Elliot Kaufman
@ElliotKaufman6 · Jewish & Israel-focused media — US/UK
Elliot Kaufman is a Wall Street Journal editorial-board member and author.
New excerpt from IN THE WAR ROOM is now out in @realDailyWire. Read the inside story from the Mossad and IDF on the day the proxy war with Iran gave way to something even fiercer. Thank you @BrentScher, @bdomenech, @JennaLynn88 and @benshapiro. https://t.co/NGYTcaLaNt
"Other books have been published telling the story of the tragedy of Oct. 7 and Israel’s response. But In the War Room is arguably the first work to offer a real behind the scenes account of decision making at the highest levels of government." https://t.co/u0oEAprE2q
"My friend, the journalist Elliot Kaufman, has published an excellent book called IN THE WAR ROOM...He has allowed me to publish one of its most interesting sections." -@AmitSegal Read how Trump, Vance and Kurilla came to join Israel in the 12-Day War. https://t.co/LKJsog0Os4
Ed Miliband and the British Labour Party are pressuring Israel not into "land for peace," but land for war. WSJ editorial: https://t.co/fO9Sd3ATcm
"What Palestinians keep saying, but the likes of Mr. Miliband refuse to hear, is that they won’t live in peace alongside a Jewish state even in Tel Aviv, which they consider as much a settlement as any hilltop outpost." WSJ editorial: https://t.co/fO9Sd3ATcm
Today is publication day! In the War Room: The Inside Story of Israel's Fight Against Hamas and the Iranian Axis is out now. There is else nothing like this available, with inside material from all of Israel's top leaders. Order the book here: https://t.co/u0oEApr6cS
Superb review of IN THE WAR ROOM by @SeanDurns: "arguably the first work to offer a real behind-the-scenes account of decision making at the highest levels of Israel's government." Read Sean here and order the book using the link in the next tweet. https://t.co/q16NeRMScd
Gen. David Petraeus: “The detailed portrayals of deliberations within Israel’s inner sanctum are deeply illuminating…A pathbreaking work by two of the world’s finest journalists.” Order IN THE WAR ROOM here: https://t.co/3JIj1oOuip https://t.co/3mfCr4oXWi
"It didn’t bode well for Gallant’s aggressive plan, he knew, if Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot were already weighing in on the critical decisions of war and peace." Big WSJ excerpt from my book, IN THE WAR ROOM, with @jeremybob1. Book comes out Tuesday! https://t.co/OcBk9Dk19m
IN THE WAR ROOM comes out on Tuesday. H.R. McMaster calls it “the book to read to understand the beginning of a new era in the histories of Israel and the Middle East.” Order it here: https://t.co/aUlSv05nny https://t.co/j7lRa5im8D
NEW: The Inside Story of Israel’s War Room After Oct. 7 Exclusive excerpt from my book, written with the Jerusalem Post's @jeremybob1, for the weekend WSJ. Full of inside material from Israel's political, military and intelligence leaders: https://t.co/Vl5yXMGfsI
"For them, Palestinian lives only seem to matter when Jewish Israelis are involved. Tell the truth - is that not the case? Am I wrong?"
JPost: "Bob and Kaufman had unprecedented access to the actors. The writing is based on two years of private interviews and briefings with the Israeli triumvirate and the top military and intelligence officials, and trips to combat zones on four fronts." https://t.co/b0sjuE0XyW
After the Jerusalem Post’s review, our book passed Rashid Khalidi’s on Amazon’s Israel-Palestine list. Unfortunately, his was published six years ago 😂, but it’s a start!
"Settlers are not 'civilians'... Responsibility for every single death falls solely on the zionist entity... Resistance comes in all forms—armed struggle, general strikes, and popular demonstrations. All of it is legitimate, and all of it is necessary." 3/4
On Oct. 8, 2023, SJP wrote: "The resistance in Gaza launched a surprise operation... Today, we witness a historic win for the Palestinian resistance... Glory to our resistance, to our martyrs... unwavering support of the Palestinian resistance... Normalize the resistance" 2/4
I'm still in awe of how brazenly the national Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) supported the Oct. 7 massacre in its Oct. 8 toolkit sent to campus chapters. SJP even included a sample graphic for a flyer including a Hamas paraglider. 1/4 https://t.co/CVdm4QO1UM
From the review: "Doves became hawks and hawks became doves. . . One can almost feel the perspiration under their military-chic, black button-down shirts as they deliberated in tense sessions in the 'Kirya,' where day and night don’t exist." https://t.co/b0sjuE0XyW
"A fly on the wall in Israel's war room." Wonderful @Jerusalem_Post review of my new book, IN THE WAR ROOM, with @jeremybob1. "A must-read . . . Bob and Kaufman had unprecedented access to the actors." https://t.co/yI8xIua1ZB
The Fight to Get the U.N. Out of Lebanon Unifil peacekeepers were worse than useless. But France isn’t giving up. WSJ editorial: https://t.co/CzUpLeXVke
The leading candidate for UN Secretary-General praised Fidel Castro and rages ignorantly, and tellingly, at Israel. How ignorant? She thinks Israel "violently rejected" the two-state solution in 1948. She used that to play down Oct 7. My WSJ op-ed: https://t.co/vdguWVLOvy
“Slovenia is a sovereign state and an equal member of the EU, and without our consent (or the consent of any other member state), there is no ‘European foreign policy position’ [on Israel] that we would be obliged to support. We are co-decision-makers and not servants.”
"What's fascinating is that Lebanon had a chance, all it had to do is show it can control one village...basically just one place. And the army apparently couldn't do that. Western funding for the Lebanese army for years...and it can't control one little area."
The Europeans issue panicked statements, but long-proposed building in the Jerusalem suburbs isn’t the death of peace. They don’t treat building in Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus this way. Only Israel. WSJ editorial: https://t.co/HWB2AyMP7B
If you boycott Israel, at a minimum that should mean forfeiting any involvement in its affairs or "peace process." Can't have it both ways.
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