Analysis
Wednesday, January 29th 2025 / Wednesday, January 29th 2025
Michael R. Gordon WSJ, Jan. 26, 2025 “It’s an interesting opening gambit, but it’s hard to imagine it having much traction as an idea.” President Trump’s Saturday night proposal that Palestinians vacate a devastated Gaza marked a sharp break with his predecessor and introduced a contentious new initiative into his unfolding Middle East diplomatic plans. Trump said […]
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Tuesday, January 28th 2025 / Tuesday, January 28th 2025
Jacob Howland Unherd, Jan. 27, 2025 “Political opportunism and widespread antisemitism have distorted the way the Holocaust is remembered.” When Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz 80 years ago today, on 27 January 1945, they found only 7,000 gravely ill and dying inmates. The SS had left them behind when they hastily abandoned the camp for Germany […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Jan. 26, 2025 “… these commemorations are not assisting in educating the world about where tolerance of Jew-hatred leads.” In the 20 years since it was created by a vote in the U.N. General Assembly in 2005, International Holocaust Remembrance Day has become a staple of the world community’s calendar. It […]
Deborah Fineblum JNS, Jan. 22, 2025 “Survivors went about starting new lives with their bare hands. At the end of the day, faced with so much betrayal, loss and death, the survivors chose life.” David Frankel was 8 on the cold December night in 1944 when his mother told him to run quickly from her […]
Ruth R. Wisse WSJ, Jan. 23, 2025 “This war against the Jews isn’t like the last. While Nazism’s racial attack on alleged inferiors could never claim the moral high ground, the inversion that defines Zionism as racism mobilizes worldwide coalitions in institutions that support jihad as anticolonial justice.” Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Władysław Bartoszewski did […]
Monday, January 27th 2025
Shahram Sabzevari World Crunch, Jan. 23, 2025 “The Zangezur corridor is a symbol of close and fruitful collaborations between Turkey and Azerbaijan.” Discreet at first, Turkey is now open in its backing for Syria’s new ruler, Ahmad al-Sharaa, the Islamist rebel whose forces toppled the Iran-backed Bashar al-Assad. Indeed, Assad’s fall is affecting ties between the Islamic […]
Loqman Radpey Jerusalem Post, Jan. 19, 2025 “Turkey’s partnership with Qatar in financing Islamic movements reveals a coordinated strategy to dominant Sunni Muslim communities globally, especially after the weakening of Iran’s “axis of resistance.”” Turkey’s bold foreign policy moves in recent years reflect a determined effort to redefine its regional and global role. From its […]
Yoni Ben Menachem Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Jan. 15, 2025 “Western intelligence sources suggest Erdogan harbors ambitions of reviving the Ottoman Empire, seeking to position himself as a modern-day sultan or caliph overseeing Sunni forces in the Middle East, including Jerusalem, which was once part of the Ottoman Empire.” Rising Turkish Influence […]
Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak JISS, Jan. 14, 2025 “Turkish ambitions in Syria appear to extend beyond the territorial.” The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime – brought about by Syrian opposition forces with Turkey’s backing – has created an unprecedented opportunity for Ankara to redefine its role as a regional power in line with its […]
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 […]
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 […]
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