Analysis
Friday, February 24th 2023
Douglas Murray The Free Press, Feb. 19, 2023 “They can rob you, arrest you, disappear you, perhaps even kill you. Perhaps they can kill almost everyone, or at least make a very good try. But they cannot take a memory once it is embedded like this.” Why commit anything—and poetry, of all things—to memory? […]
Meir Y. Soloveichik Commentary Magazine, March 2023 “Studying both pages, I realized that I was seeing a simple and sublime summation of one of the great works of Jewish thought: Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik’s The Lonely Man of Faith.” Rabbi Hanina ben Teradyon was executed by the Romans following the fall of the Bar Kokhba revolt […]
Friday, February 24th 2023 / Friday, February 24th 2023
David Meir Soloveitchik Mosaic Magazine, Dec. 20, 2018 “… for Rembrandt as for other 17th-century Dutch painters, the aim was to capture not the majesty of the gods but the nature of living, breathing humanity in all of its simultaneous magnificence and lowliness.” Perhaps the most famous sculpture in the world is Michelangelo’s heroic […]
Stuart Schoffman Jewish Review of Books, Feb. 12, 2019 “There the learned consensus stands: Lincoln spoke to Wise metaphorically, and the Jewish roots are merely a tantalizing rumor, like Ulysses S. Grant keeping kosher.” In my Jerusalem neighborhood, there are three quiet streets named for historic Hebrew newspapers. Ha-Melitz (The Advocate), founded in 1860 in Odessa, fostered […]
Thursday, February 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Laurence Norman WSJ, Feb. 19, 2023 “The news comes after the IAEA reported in early February that Iran had conducted nuclear work that wasn’t reported to it at the country’s heavily fortified Fordow underground enrichment facility.” United Nations atomic agency inspectors have detected uranium that has been enriched to near weapons-grade in Iran in recent […]
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Michael Lipin VOA News, Feb. 16, 2023 “We are looking at a holistic strategy, which encompasses all dimensions of Iranian activities, including in the nuclear field, in the regional field, the cooperation between Iran and Russia, and the internal situation in Iran, which has to be factored into any strategic thinking about this situation.” Israel’s […]
Thursday, February 23rd 2023
’ Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Feb. 20, 2023 “Military strategists guessing how a potential Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear program would look often suggest that the F-35 might go in first to remove the anti-aircraft missile system threat, but then that the F-15 aircraft (old or new) would do most of the actual striking […]
i24NEWS Calev Ben-David I24 News, Feb. 21, 2023 “It’s not just the problem of Israel, it’s the problem of the world. It’s the right time to take the relevant steps immediately.” In an exclusive interview with i24NEWS, Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen predicted that the Western world would impose “snapback” sanctions on Iran before the […]
Tuesday, February 21st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Carmit Balensi and Gallia Lindenstrauss INSS Insight No. 1689, Feb. 8, 2023 “A more likely explanation is that this is a political ploy by Erdogan ahead of upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, which were moved up and are now scheduled for May 14.” Since May 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to launch […]
Abdullah Bozkurt Nordic Monitor, Feb. 11, 2023 “Erdoğan, his family and his cronies in political and business establishments pocketed huge sums at the expense of the safety of citizens.” The large-scale destruction of property and huge number of casualties in Turkey’s massive earthquakes earlier this week have exposed decades of mismanagement, nepotism and waste […]
Bobby Ghosh Washington Post, Jan. 9, 2023 “Should Erdogan be defeated, says Sinan Ulgen, director of the Istanbul think tank EDAM, “his successor will transform Turkey into a different foreign policy actor, more comfortable with its position as a Western nation.” Among the many general elections of international consequence to watch this year, Nigeria’s, scheduled […]
Burak Bekdil Gatestone Institute, Feb. 3, 2023 “Most Turks still believe what they were taught at primary school: A Turk’s only friend is another Turk.” NATO is essentially a security alliance. Its preamble, however, states that the organization is founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. The grossly autocratic […]
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