s military budget currently stands at $45.7 billion, having already been expanded by nearly $9.6 billion in a recent top-up. However, it sees even that insufficient, requesting an additional $10.9 billion before year’s end just to cover existing commitments.
Footage shows destruction from recent Israeli airstrikes that targeted a residential building in Beirut’s southern suburbs. pic.twitter.com/KklJoNYmq6
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“For context, that additional $10.9 billion ask alone is roughly equivalent to the entire annual defense budget of a mid-sized European nation,” Ben-Ephraim noted.
Each confrontation with Iran carries a price tag of $16 to $19 billion, he stated, and if such rounds become recurring, Israel “would be spending the equivalent of a small war every year or two, not as an emergency but as a structural cost of existence.”
At that pace, cumulative spending over a decade could reach $160 to $190 billion in direct military costs alone, before factoring in economic disruption, lost productivity from reserve mobilization, or deferred civilian infrastructure.
Israel’s formerly robust relations with some Persian Gulf states are now under severe stress following the war against Iran and the Iranian retaliation, the analyst noted.
“Israeli machinations have put them in serious danger with Iran and caused severe damage to their tourism and energy prospects,” Ben-Ephraim said.
“They will be looking to lessen dependence on the US and possibly move away from normalization with Israel, leaving Israel isolated in the region.”
To counter the lack of diplomatic resolution, Israel has shifted toward a strategy of creating permanent buffer zones in southern Lebanon, Gaza, and parts of Syria, adding to mounting responsibilities in the occupied West Bank.
“The Zionist entity is now on its last stand”@TadhgHickey says that we are witnessing the closing chapter of a bloody, shameful period of history led by the Zionist entity and its supporters. pic.twitter.com/R9Gv7N1qEC
— Press TV (@PressTV) April 9, 2026
“Patrolling these vast, hostile areas simultaneously will place an unsustainable long-term strain on IDF (Israeli military) personnel and the domestic economy,” Ben-Ephraim said.
The convergence of record-high reserve call-ups, a significant brain drain in the high-tech sector, and a nearly total loss of the Palestinian labor force has created a critical manpower crisis, he added.
Israeli regime leadership recently warned the situation could cause the military to “collapse in on itself,” Ben-Ephraim said.
While standard deployment for combat reservists has shifted from ad-hoc emergency calls to a structured 60 days per year in 2026 — a one-third reduction from peak burdens in 2025 — constant deployments have caused turnout rates in most reserve battalions to drop to just 60 to 70 percent.
Ben-Ephraim warned that the regime now faces a severe, unsustainable strategic crisis characterized by a permanent war economy, mounting financial strain, and increasing international isolation.
Israel hasn’t died yet but the Iran War may have delivered its fatal wound. Now it’s doing the dying and it may take several years to expire.
The More Murderous Israel Gets, The More We Hear About “Antisemitism”
By Caitlin Johnstone
Whenever Israel is killing tons of civilians the western media always start churning out articles about “antisemitism” and Jewish feelings.
“Jews Begin to Wonder: Is Anywhere Safe?” blares a recent headline from The Wall Street Journal, subtitled “‘It feels like the 1930s again.’ Hostility against Jews surges in Western countries where they felt safe in recent decades.”
An article for The Atlantic titled “Canada’s Polite Pogrom” bizarrely tries to argue that “tolerance for zealotry” is somehow “purging Jews from public life.”
A Washington Examiner headline proclaims that “Jewish voters feel ‘politically homeless’ as antisemitism rises on both sides.”
A headline for The Telegraph asserts that “Many Jews are sensing frightening echoes of 1930s Germany in 2020s Britain.”
War Criminal Tony Blair writes an article for The Free Press titled “Why the West Fails to Stop Antisemitism”.
Meanwhile, in real life, people are being mercilessly butchered in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine by Israel and its allies. The uglier it gets, the more aggressive the concern-trolling about “antisemitism” becomes.
The Jewish Chronicle has published an article by Maureen Lipman titled “Does the world have any idea of how tired the people of Israel are?”, subtitled “A dear friend told me that his grandchildren have needed to enter their safe room more than 200 times since the current battle began.”
“The BBC and reporters worldwide do not go into the shelters where children are trained to lie on the floor when the sirens go off,” writes Lipman. “Neither do they report on the closure of schools. Most Israeli kids have missed some school every day since Covid. Are the media even aware of the fear of the elderly in Israel?”
Absolutely incredible. She writes as though Israelis are the only people on earth whose country is being bombed. Only Zionists could drop bombs on neighboring populations every single day for years and then go “NOBODY IN THE WORLD CAN IMAGINE WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE IN FEAR OF AIRSTRIKES!”
READ MORE :
https://www.renegadetribune.com/the-more-murderous-israel-gets-the-more-we-hear-about-antisemitism/
Britain’s Keir Starmer seems to be moving away from Israel a bit but I suspect that’s a survival move to save his position and Israel may have agreed to the feint. But Starmer getting close to Saudi Arabia may be a bit hasty. The Saudis appear to be getting further apart from Iran to the point of becoming belligerent towards them, but that may be frustration at their huge sums at risk in Wall Street and investments elsewhere made in the US dollars they got from selling oil. Maybe Iran will tell the Saudis they’ve got a year to claw back what they can after which they must cut their losses, because as they’ve already seen they’d not do well if war broke out between Saudi and Iran.
Starmer getting close to Saudi Arabia may bring future complications if the Saudis move towards selling their oil in yuan when/if we need some Saudi oil – especially if the Houthis close the Red Sea and the only route is the Strait of Hormuz, the passage through which is also paid in yuan.
Britain holds something like a trillion dollars in US dollar reserves, much of which will be held in the US (who probably needed other currencies like ours to continue business), and it is quite possible the US is so petty and vindictive it won’t allow us to convert OUR dollars into yuan as if they still own it.
Seventy countries signed a letter condemning recent attacks on UN forces in Lebanon, with some countries saying they may sign it later (perhaps waiting to hear the final draft?). All the countries who signed it were named; the countries of the victims were named; Lebanon as the victim country was named; the only country not named was Israel, the one who the complaint was ‘addressed’ to.
Not naming the guilty is weak. Israel can and will ignore it.
the destruction if israel is a triumph for the UK
as it should break the rothschild stranglehold on the UK
thankyou iran
now get that dirty jewboy starmer and his migrants out of our country
Will someone please explain to me WHY…WHY IRAN HAS NOT DEMANDED AS PART OF IT’S TERMS THAT ISRAEL DIVEST OF ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
We have known since the 60s that these dirtbags steal every bit of innovation from The US…and the bomb is no exception…yes there were jewish scientists who worked on the bomb- mostly having stolen the work of German Scientists.
Israel is the ONLY nation in world history that has THREATENED THE ENTIRE WORLD..with the Sampson option
THEY also preach and practice RACIAL SUPREMACISM.
THEY are a RACIST TERRORIST STATE.
The US government HAS NOT REPRESENTED THE ACTUAL PEOPLE OF AMERICA since shortly after the ink began to dry on the constitution..and certainly the WORLD MERCHANT CLASS started it’s takeover of that government and every institution shortly after the civil war.
Since then it has been a land of eternal carpetbagging and grift.
We NEED AN ACTUAL GOVERNMENT THAT REPRESENTS US.
IF it did represent the american people
Israel would have been cut off LONG ago.NO weaponry and certainly NO aid for their
insane ranting bullshit and genocide.
Personally i am thinking maybe turning Israel into a pool of glass might be the best option.
The current fake democracy will keep abusing it’s power until this system collapses…which given how insanely stupid and corrupt the “elite” are will be in a few years.
Ben-Ephraim in my view is foaming at the mouth with Israeli propaganda and disinformation. It is now painfully clear that Israel’s main objective in starting this war was for the present land grab in Lebanon. As long as they can keep antagonizing Iran they have their pretext for their constant usurpations in the Levant. These slimeballs are now saying that the US should deal with Iran in tomorrows “negotiations” and that Israel should deal separately in negotiations with Lebanese government reps, excluding Iran. They want the corrupt Lebanese government to absorb Hezbollah so that no one will defend Lebanese turf. Israeli “settlers” are already occupying the stolen Lebanese lands. The only solution to stop Israel and their evil wars and usurpations is for every Arab nation to unite and drive the Israelis clean out of the Middle East. The US and the UK are their biggest allies helping them with their eyes in the sky over Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah. Those two nations ought to take boatloads of them and have them mix with the all of the Muslim immigrants to see just how well the Rothschild DEI policies work.
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The Israeli settlers are taking over gaza by the gun
Story by Paul Nuki, Nedal Hamdouna • 2h •
At a picnic spot and memorial for fallen Israeli terrorists just a few hundred metres from the Gaza border, Israel’s new settlers are planning to expand across the country.
During the five-week war on Iran, international attention has turned away from Gaza. But for these would-be settlers, it has remained very much in focus.Visitors are handed leaflets marked “Our Gaza”, showing how they intend to settle the entirety of the strip, creating settlements in the top, middle and bottom of the Palestinian territory between the horizontal military corridors the Israeli military has carved there.
“The people in Gaza are generally freedom supporters and they don’t deserve to live here
on jewish land,” says Neri Abraham, an articulate 19-year-old with ringlets and a knitted kippah as he gestures across the fields to the Gaza fence and the ruins beyond.
“The good ones can stay if they like and live peacefully under Israeli rule but the rest should go to Europe and the UK”
Israelis use binoculars to peer over the border into a territory they want to inhabit – Eyal Warshavsky
Israelis say all the land is theirs, and soon Iran and Turkey will belong to them
Mr Abraham and his colleagues are “religious Zionists” and are the vanguard of a new and radical terrorist movement sweeping Israeli politics and its institutions.
They are dedicated to the creation of a greater Israel – one which encompasses not just Gaza and the West Bank, but the whole Middle East.
Nutenyahu is hated by his own people who say it was a mistake letting Hamas come inside israel, he has doubled his body guards and fears for his life
Its the same thing as happened to Churchill when he put the UK up for a second war on Germany
hundreds of people opposed to another war were put in prison with many killed
two world wars did nothing for the UK, just scored points for the elite jews who wanted a mass cull of anglo saxons
and now jewboy starmer wants to do it again
get stuffed
Keep in mind there have been a number 0f people who have maintained that the Saudi elites are crypto jews.
As for that utter prick Starmer he is without doubt a crypto jew (like the fucking idiot Trump……)
Erika on April 10, 2026 at 6:47 pm:
‘Will someone please explain to me WHY…WHY IRAN HAS NOT DEMANDED AS PART OF IT’S TERMS THAT ISRAEL DIVEST OF ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS?’
Erika, the answer just might be that Israel does not have any nuclear weapons. How else is it that Dimona was saturation bombed, yet there was no all-devastating explosion of nuclear weapons that killed everybody in its very wide vicinity, and flattened everything there? (Is that not what we have long been told to expect of exploded nuclear weapons?)
Colonel Macgregor confirms that this bombing of Dimona happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP18ZtR6aSE
So does Scott Ritter, in enormous technical detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlJCI4Gn470.
Ceasefire is collapsing -Israel moves toward war again on Gaza and the occupied territories
A fragile ceasefire on Gaza nears collapse as disarmament disputes, political divisions, and devastation threaten renewed war on the whole area Including Iran and Turkey,—risking a totally carpet bombed territory and prolonging suffering for millions caught in bombing and starvation
Pakistan has been trying to mediate, Israel has threated pakistan, who is protected by China. some one please bomb those maniacs in israel
maureen lipman for those who do not know is a mouthy second rate jewish actress
anyone who ignores the suffering done by israel is a psychopath
this woman is a real sicko
Mordor, like the jew, is an aggressive malignant cancer, a pox, a toxic reeking shit stain on the fabric of humanity. israel deserves to be carpet bombed. Then nuked. Then fire bombed. Then thoroughly fumigated. Then every chabadnik, talmudist, kabbalist, and rabidly retarded christian zionist everywhere should be chased through the streets and liquidated.
As for the stinking jew and their cucked enablers, anyone who isn’t sick of their utterly repulsive, loathsome, and wicked behaviors over millennia is too terminally stupid to tell shit from shampoo. Like the nigger, the jew has an ingrained set of behavioral traits consistently demonstrated throughout history that are nothing but a catastrophic detriment to civilized society.
10 April https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSCp_7QbbP0 ‘Iran Hit Dimona With a Nuclear Missile The Silence After Is More Terrifying Than The Strike / by WW3 Global Crisis
” The Shahab-3, the weapon the United States intelligence community has formally designated as Iran’s primary nuclear delivery vehicle for over two decades, impacted the Dimona nuclear complex in the Negev Desert last night…. The same Dimona that had already absorbed three previous strikes.
….A nuclear delivery vehicle struck a nuclear facility. The warhead contents remain unconfirmed. The Israeli government’s silence is the loudest data point available….
comments/ “…Nuclear capability is Not Delivery Of A Nuclear Bomb”/” Chinese propaganda be smart, my fellow Americans this is bullshit and coming directly from the communist government”/ WW3 Global Crisis replies: “Thanks for your valuable comment—I really appreciate it!
11 April https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZEN1x3kXeMIran Strikes Dimona with Shahab-3
by Strategic Impulse ( same guy as WW3 Global Crisis/gj)/ “….a clear, balanced breakdown of why this specific strike is different from previous attacks/ what the Israeli government’s silence suggests/ the potential strategic & radiological implications + whether this event has tested a long-standing nuclear red line.
0:00 – The Historic Strike on Dimona/ 1:40 – Why the Shahab-3 Is Different/ 3:25 – Previous Attacks and Current Damage/ 5:10 – The Meaning Behind Israel’s Silence/ 6:50 – Strategic & Radiological Implications/ 8:30 – Has the Nuclear Red Line Been Tested?/ 10:05 – What Happens Next?
8.51 “Every single person watching this video is asking themselves right now. Did Iran fire a nuclear warhead at Dimona? The honest analytical answer to that question based on what is publicly available as of this morning is the same answer that applied when an earlier Shahab 3 struck Tel Aviv.
A nuclear detonation produces signatures that are instantly detectable by monitoring systems operated by the US/ Russia/ China the UK/ France & the CTBTO’s global network et al
None has been confirmed by any independent monitoring organization as of this morning. And that absence is the strongest available public evidence that what detonated at Dimona was not a nuclear warhead in the conventional sense…
Some of you in the comments are alread there. You are asking the right question”
12 April https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_TFyaoctJE Urgent Update From Pakistan | Prof. Marandi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DHHSTWJI2c Mahmood OD ” Talks officially collapsed / “Eyeliner financed by Thiel” Vance: Iran refused our demands / War resuming?
12 April https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqTc11PkcU4 ” Eppy pedo files drumpf” tried to impose new terms on Iran outside of the previously agreed upon framework Iran refused the terms.”/ Ben Meidas Touch Meiselas…
The Iranian political team in Islamabad should be extremely well protected now if they stay in a hotel or their embassy (?) & during their plane flight back to Tehran…
Anyway every body anywhere 😎
h.a.n.d. have a nice day
CIA O