Isranet Daily Briefing

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, December 15th 2023 / Friday, December 15th 2023

SHABBAT READING   Sibling Rivalry:  Mikketz, 5771, 5784, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — The Torah is a deep book. We make a great mistake if we think it can be understood on one superficial level. On the surface, the story is simple. Envious of him, Joseph’s brothers initially planned to kill him. Eventually they sell into slavery. He is […]

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Thursday, December 14th 2023

HAMAS IS ISIS Israel Security Chief in Letter to the World: ‘Do Not Interfere’:  Ben Caspit/Maariv, Jerusalem Post, Dec.  12, 2023 — Last month, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief Ronan Bar addressed a long and poignant letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in which he wrote, among other things: “We are determined to complete our mission in Gaza. […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, December 14th 2023

Citation de la semaine: « L’antisionisme est une incroyable aubaine, car il nous donne la permission – et même le droit, et même le devoir – d’être antisémite au nom de la démocratie ! L’antisionisme est l’antisémitisme justifié, mis enfin à la portée de tous. Il est la permission d’être démocratiquement antisémite. Et si les […]

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Wednesday, December 13th 2023 / Thursday, December 14th 2023

The Infamy Of The UN: It Invokes Against Israel the Article That It Has Never Invoked Against Russia: Counting Stars, Dec. 8, 2023 –The organization, headed by Portuguese socialist António Guterres, has once again exhibited that bias this week. In a letter published on Wednesday, December 6, Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter against Israel, alerting […]

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Tuesday, December 12th 2023

The Treason of the Intellectuals: Nial Ferguson, The Free Press, Dec. 11, 2023 If a University President Is Dreadful, Fire Him/Her/They/Ze/It:  Charles Lipson, Real Clear Politics, Dec. 11, 2023 How Rich Alumni Ousted Penn’s President Liz Magill:  Melissa Korn, Rachel Louise Ensign and Douglas Belkin, WSJ, Dec. 11, 2023 It’s Time for Congress to Open Harvard’s Books:  Adam Andrzejewski. Tablet, Dec. […]

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Monday, December 11th 2023

ENOUGH BLAME TO GO AROUND Why University Presidents are Under Fire:  Fareed Zakaria, CNN, Dec. 10, 2023 — When one thinks of America’s greatest strengths, the kind of assets the world looks at with admiration and envy, America’s elite universities would have long been at the top of that list. But the American public has been losing faith in these universities – and […]

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Thursday, December 7th 2023 / Thursday, December 7th 2023

OUTRIGHT LIES University Presidents’ Abhorrent Hypocrisy on Anti-Jewish Speech:  The Editors, National Review, Dec. 6, 2023 — All of a sudden, America’s elite universities have started to sound like John Stuart Mill. Asked yesterday by Representative Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) whether students who call for “intifada” or shout “from the river to the sea” were acting “contrary to […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, December 7th 2023 / Wednesday, December 13th 2023

Citation de la semaine: “A quelques-uns l’arrogance tient lieu de grandeur ; l’inhumanité de fermeté ; et la fourberie, d’esprit.”  De Jean de La Bruyére/Caractères            Table des Matières « Femmes victimes, on vous croit ! » Sauf si vous êtes Israéliennes                   […]

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Wednesday, December 6th 2023 / Wednesday, December 6th 2023

HARDLY NEUTRAL Qatar and Qatari Press Express Unreserved Support for Massive Hamas Terror Attack on Israel, Hold Israel Solely Responsible for It:  MEMRI, Oct. 9, 2023 — “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs holds Israel solely responsible for the ongoing escalation due to its ongoing violations of the rights of the Palestinian people, the latest of which was the […]

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Tuesday, December 5th 2023 / Tuesday, December 5th 2023

SET UP TO FAIL? WATCH:  Department Press Briefing – December 4, 2023: US Department of State, Matthew Miller, Department Spokesperson.  Includes transcript. WATCH:  The Intelligence Challenges Surrounding the War in Gaza:   Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Nov. 29, 2023 — Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser is Director of the Project on Regional Middle […]

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Monday, December 4th 2023

#MrFAFO Is Real: Liel Leibovitz, Tablet, Nov. 14, 2023 Can the Media Trust This Doctor in Gaza?: Nicole Lampert, Unherd, Dec. 2, 2023 The US Media’s Moral Blindness Over Hamas Is Showing, And It Isn’t Pretty:  Becket Adams, The Hill, Nov. 6, 2023 The New Antisemitism Is the Oldest Kind:  Lance Morrow, WSJ, Dec. 3, 2023 ________________________________________________________ FOR FURTHER […]

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Friday, December 1st 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

SHABBAT READING   Collective Responsibility:  VAYISHLACH • 5771, 5784, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — By any standards it was a shocking episode. Jacob had settled on the outskirts of the town of Shechem, ruled by Hamor. Dina, Jacob’s daughter, goes out to see the town. Shechem, Hamor’s son, sees her, abducts and rapes her, and then falls in […]