Analysis
Tuesday, July 26th 2022 / Tuesday, July 26th 2022
Soner Cagaptay and Andrew J. Tabler Washington Institute for Near East Policy, July 18, 2022 “An incursion into Tal Rifaat would deny the regime two vital resources: water supplies and a local airfield. It would also knock Iranian-backed militias down a peg and send them southward.” The July 19 Tehran summit between Presidents Recep Tayyip […]
Amir Avivi JNS, July 25, 2022 “Iran must be made to understand that it cannot continue to expand its influence and aggression in the region, detach Turkey from the Western orbit or find new ways to evade Western sanctions.” Less than a week after U.S. President Joe Biden left the Middle East following a visit […]
Michael Rubin Washington Examiner, June 28, 2022 “While Erdogan has transformed Turkey into a state sponsor of terrorism, Syrian Kurdish forces that evolved ideologically from the PKK rallied to fight and defeat the Islamic State.” It’s become boilerplate diplomatic and journalistic language whenever Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan throws a temper tantrum about Kurdish self-governance […]
Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak Mosaic, July 8, 2022 “Today, Turkish interests dictate that Erdoğan reconcile with Israel, and that’s what he’s doing. It doesn’t mean that he’s doing it because he really believes in his heart that it’s right.” Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak is the Turkey analyst at Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and […]
Monday, July 25th 2022 / Monday, July 25th 2022
Ron Kampeas The Times of Israel, July 16, 2022 “Now for the first time, there is a separate law that criminalizes any relationship with Israel or with Israeli citizens, not just political or defense but also NGOs, charitable organizations, mercantile relationships, will automatically trigger either execution or life in prison.” It has become a kind […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2022 “In just the past four months, two US Navy ships have stopped two shipments containing a variety of advanced weapons, many of which are Iranian-made versions of Russian designs or Iranian-designed munitions.” The UK’s Royal Navy seized Iranian weapons during two incidents this January and February. According to the […]
Anshel Pfeffer Haaretz, July 13, 2022 “This new generation of Israeli air defense systems will serve our allies, who are also exposed to severe threats from Iran.” The regional defense alliance that Defense Minister Benny Gantz and other Israeli politicians have been talking up in recent weeks – which they have dubbed MEAD, or Middle […]
Monday, July 25th 2022
Eric Schmitt, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and John Ismay NY Times, July 17, 2022 “Russia had its own formidable arsenal of drones entering the war, but the potential delivery of hundreds of armed and unarmed Iranian drones would help the Kremlin replenish a fleet that has suffered steep losses during the nearly five-month campaign.” The White House […]
Friday, July 22nd 2022 / Friday, July 22nd 2022
Samuel Goldman Mosaic, July 5, 2022 “… both men belonged to the first generation of Jews whose political, intellectual, and religious lives were conducted in the shadow of the Holocaust.” Liberals tend to assume that the course of human events follows a trajectory of incremental progress. Human character and institutions are imperfect, but over time […]
Blake Smith Tablet, Feb. 22, 2022 “Taubes’ lectures represent one of the most powerful critiques of liberalism, understood not only as a political philosophy, but as a spiritual disposition, or rather a spiritual desiccation, by which liberals neutralize the radical promises of faith.” The publication of Professor of Apocalypse, the first comprehensive biography of Jacob Taubes in English, […]
Shaul Maggid Tablet, Oct. 12, 2021 “Like any true American, Kahane could not escape the question of anti-Black racism. Nor did he try.” Introduction: Why Kahane? In the early spring of 2018 I was attending a bat mitzvah in a Jewish suburb of a major American city. The bat mitzvah was at a large Modern […]
Tova Benjamin Jewish Currents, May 23, 2022 “While many American and Israeli Jews believed themselves altruistic saviors of their Soviet counterparts, they were also political actors whose activism advanced their own countries’ domestic political agendas. “ THE LARGEST Jewish political rally in United States history took place on a mild winter day, December 6th, 1987, when a quarter […]
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