Isranet Daily Briefing

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Monday, April 24th 2023

  “The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was not designed to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon. It was, rather, intended to create a fifteen-year window within which the United States could “integrate” Iran into the Middle Eastern system—that is, shift Washington’s strategic emphasis from the Arabian Peninsula and Israel to Iran.” – Seth Cropsey Prepare […]

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Friday, April 21st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

SHABBAT READING The Plague of Evil Speech:  Tazria, Metzora, 5768, 5783:  Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — The Rabbis moralised the condition of tzara’at – often translated as leprosy – the subject that dominates both Tazria and Metzora. It was, they said, a punishment rather than a medical condition. Their interpretation was based on the internal evidence of the Mosaic books […]

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Thursday, April 20th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

The Palestinian Resistance Axis Converges with the Iran-Hezbollah Axis:  Udi Dekel, INSS Insight, No. 1709, April 19, 2023 Hezbollah and Its Allies Are More Emboldened Than They’ve Been in Nearly Two Decades:  Nicholas Blanford, Atlantic Council, Apr. 13, 2023 Israel’s Main Military Challenges:  Dr. Ehud Eilam, BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Apr. 3, 2023 Saudi […]

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Wednesday, April 19th 2023 / Wednesday, April 19th 2023

Citation de la semaine: L’oubli signifierait danger et insulte. Oublier les morts serait les tuer une deuxième fois. Et si, les tueurs et leurs complices exceptés, nul n’est responsable de leur première mort, nous le sommes de la seconde. La nuit Elie Wiesel (préface de l’édition 2006) Table des Matières Yom HaShoah : Israël s’arrête […]

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Wednesday, April 19th 2023 / Wednesday, April 19th 2023

                       MEDIA-OCRITY The West Hoped Lula Would Be a Partner. He’s Got His Own Plans.:  Moriah Balingit and Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, Apr. 13, 2023 “In his first months in office, Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva has declined to join President Biden in […]

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Tuesday, April 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

INCREASING TIES Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) Before There Was a State:  Israel from the inside with Daniel Gordis, Substack, Apr. 17, 2023, Includes video — Tonight, in Israel and throughout the world, begins the observance of Yom HaShoah, technically called Yom Ha-Shoah ve-ha-Gevurah, which roughly translates as Memorial Day for Victims of the Holocaust and their Bravery. […]

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Monday, April 17th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  “Behind this vision, as always with the radical Democrats, is power, manifested in the drive arbitrarily to control individuals [which, again, involves de facto abrogation of Constitutional guarantees—much safer than a politically-risky direct assault on the Constitution] by limiting individual liberty and due process).” – Prof. Frederick Krantz Biden EPA’s New Vehicle Emissions Standards Spark Backlash from Auto Industry, Republicans: Nathan […]

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Friday, April 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

YHWH Battles the Egyptians with a Fiery Cloud:  Dr. David Ben-Gad HaCohen, The Torah.com, Apr. 7, 2023 — After the Israelites leave Egypt, the travel east to the border of the wilderness. שמות יג:כ וַיִּסְעוּ מִסֻּכֹּת וַיַּחֲנוּ בְאֵתָם בִּקְצֵה הַמִּדְבָּר.. Exod 13:20 They set out from Sukkot, and encamped at Etham, at the edge of the wilderness… […]

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Tuesday, April 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

INCREASING TIES WATCH:  Ruth Wisse Reflects on Anti-Semitism, the University, and American Society, Free as a Jew: Mosaic Magazine, Feb. 6, 2023  — In an in-depth discussion with Bari Weiss, drawn from her memoir Free as Jew (originally published in Mosaic), Ruth R. Wisse discusses her own remarkable life, the state of American Jewry today, the decline of America’s universities, the perils […]

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Monday, April 10th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

NO CLEAR ANSWERS Who Wrote the Ancient Passover Haggadah?:  Rabbi Ari Enkin, Algemeiner, Mar. 25, 2020 — Take a look at the inside cover of your Haggadah – you won’t find the name of any author! So how did we get the Haggadah that we have today? ____________________________________________________  WHAT’S TO BE DONE? INSS Experts on the Escalation in […]

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Tuesday, April 4th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

INCREASING TIES  It Came to Pass at Midnight—From the Amidah to the Passover Haggadah:  Prof. Rabbi Laura Lieber, The Torah.com, Sept. 26, 2020  –– The Passover Haggadah concludes with a series of songs, the first of which is וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּיְלָה, Vayhi BeChatzi HaLayla, “It Came to Pass at Midnight” (Exod 12:29). The song, however, was not […]

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Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century:  Jacob Siegel, Tablet, Mar. 28, 2023 Tablet’s Grand Opus on the Anti-Disinformation Complex:  Matt Taibbi, Racket News, Mar. 30, 2023 Disinformation In the Age of ChatGPT:  Maximiliana Wynne, Modern War Institute, Feb. 3, 2023 ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution:  Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher, WSJ, Feb. 24, […]