Isranet Daily Briefing

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Friday, July 4th 2025 / Friday, July 4th 2025

SHABBAT READING Moses Strikes the Rock: His Sin Depends on Your Worldview: Prof. Haim (Howard) Kreisel, The Torah.com, July 17, 2024 — Commentators read the Bible closely to make sense of problematic passages. Nevertheless, their explanations are rarely purely textual, but reflect their own ideologies. A parade example is determining the precise sin of Moses […]

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Thursday, July 3rd 2025

“Mamdani’s game is a shotgun marriage of ideological convenience. As Glastonbury’s descent into Nuremberg-with-tents shows, sticking it to the Jews has become integral to the radical performance: a kinds of degenerate Passion Play, the symbolic heart of the Omnicause.” — Dominic Green *** FOR REAL? The Buffalo Blueprint for Defeating Zohran Mamdani:  Jason L. Riley, […]

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Wednesday, July 2nd 2025

  “ … the [BBC] episode was “a time of national shame” that “brings confidence in our national broadcaster’s ability to treat antisemitism seriously to a new low.” — Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mirvis MORAL COURAGE This is an anti-Fascist:  Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, June 30, 2025 — The name we should remember from this […]

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Monday, June 30th 2025

STRENGHTENING TURKEY WATCH:  Episode 24: With Iran Down, Turkey Steps into the Breach – with Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak: Ask Haviv Anything, June 26, 2025   — Turkey was the first Muslim country to recognize Israel. I was an ally and vital trading partner for decades — until the rise of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, […]

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Friday, June 27th 2025

SHABBAT READING: Korah Took…:  Prof. Haim (Howard) Kreisel, The Torah.com, June 22, 2023 — After the punishment of the wilderness generation for the sin of the scouts, Korah, a Levite, leads a group of people in an uprising against Moses.[1] Their complaint seems straightforward and reasonable: Num 16:3 They gathered against Moses and Aaron and said to […]

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Thursday, June 26th 2025

SIGNIFICANT CORRELATION The ‘Forever War’ We Should Really Be Worried About:  Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, June 23, 2025 — Two big things happened on Sunday. First, America’s airforce pummelled nuclear sites in Iran. Using B-2 stealth bombers, they spirited bombs weighing 30,000 lbs into Iranian airspace and unloaded them over Iran’s three most important uranium-enrichment facilities. Finding God in […]

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Wednesday, June 25th 2025

“Fordow’s destruction – surgical, stunning, a reminder of Israeli and American reach – is a victory, yes. But it is the sort of victory that merely brings the war into new terrain. And this terrain, my dear readers, is not geological. It is ideological, and it is mobile.” — Catherine Perez-Shakdam   SUCCESS? Iran Concedes […]

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Monday, June 23rd 2025 / Monday, June 23rd 2025

STANDING UP FOR IRAN? The Gulf States the Day After the American Strike:  Yoel Guzansky, INSS, June 23, 2025 — Since the outbreak of the direct confrontation between Iran and Israel, the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries—Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman—have been watching events unfold with growing concern. Their primary […]

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Friday, June 20th 2025

SHABBAT READING: The Scouts’ Report: From Rhetoric to Demagoguery:  Dr. Sarah Schwartz, The Torah.com,  June 24, 2022— When the scouts return from traversing the land, they display the cluster of grapes they brought with them, and offer a report that initially sounds positive: Num 13:27 …We came to the land you sent us to; it does […]

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Thursday, June 19th 2025 / Thursday, June 19th 2025

NEXT STEP? How Close Was Iran to the Bomb, And How Far Has Israel Pushed It Back?:  David Horovitz, Times of Israel, June 18, 2025 — How close was Iran to the bomb, and how far has Israel now pushed it off? Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN’s nuclear weapons watchdog, the International Atomic […]

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Wednesday, June 18th 2025

WILL TRUMP DO IT? WATCH:  How Trump and Netanyahu Outfoxed Iran:  United With Israel, June 17, 2025 — Bari Weiss and Michael Doran, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, discuss how the dynamic between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fooled Iran into […]

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Tuesday, June 17th 2025

TURNING TO US? Iran Offers Nuclear Concessions If US Won’t Join Attack:  Dudi Kogan, Israel Hayom, June 16, 2025 —  Iran has transmitted “urgent” communications through Arab nations to the United States and Israel, expressing keen interest in swiftly concluding the military exchange with Israel and restarting nuclear discussions, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, based on European […]