Isranet Daily Briefing

Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, December 31st 2024

“He [Arafat] was infamous for appearing moderate when speaking in English while fuming radically and inciting violence in Arabic. Throughout this time, he was being mentored by Carter, who not only advised him but even personally wrote a sample speech for him suggesting language to use that would allow him to more effectively gain sympathy […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, December 30th 2024

Israel Among the Nations:  Richard M. Reinsch II, Civitas Outlook, Dec. 11, 2024 This Year, Israel Showed Us What Anti-Fascism Really Means:  Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, Dec. 27, 2024 The Onslaught against the Jews Is an Onslaught against the West:  Melanie Phillips, Mosaic, Dec. 26, 2024 How the West’s Literary Elite Distorted Language To Justify Their […]

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Friday, December 27th 2024

“From this perspective, the revolt of the Maccabees against Greek rule wasn’t just about religious freedom or political independence from pagans. It was a fight between those Jews who accepted the Hellenic claim to intellectual superiority—to a human-oriented knowledge of science, mathematics, and philosophy that surpassed the intellectual achievements of all other cultures—and those who, […]

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Thursday, December 26th 2024 / Thursday, December 26th 2024

“Regardless of their faults, all three men shared a common trait at a critical moment in history—they trusted their own stubbornness against the mirror world of digitally based conformity. The human future rests on individuals in all walks of life and representing all parties and all currents of opinion being brave and independent-minded enough to […]

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Tuesday, December 24th 2024 / Tuesday, December 24th 2024

“The Americans said to me, ‘If you go into Rafah, you’re on your own, and we’re not going to send you the critical arms,’ which is tough to hear. . . . But if we don’t go into Rafah, we can’t exist as a sovereign state. We’d become a vassal state and we won’t survive. […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, December 23rd 2024

Referring to the Israeli attack on Hezbollah, using explosives in pagers, cartoonist Martyn Turner depicts an IDF soldier who looks dirty, sinister and with a large nose, a Jewish caricature which belongs in Der Sturmer. His thought bubble says ‘‘they all hate us so let’s get em’ painting Jews as justifying their place in the world only in terms of […]

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Sunday, December 22nd 2024 / Monday, December 23rd 2024

Citation de la semaine:   « Nous voulons entretenir des relations normales avec le nouveau régime syrien… Mais si ce régime permet à l’Iran de se réimplanter en Syrie, s’il autorise le transfert d’armes iraniennes ou de toute autre arme au Hezbollah ou s’il nous attaque, nous réagirons avec force et nous lui ferons payer […]

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Friday, December 20th 2024

SHABBAT READING Joseph Dreams that the Sun, Moon and Stars Bow to Him – Does It Come True?:  Dr. Mordecai David Rosen, The Torah.com,  Dec. 9, 2020 — The story of Joseph opens with him sharing a dream with his jealous brothers: בראשית לז:ו וַיֹּאמֶר אֲלֵיהֶם שִׁמְעוּ נָא הַחֲלוֹם הַזֶּה אֲשֶׁר חָלָמְתִּי. לז:ז וְהִנֵּה אֲנַחְנוּ מְאַלְּמִים אֲלֻמִּים בְּתוֹךְ […]

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Thursday, December 19th 2024

“There was no real strength behind Iran’s façade of strategic superiority.” – Jason M. Brodsky *** Why Tackling the Iranian Regime Should Be on Top of Trump’s Administration Agenda:  Hany Ghoraba, IPT News, Dec. 18, 2024 Will Tehran Be Next? Iran’s Myth of Power Has Been Shattered:  Edward Luttwack, Unherd, Dec. 10, 2024 This is Iran’s […]

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Wednesday, December 18th 2024

“They really want to find Israel guilty of genocide, hey? Even if it means entirely redefining genocide. Even if it means setting fire to decades of jurisprudence on this gravest of crimes. Even if it means sacrificing truth itself. No price is too high, it seems, in the zealous crusade to single out the Jewish […]

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Tuesday, December 17th 2024 / Thursday, December 19th 2024

“Western intelligence agencies are still trying to discern the nature of the relationship between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), its leader Golani and Turkish President Erdoğan. There is no doubt about their cooperation in intelligence sharing, weapons transfers and long-term strategic goals. The question, however, is whether Turkey merely influences the new Syrian regime or exercises […]

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Monday, December 16th 2024 / Thursday, December 19th 2024

Heartbreaking is a word that well describes the way Canadian Jews see their predicament these days. “I have never seen in all my life such a thing, such expressions from people of all ages, such expressions of apprehension, of isolation, insecurity, foreboding, expressed in different ways.  I see it when I meet with students; I see […]