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Sunday, January 21st 2024

SHABBAT READING   The March of Folly:  פרשת בא:  BO • 5771, 5784, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — There is a fascinating moment in the unfolding story of the plagues that should make us stop and take notice. At the opening of this week’s parsha, seven plagues have now struck Egypt. The people are suffering. Several times Pharaoh seems to soften, only […]

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Thursday, January 18th 2024

ILLUSIONS SHATTERED LISTEN:  The Whitewashing of Hamas: The Brendan O’Neill Show, Spiked, Jan. 17, 2024 — Jake Wallis Simons – editor of the Jewish Chronicle – returns for this episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Jake and Brendan discuss the denial of Hamas’s crimes, the double standards of the ‘anti-Zionists’, and why Israelophobia is just anti-Semitism rebranded.   Sadly, The War […]

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Thursday, January 18th 2024 / Friday, January 26th 2024

Citation de la semaine:  « La vérité est en marche et rien ne l’arrêtera » Émile Zola (lors de l’Affaire Dreyfus) ________________________________________________________________________                                                          Table des Matières ________________________________________________________________________ Shmuel […]

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Wednesday, January 17th 2024 / Wednesday, January 17th 2024

COUNTERING CHINA   Lai Ching-te Will Be the Next President of Taiwan:  The Economist, Jan. 13, 2024 — On January 13th 2024, voters elected Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party as Taiwan’s next president. Inside Taiwan’s Strategy to Counter a Chinese Invasion | WSJ, YouTube, August 2023 — For decades, Taiwan has looked to its east coast as a safe haven […]

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Tuesday, January 16th 2024 / Tuesday, January 16th 2024

HOUTHIS RESPOND Houthi Rebels Hit US-Owned Cargo Ship In Gulf Of Aden:  Robert Wright, Andrew England and Shotaro Tani, Financial Times, Jan. 15, 2024  — Iran-backed Houthis struck a US-owned cargo ship on Monday, the first direct assault on a commercial vessel since American and British forces launched multiple strikes against the Yemeni rebels last week. Attacking the […]

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Monday, January 15th 2024 / Thursday, January 18th 2024

BEYOND POLITICAL THEATER Opening Statement of MFA Legal Advisor Dr. Tal Becker at the International Court of Justice Proceedings:  Dr. Tal Becker, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jan. 12, 2024 — 1.    The State of Israel is singularly aware of why the Genocide Convention, which has been invoked in these proceedings, was adopted. Seared in our collective memory […]

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Friday, January 12th 2024

SHABBAT READING   Invoking Creation in the Story of the Ten Plagues:  Prof. Zony Zevit, The Torah.com, Mar. 25, 2015 — The account of the ten plagues as we have it, in its final, redacted form, is a crafted piece of religious historiographical literature.[1] In my essay “The Ten Plagues and Egyptian Ecology”[2] I addressed the possibility that this account […]

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Thursday, January 11th 2024 / Thursday, January 11th 2024

Citation de la semaine « Agissez comme s’il était impossible d’échouer. »  Winston Churchill ________________________________________________________________________________                              Table des Matières ________________________________________________________________________________ 9 soldats tués à Gaza ; Tsahal étend sa progression vers le sud: Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman & Joshua Davidovich, Times of Israel, 9 January 2024 Qui était […]

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Thursday, January 11th 2024 / Thursday, January 11th 2024

Save the Military–Industrial Complex:  Jerry Hendrix, National Review, Nov. 30, 2023 No Shortcuts on Nuclear Deterrence:  Rebeccah L. Heinrichs, Hudson Institute, Jan. 2, 2024 Restoring Deterrence Should Be America’s Most Urgent Task In 2024:  Clifford D. May, Washington Times, Dec. 26, 2023 Biden’s Foreign-Policy Doom Loop:  Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, Dec. 18, 2023 _________________________________________________________________For Further Reference: Israel or Hamas? It’s […]

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Wednesday, January 10th 2024 / Wednesday, January 10th 2024

LOOMING ULTIMATUM? Iran Adds to Pressure on U.S. With Nuclear Program Acceleration:  Lawrence Norman, WSJ, Dec. 26, 2023 — Iran has tripled production of nearly weapons-grade uranium in a move likely to deepen its confrontation with the West as Tehran helps allied militias to attack Israel and U.S. forces in the region.  Iran, the Fulcrum of Mideast […]

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Tuesday, January 9th 2024

ISRAEL TARGETS RADWAN FORCES WATCH:  The Targeted Killing of Saleh Al-Arouri in Lebanon: Implications for the Israel-Hamas War:  Col (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah, Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jan. 4, 2024 Israeli Strike Kills a Hezbollah Commander In Lebanon, Sources In Lebanon Say:  Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily, Yahoo News, Jan. 8, 2024 — […]

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Monday, January 8th 2024 / Tuesday, January 9th 2024

ISIS- REDUX Israel vs. Hamas – What’s New?:  Israel vs. Hamas – What’s New?:  Lt.-Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Dr. Dan Diker, Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jan. 3, 2023  Why is the Gaza War Different?:  Jonathan Spyer, JNS, Dec. 31, 2023 — The current Israeli operation in Gaza has led […]