Analysis
Friday, January 24th 2025
TOI staff Times of Israel, Jan. 23, 2025 “… the concern about burning intelligence sources was a mark of the IDF’s obliviousness.” It was 2 a.m. on October 7, 2023, when accounts reportedly started to filter into an Israeli Air Force command center of strange activities from Hamas’s aerial division and signs that the terror […]
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Itamar Eichner Ynet News, Jan. 22, 2025 “Don’t you see the devastation behind you? What victory is this? Do you never look at the balance sheet?” Members of Hamas‘ political bureau met with Turkish intelligence officials on October 7, 2023, the same day Hamas launched a devastating attack on Israel, killing over 1,200 people, Turkish […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Jan. 19, 2025 “The videos may be meant for propaganda in some cases, but the overall message is clear. Hamas has emerged from tunnels in Gaza and from the rubble in some areas and is clearly in control.” Hamas appears to be emerging from tunnels and rubble in Gaza to show that it […]
“ Ohad Merlin Jerusalem Post, Jan. 23, 2025 “However, it appears that, in Hamas’s theology, Hamas are not merely the Romans or the Babylonians who come to punish the Jews – but can rather also be the Israelites themselves.” Earlier this week, the spokesman for the Al-Qassam militia, Abu Obeida, released a pre-recorded speech on the […]
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A.J. Caschetta National Review, Jan. 19, 2025 “Blinken’s Foreign Affairs curtain bow has one single dispassionate mention of the hostages being held in Gaza but not a hint of righteous anger over their abduction. Nor is there any indication that he is as dedicated to the release of those hostages as he is to forcing an Israeli […]
Major General (res.) Yaakov Amidror JISS, Dec. 16, 2024 “In Gaza, the most important is to obtain the release of the hostages by force or agreement. In parallel, the IDF needs to turn the entire Gaza Strip into an area that it operates in as it does in Area A territories in the West Bank […]
Danny Zaken Israel Hayom, Jan. 22, 2025 “Yes to sovereignty, alongside broad autonomy for the Palestinians, but only after a process – neither Israel nor the Palestinians are ready for this now.” He hinted at the failure of Trump’s “Deal of the Century,” launched in January 2020, which never materialized.” In the eyes of Trump’s fresh administration, […]
Yaakov Lappin Times of Israel, Jan. 22, 2025 “Right now, the only realistic option for preventing Hamas’s resurgence is a temporary Israeli military administration.” As a ceasefire and hostage deal unfold in the Gaza Strip, and the IDF chief of staff and Southern Command chief announce their resignations, the Israeli security cabinet faces a critical […]
Wednesday, January 22nd 2025
WINDS OF CHANGE Preparing for the Antisemitism Awareness Act: Recommendations for Colleges and Universities; Debevoise, Jan. 16, 2025 — Republican majorities in the House and Senate will likely pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act in 2025. Elise Stefanik Vows to Fight ‘Anti-Semitic Rot’ at United Nations: Alana Goodman, Washington Free Beacon, Jan. 21, 2025 — Elise […]
Novi Zhukovsky The New York Sun, Jan. 21, 2025 “The settlement puts an end to two lawsuits filed against the school over its mishandling of antisemitism after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza.” ‘We now have a Harvard standard that other colleges will strive to meet,’ a leading authority […]
Ian Oxnevad National Association of Scholars, Jan. 20, 2025 “Depriving higher education’s anti-Semitism of financial oxygen is necessary, but the problem is not anti-Semitism alone.” America’s colleges and universities are going the way of Myspace and Blockbuster. A demographic cliff has led to shrinking demand, while a growing disgust for what higher education offers props […]
John M. Ellis The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, Jan. 8, 2025 “Why are college students, of all people, so ignorant of simple historical facts that make nonsense of their slogans? Short answer: That’s the way their radical teachers want them.” The scale of support on college campuses for militant antisemitism and even […]
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