Analysis
Thursday, August 10th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
GIS, July 17, 2023 “Hezbollah pays its fighters twice as much as the LAF; it is the incubator of a Shia counter-society, developing its own administration, banks, shops, medical units and military forces.” Lebanon has been looking for a successor to President Michel Aoun since his term expired in 2022. No fewer than 12 parliamentary sessions have been […]
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Yaakov Lappin JNS, Aug. 2, 2023 “It is important to view the actions of Hezbollah in a wider, regional context, according to Shay. “Iran is at the core of [Hezbollah’s] regional activities, and these activities also involve Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza. Israel is not interested in a clash that turns regional. This […]
Tony Badran Tablet, Aug. 1, 2023 “As it turned out, the maritime deal did not, in fact, enhance Israel’s security, as U.S. negotiator Amos Hochstein and his echo chamber validators in the U.S. and Israeli press all claimed it would. In reality Israel’s security and deterrence has badly deteriorated on multiple fronts since the Biden administration came […]
Lazar Berman Times of Israel, Aug. 7, 2023 “They think that what is happening gives an indication of a kind of weakness inside Israel, and they are wrong. These demonstrations express the strength and cohesion of the Israeli state. They should know that the Jewish people have always been distinguished by their internal debates, but in the […]
Tuesday, August 8th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
Jon Cohen Science, July 11, 2023 “We’re examining whether government officials, regardless of who they are, unfairly, perhaps biasedly, tipped the scales toward a preferred origin theory.” Two scientists who are co-authors of a 3-year-old article on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic faced down Republican lawmakers today in what might be the most […]
David Zweig The Free Press, Aug. 7, 2023 “Fauci and Collins were so closely involved with the paper that in internal communications among the paper’s five authors they referred to the pair as the “Bethesda Boys” (a reference to NIH headquarters, in Bethesda, Maryland).” On April 17, 2020, with much of the country still in some […]
Dr. Robert Malone The Daily Sceptic, Aug. 4, 2023 “I think Tony Fauci was trying to protect his institution and his own reputation from the possibility that his agency was funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers who, beyond the scope of the grants received from the National Institutes of Health, may have been working […]
Ian Birrell The UnHerd, July 28, 2023 “It is hard to overstate the influence of this single article, accessed almost six million times and cited by 5,942 other specialist papers.” “What happened to Oppenheimer damaged our ability as a society to debate honestly about scientific theory,” wrote Kai Bird, author of the biography on […]
Monday, August 7th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
Laura Rozen Diplomatic by Laura Rozen, July 28, 2023 “I have the sense that there’s unrealistic expectations on both sides. And the reason for that is that this process right now, and where we are in the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and the Saudis, is driven by narrow political interests and agendas and timelines […]
David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Aug. 3, 2023 “For Saudi Arabia this means it “must” pull away from oil market coordination with the Russians, and “must” distance itself in all diplomatic and trade matters from the Chinese. For Israel, this means it “must” permanently abandon plans to annex the West Bank, “must” permanently abandon judicial […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, June 29, 2023 “Normalization could happen, however, the election of a right-wing government is a setback. Normalization could happen, but first there must be comprehensive peace, and the right-wing government makes that harder.” Integration of the Middle East as a group of countries in a region is important, including […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Aug. 2, 2023 “The main benefit of such a deal in Friedman’s eyes is that it would put Netanyahu in a tight spot.” According to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, President Joe Biden is trying to do Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a big favor. That would involve the administration finally […]
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