Analysis
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 […]
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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 […]
Simon Sebag Montefiore The Free Press, Dec. 8, 2024 “It is impossible to watch the fall of the brutal tyranny of the House of Assad without feeling joy.” In Qardaha, in the Alawite lands of Latakia on the Mediterranean, stands the sumptuous and pristine marble mausoleum worthy of an Arab monarch. It is here the founder of […]
Tuesday, December 10th 2024 / Tuesday, December 10th 2024
Jonathan Schanzer Commentary Magazine, Dec. 8, 2024 “The Syrian border with Israel, now fortified with ground troops and air power, is one to watch in the weeks and months ahead.” The Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria has collapsed. Sunni rebels, backed by Turkey and Qatar, completed their lightning offensive last night after just a few short […]
Gianluca Pacchiani Times of Israel, Dec. 9, 2024 “According to my understanding, Trump will focus on the Pacific region, China, and the global economy, but first and foremost on American domestic affairs. So the incoming administration has a plan to deal with the Middle East before Trump comes into office, and that includes a retreat […]
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