Analysis
Friday, December 13th 2024 / Tuesday, December 17th 2024
Niall Ferguson The Free Press, Dec. 12, 2024 “The vibe shift is, in essence, escalation versus de-escalation.” I am a 60-year-old Scotsman with a penchant for red suspenders, oolong tea, and the novels of Walter Scott—so no one will ever accuse me of being an arbiter of cool. But to understand politics and even geopolitics you […]
Friday, December 13th 2024
Vita Fellig JNS, Dec. 5, 2024 The German-Jewish writer Franz Kafka, who died 100 years ago at age 40, is on the short list of people whose name has become an eponymous adjective. The term “Kafkaesque” suggests bureaucratic folly, but Kafka, whose life and work is being celebrated in major exhibitions in Israel, Germany and […]
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Adam Bellow Sapir, Nov. 18, 2024 In 1970 my father, Saul Bellow, published Mr. Sammler’s Planet. His seventh novel, it came on the heels of major works that had long since established him as the preeminent American writer of his generation. The book was immediately hailed as a triumph, reviewed and praised in every significant outlet. […]
Thursday, December 12th 2024 / Thursday, December 12th 2024
Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Dec. 10, 2024 “Hadas Kline, Milchin’s aide, who accused Netanyahu of illegalities in Case 1000 and is considered the case’s most important witness.” Starting Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will begin testifying in his own public corruption trial proceedings– which could take several weeks. The defense is set to present its […]
Thursday, December 12th 2024
Caroline B. Glick JNS, Dec. 6, 2024 “The public persecution of Feldstein and the NCO serves two ends. First, it seeks to criminalize Netanyahu and second, it aims to deter other intelligence officers from providing the prime minister with critical information about the war.” This week, Channel 11’s journalist Ayala Hasson broadcast a two-part exposé on […]
Jeremy Sharon Times of Israel, Dec. 12, 2024 “It’s not good to be a friend of Bibi; it doesn’t help,” Netanyahu said.” On his second day of testimony in his criminal trial, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted repeatedly that he never came to any give-and-take arrangement with business tycoon Shaul Elovitch and asserted that the […]
Elinor Shirkani Kofman and Erez Linn Israel Hayom, Dec. 10, 2024 “Netanyahu added that he could have gained favorable media coverage by simply “moving a few steps to the left” but chose instead to maintain positions he believed were “essential to ensure our existence.”” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stand Tuesday in his long-running corruption […]
Wednesday, December 11th 2024
Tom Rogan Unherd, Dec. 8, 2024 “Putin’s overambition has come home to roost. He thought he had won in Syria and could easily squash Ukraine. Now the consequences of his latter failing have reverberated in the former country.” Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown, fleeing Damascus after a rapid rebel advance. But the Syrian dictator is far from […]
Owen Matthews The Spectator World, Dec. 8, 2024 “Syria never became a great patriotic project for Putin’s Kremlin. Russia’s airbase in Hmemim and a tiny naval base at Tartus, near Latakia, were always of more symbolic and diplomatic value than practical.” The Kremlin’s involvement in Syria’s civil war was always, first and foremost, about posing […]
Hanna Notte NY Times, Dec. 10, 2024 “No amount of rhetorical gymnastics by Russia’s spin doctors can distract from the fact that the abandonment of Mr. al-Assad is the clearest sign, since Mr. Putin invaded Ukraine, that there are new limits on Russian power projection.” This time, when Bashar al-Assad started to fall, Russia was […]
Sune Engel Rasmussen and Thomas Grove WSJ, Dec. 7, 2024 “To see Russian planes leave Syria as rebel forces move onward towards their air bases, and their assets in Damascus fall, this would be so devastating for the Russian image of itself. It would be akin to a Saigon moment for them.” A fast-advancing rebel offensive […]
Tuesday, December 10th 2024
Jonathan Spyer WSJ, Dec. 8, 2024 “In each case, Israel’s response laid bare the profound inferiority of the Iranians and their allies in direct confrontation.” The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria marks the eclipse of Iran’s self-styled axis of resistance in the Middle East. While the successful advance of the Syrian Sunni insurgents […]
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