{"id":325902,"date":"2026-04-10T07:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325902"},"modified":"2026-04-12T07:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:14:36","slug":"israel-faces-unsustainable-strategic-crisis-following-40-day-war-against-iran-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325902","title":{"rendered":"Israel faces &#8216;unsustainable&#8217; strategic crisis following 40-day war against Iran: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 April 9, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>The Israeli regime is facing its worst strategic crisis\u00a0following the 40-day war against Iran amid\u00a0unsustainable economic burdens, eroding international support, and a deepening military manpower crisis, according to an American-Israeli analyst.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s \u201csecurity reality\u201d has deteriorated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel now faces a worse security reality than before the war,&#8221; Ben-Ephraim wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the US-Israel ceasefire deal could restrict Israel&#8217;s future ability to act against Tehran, while Iran has demonstrated its capability to strike deep inside the occupied territories with its ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most alarmingly, Ben-Ephraim warned that US -Israeli relations are eroding too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the regime\u2019s 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&#8217;s end just to cover existing commitments.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Footage shows destruction from recent Israeli airstrikes that targeted a residential building in Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KklJoNYmq6\">pic.twitter.com\/KklJoNYmq6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Press TV \uf53b (@PressTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressTV\/status\/2042103743089668409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For context, that additional $10.9 billion ask alone is roughly equivalent to the entire annual defense budget of a mid-sized European nation,&#8221; Ben-Ephraim noted.<\/p>\n<p>Each confrontation with Iran carries a price tag of $16 to $19 billion, he stated, and if such rounds become recurring, Israel \u201cwould be spending the equivalent of a small war every year or two, not as an emergency but as a structural cost of existence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israeli machinations have put them in serious danger with Iran and caused severe damage to their tourism and energy prospects,&#8221; Ben-Ephraim said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will be looking to lessen dependence on the US and possibly move away from normalization with Israel, leaving Israel isolated in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;The Zionist entity is now on its last stand&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TadhgHickey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TadhgHickey<\/a> says that we are witnessing the closing chapter of a bloody, shameful period of history led by the Zionist entity and its supporters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R9Gv7N1qEC\">pic.twitter.com\/R9Gv7N1qEC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Press TV \uf53b (@PressTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressTV\/status\/2042196323420811609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Patrolling these vast, hostile areas simultaneously will place an unsustainable long-term strain on IDF (Israeli military) personnel and the domestic economy,&#8221; Ben-Ephraim said.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli regime leadership recently warned the situation could cause the military to &#8220;collapse in on itself,&#8221; Ben-Ephraim said.<\/p>\n<p>While standard deployment for combat reservists has shifted from ad-hoc emergency calls to a structured 60 days per year in 2026 \u2014 a one-third reduction from peak burdens in 2025 \u2014 constant deployments have caused turnout rates in most reserve battalions to drop to just 60 to 70 percent.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2026\/04\/09\/766544\/israel-faces-unsustainable-strategic-crisis-following-war-iran-analyst\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. based analyst Ben-Ephraim warns that Israel now faces a severe, unsustainable strategic crisis characterized by a permanent war economy, mounting financial strain, and increasing international isolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":324241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325923,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325902\/revisions\/325923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}