Analysis
Thursday, August 15th 2024
Paul Sperry Real Clear Investigations, June 19, 2024 “… his organization, which employs a full-time campus outreach coordinator, is under both federal and state investigation for ties to Hamas, and is also a defendant in a major new lawsuit brought by survivors of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack.” Echoing the Muslim prophet Muhammad, […]
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Anat Peled and Carrie Keller-Lynn SPME, July 10, 2024 “Israelis are finding they are no longer welcome at many European universities, including participating in scientific collaborations. Their participation in cultural institutions and defense trade shows is increasingly becoming taboo.” Years of pro-Palestinian campaigning for a global boycott against Israel once found limited support. But in […]
Wednesday, August 14th 2024
Salem Alktebi Israel Hayom, Aug. 11, 2024 “For the first time, the Iranian regime finds its hands bound from a genuine military response that would restore its pride, especially since the theatrics it carried out in response to targeting the Iranian consulate in Damascus did not convince anyone.” No analyst would doubt that the Iranian regime […]
Gordon G. Chang Gatestone Institute, Aug. 14, 2024 “China, until the killing of Haniyeh, seemingly was driving events in the Middle East, but it now looks as if Beijing’s green light for an Iranian attack on Israel is an attempt to stop an unfavorable trend.” China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on August 11 told Iran’s acting […]
Laurence Norman and Michael R. Gordon WSJ, Aug. 9, 2024 “Driving the change in the new intelligence assessment is scientific and engineering research work that Iran has been doing over the past year.” Iran is pursuing research that has put it in a better position to launch a nuclear-weapons program, according to a new […]
Farzin Nadimi The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Aug. 9, 2024 “During the April 13 attack, Iran stated that it did not use some of its most modern and capable ballistic missiles, probably expecting that the worst of the conflict was yet to come.” The July 31 killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh […]
Tuesday, August 13th 2024
Canaan Lidor Times of Israel, Aug. 12, 2024 “Tisha B’Av invokes October 7 not because of the onslaught’s death toll — the highest of any massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — but because “our identity is now once again linked to pain, loss, and tragedy that makes Tisha B’Av one of deeper meaning, prayer, […]
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, July 28, 2014 “What the Torah tells us early on is how humanity failed. They did so in two ways. They created freedom without order. Or they created order without freedom. That is still the human tragedy.” Nine days from now Jewish communities around the world […]
Tanya White Times of Israel, Aug. 9, 2024 “The current war Israel is fighting has suffered from many failures, one of the greatest of which is the failure of the echelons of leadership to provide an effective narrative.” At the end of the hit musical “Hamilton,” there is a song whose lyrics continue […]
Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin The Torah.com, July 31, 2022 “ … at times, the voices in Lamentations interrupt each other within the same verse.[19] According to this Talmudic interpretation cited by Rashi, God would be the one interrupting here, but, as Greenstein writes, the one voice that is conspicuously absent from the book of Lamentations […]
Saul J. Singer Jewish Press, Aug. 7, 2024 “As the sun set over Jerusalem the Golden reunited at last, Jews of all backgrounds and ethnicities gathered at the Wall on Tisha B’Av for the first time in two millennia. Sitting on the hallowed ground holding small candles, they participated in thousands of small minyanim […]
Monday, August 12th 2024
Avital Indig/ Makor Rishon Israel Hayom, July 10, 2024 “Over the course of time antisemitism has led to two opposite processes: For some, it has aroused a strong desire to distance themselves from Judaism and to assimilate, while among others it has actually sparked a will to withdraw inwards and to bring the Jewish community […]
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