Analysis
Sunday, February 12th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Yoni Ben Menachem Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Feb. 9, 2023 “The only formula that Israel has agreed to is “calm for calm.” President Biden asked Egyptian President al-Sisi to renew Egyptian involvement to prevent an escalation in the security situation between Israel and the Palestinians and another round of fighting on the Gaza border. U.S. Secretary […]
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Khalill Al-Anani Arab Center, Jan. 27, 2023 “China has emerged as Egypt’s fourth largest creditor, with outstanding debts amounting to almost $8 billion, representing approximately 5 percent of Egypt’s total external debt of $155.7 billion.” On December 8, 2022, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met with his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of […]
Vivian Yee NY Times, Jan. 23, 2023 “This I.M.F. deal is preventing them from failing, but they’re imposing a lot of conditions on that in a way they hadn’t in the past.” Around the time Egypt’s currency hit an all-time low, an article this month on the country’s sharp economic downturn quietly slipped off […]
Sunday, February 12th 2023 / Sunday, February 12th 2023
Danny Zaken Globes, Feb. 8, 2023 “… within three years, the scale of exports to Europe would increase many times over and with it the tax royalties and levies for the state. We are talking about many billions that may be lost without direction from above, removing obstacles, high-level regional cooperation between leaders, and accelerated […]
Friday, February 10th 2023
Peter Berkowitz Real Clear Politics, Feb. 5, 2023 “So it is not by verbal chance that Trudeau used the word “reset” in his video conference speech.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lit up some of the highly flammable sections of social media the other day after excerpts from a two-month-old virtual speech he gave […]
Friday, February 10th 2023 / Friday, February 10th 2023
Haviv Rettig Gur Times of Israel, Feb. 7, 2023 “the failed filibuster wasn’t the exception that Gantz seemed to suggest. It’s the norm.” “Mistakes happen. We’re all people,” National Unity party chief Benny Gantz tweeted on January 23. It was an apology of sorts. Gantz’s party had just failed to show up to its own filibuster, allowing […]
Gadi Taub Tablet, Jan. 25, 2023 “The Netanyahu trial and bottom-up demands for judicial reform have melded together into a hugely consequential showdown between patricians and plebs.” The Israeli election in November was, in large part, a referendum on the Netanyahu trial. The jury came back with a clear verdict: not guilty. Israelis, or […]
Mordechai Nisan Newsmax, Feb. 6, 2023 “After dragging important Israelis through the public mire and their human rights quashed, nobody was accountable for this grave injustice.” Like most things about Jews, their politics in Israel are also unusual, different, and idiosyncratic. While much of the modern appurtenances of democracy apply to the political conduct of […]
Thursday, February 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Byron York Washington Examiner, Feb. 6, 2023 “I don’t know of any balloon flights by any power over the United States during my tenure, and I’d never heard of any of that occurring before I joined in 2018. I haven’t heard of anything that occurred after I left, either. I can say with 100% certainty, […]
Andrew C. McCarthy National Review, Feb. 6, 2023 “Did the balloon have the capacity to transmit data it was collecting to the regime in Beijing in real time?” What we are learning about the U.S. response to China’s balloon surveillance is not encouraging. The Biden administration has struggled to explain why the balloon, which was finally […]
C. Zachary Hofer and Carter Palmer Defense & Security Monitor, Feb. 6, 2023 “The major benefit of a stratospheric surveillance balloon is as a signals intelligence platform.” From the end of January and into February, an uncommon object captured the attention of observers around the globe, but probably none more so than the Canadian […]
Thursday, February 9th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Bill Gertz Washington Times, Feb. 2, 2023 “Regarding Gen. Minihan’s comments about Xi and his ‘war council’ being likely to conduct an invasion by 2025 is not warmongering, but aligns with similar predictions of a PRC invasion that have been made by several senior U.S. military officers.” The four-star Air Force general who predicted a […]
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