Analysis
Wednesday, October 23rd 2024
Shlomo M. Brody Tablet, Oct. 15, 2014 “Another distinctive element of Simhat Torah is that in addition to reading the day’s Torah portion and its maftir, we take out a third Torah scroll to begin the reading of Genesis.” Simchat Torah is an anomaly on the Jewish calendar. The festival, which celebrates the completion […]
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Tuesday, October 22nd 2024
Frank Gardner BBC, Oct. 21, 2024 “Glaringly absent from these documents is any mention of what targets Israel intends to hit in Iran, or when.” US investigators are trying to find out how a pair of highly classified intelligence documents were leaked online. The documents, which appeared on the messaging app Telegram on Friday, contain […]
Iran International, Oct. 20, 2024 “After a series of incidents that have raised serious questions, many people have been concerned about possible Iranian influence and infiltration in the US government, not to mention those with animus towards a key US partner Israel.” As Washington investigates a top-secret document leak regarding Israel’s retaliation plans […]
Stephen Bryen Weapons & Strategy, Oct. 20, 2024 “There can be no doubt that the leak of geospatial-origin intelligence has brought significant harm to Israel.” “Middle East Spectator,” is a pro-regime Telegram outlet based in Tehran, as all media channels based in Tehran are – by law. Last week, Middle East Spectator leaked two sensitive intelligence documents […]
Julian E. Barnes, Ronen Bergman and David E. Sanger NY Times, Oct. 19, 2024 “If the latest leak is confined to a pair of satellite documents, it will be far less damaging. But the Discord leak started with a few documents, only to see dozens and dozens of pages come to light.” The […]
Monday, October 21st 2024
John Aziz Quillette, Oct. 19, 2024 “To judge him by his own terms, 7 October was a colossal and humiliating failure.” When I first heard, the news hadn’t yet been confirmed: there were just swirling rumours that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, had been killed in Gaza. But then within a half-hour, the press […]
Monday, October 21st 2024 / Monday, October 21st 2024
Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Oct. 17, 2024 “… there are consequences now to singling out Jews for special opprobrium and wicked violence. Do that today and you might very well die. Do that now and you might get your head caved in, as Sinwar did.” So Yahya Sinwar has been killed. The leader of Hamas in […]
J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, Oct. 20, 2024 “So Israel has to win, not just look for an excuse to “settle.” To invoke the framework of motives and methods laid out by Basil H. Liddell-Hart in his 1954 book Strategy, Israel has to seek a “better peace.”” In the aftermath of Yahya Sinwar’s death, it’s easy […]
Gary Willig Israel National News, Oct. 20, 2024 “It must also be remembered that all of the good that has been accomplished in the last month never would have happened if a ceasefire had been reached beforehand.” The month from September 17 through October 16 2024 may well be the most fateful and impactful […]
Wednesday, October 16th 2024
Meir Y. Soloveichik Commentary Magazine, October 2023 “But that was not all that Yadin found. The cavern contained letters from Bar Kochba himself, including one written in advance of the Sukkot holiday, referencing the ritual of waving a lulav, a palm frond:” Striking archeological discoveries are a constant in Israel, but they can still occasionally inspire wonder. […]
Dovid Bashevkin Tablet, Sept. 1, 2021 “I don’t know why we long so for permanence,” writes the philosopher and physicist Alan Lightman, “why the fleeting nature of things so disturbs.” Most Jewish holidays are easy to explain to your non-Jewish colleagues. Many, if not most, know about Passover, and after enough years with enough Jewish […]
Scott Walker Washington Times, Oct. 10, 2024 “Over and over again, we will counter attempts to glorify terrorists and their evil deeds with the truth about the horrors of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and all others who seek to harm Israel and Jewish people around the world. They continue trying to intimidate us, but we will not back […]
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