Analysis
Monday, December 9th 2024
Dr. Eric R. Mandel Jerusalem Post, Dec. 8, 2024 “Russia will do all it can to preserve its Hmeimim air base in Latakia and its Tartus naval port on the Mediterranean. The Iran alliance is a casualty for the time being. However, Russia will still work with Iran as part of the axis of resistance, […]
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Lahav Harkov Jewish Insider, Dec. 8, 2024 “… a nuclear Iran is a more immediate and tangible matter.” With the stunning fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday, another branch of Iran’s “axis of resistance” to Israel has been eliminated, a positive development with strategic opportunities for Israel, though there are still risks to […]
JCFA Iran-Syria Desk Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Dec. 8, 2024 “Israel should leverage the regional chaos and confusion to bolster its own interests.” Syria’s pro-Iranian Alawite minority has fallen. Syria’s ancient capital of Damascus was captured by the most formidable element of the anti-Assad coalition, the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). The group is led by the Sunni Islamic fundamentalist Abu […]
Farnaz Fassihi NY Times, Dec. 7, 2024 “Resistance in the region would be left without support. Israel would become the dominant force.” For decades, Iran has expended much blood and money in support of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, helping him survive a civil war that threatened his dynastic rule. Iran operated military bases, weapons warehouses […]
Saturday, December 7th 2024
David Bensoussan The author is a professor of science at the University of Quebec Philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy wrote on X: “I keep reading everywhere that Lebanon is ‘on the verge of collapse.’ No. It is on the verge of relief and liberation.” This observation reflects an unprecedented turning point in the country’s political and military […]
Friday, December 6th 2024
Ron Ben Yishai Ynet News, Dec. 5, 2024 “Israel is concerned about these militias and the Hezbollah forces entering Syria, as they could signify the beginning of a long-term Iranian military presence in the country through its proxies.” The rapid southward advance of Sunni jihadist rebels and the capture of the city of Hama appear […]
Kasra Aarabi and Saeid Golkar The Telegraph, Dec. 5, 2024 “Khamenei and the IRGC are fully aware that losing Assad would land a decisive blow to their regime’s regional ambitions and eternal quest to eradicate Israel. Tehran spent a significant amount of money and blood to preserve Assad the last time he was on the brink […]
Carrie Keller-Lynn WSJ, Dec. 5, 2024 “… that rebel group’s blend of nationalism and Islamism, which echoes the ideology of Afghanistan’s Taliban and Palestinian Hamas, is regarded by Israel as a dangerous threat, particularly were it to come to power in neighboring Syria.” The surprising advance by opposition forces in Syria’s civil war poses a conundrum for […]
Kasra Aarabi and Saeid Golkar Middle East Forum, Dec. 4, 2024 “The ballistic missiles Iran’s regime has been firing are called Khaybar Destroyers—in other words, “Jew destroyers.”” With the murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, an Israeli rabbi who helped provide kosher food in the United Arab Emirates, now confirmed as terrorism, the Iranian regime’s involvement is […]
Thursday, December 5th 2024
David Blaff National Post, Dec. 4, 2024 “Discrimination doesn’t just impact doctors, it undermines the entire health-care system, compromising patient care and eroding workplace integrity. This is a crisis for all people in Ontario, not just Jewish doctors.” Nearly one third of Jewish medical practitioners in Ontario are considering leaving the country in response to […]
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Isabelle Taft NY Times, Nov. 25, 2024 “Some of the tactics protesters used last semester have been met with stringent responses this school year.” Colleges and universities have tightened rules around protests, locked campus gates and handed down stricter punishments after the disruptions of pro-Palestinian demonstrations and encampments last spring. The efforts seem to be […]
Zahava Feldstein Moment, Nov. 25, 2024 “I learned that the European white supremacy from which colonialism, racism and Nazism arose had solidified its antisemitic core hundreds of years prior. A hatred of Jews was built into dominant European ideas about the world and structures of power well before either 1492 or 1619.” “Zionists are the […]
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