Isranet Daily Briefing

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, December 14th 2022 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

MEDIA-OCRITIES OF THE WEEK   The ‘Twitter Files’ Is What It Claims to Expose:  Eric Levitz, MSN, Dec. 10, 2022 “In company email exchanges obtained by Taibbi, Twitter safety chief Yoel Roth and Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker explained that they had chosen to mark tweets linking to the Post story as “unsafe” on the grounds that […]

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Tuesday, December 13th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

BIDEN COMES TO RUSSIA’S RESCUE United States of America v. Viktor Bout:  International Crimes Database — Viktor Bout, a notorious international arms dealer also known as the Merchant of Death, was alleged of trafficking weapons to several African warlords, dictators in the Middle East, and the Colombian FARC. — [The Biden administration exchanged Viktor Bout in a prison swap […]

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Tuesday, December 13th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

LEADER FOR LIFE The World According to Xi Jinping:  Kevin Rudd, Foreign Affairs, Nov.-Dec. 2022 — In the post–Cold War era, the Western world has suffered no shortage of grand theories of history and international relations. The settings and actors may change, but the global geopolitical drama goes on: variants of realism and liberalism compete to explain and […]

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Friday, December 9th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Shabbat reading: A 12th Century Derasha on Parashat Vayishlach: Reconstructing the Speaker’s Notes: Dr. Moshe Lavvee, Dr. Oded Rosenblum and Dr. Shana Strauch-Schick, The Torah.com, Dec. 14, 2016 — Almost a century ago, a most unusual fragment was discovered at the Cairo Geniza. Rather cryptically, it only consists of a list of 4-8 biblical verses […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, December 9th 2022 / Friday, December 9th 2022

Citation de la semaine: “Un fourbe me tend un piège dont je sais me garantir : je ris de sa mauvaise volonté. Je n’en tirerai pas d’autre vengeance, ni de honteuses pensées, je m’en moque.” Citation chinoise – Les sentences et pensées morales chinoises (1832)   Le Double Jeu du Qatar : Financer des Islamistes […]

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Thursday, December 8th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Laptopgate “Reading between the lines of all available evidence, you can find an organized effort by the bureau to put its thumb on the scale for Joe Biden’s campaign.” – Andrew C. McCarthy   “A FRANKENSTEINIAN TALE” Thread: THE Twitter FILES:  Matt Taibi, Twitter, Dec. 2, 2022 — What you’re about to read is the first installment […]

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Wednesday, December 7th 2022

  MEDIA-OCRITIES NYT‘s Mara Gay: Any Understanding of the Republican Party Without the Historical Backlash to Civil Rights Is Incomplete:  Real Clear Politics, Nov. 28, 2022   “…The origin of the Republican Party as we know it today really has to do with a backlash to civil rights. And so any understanding of that Republican […]

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Tuesday, December 6th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

“But there is a deeper issue, best illustrated by EA’s recent turn toward “longtermism.” The longtermist conceit offers a spectacular gamble on the future of human civilization, one that parallels SBF’s calculated bet that he could bluff crypto finance into the mainstream.– Ariel Ron      GAMBLING BIG ON THE FUTURE The Contradictions of Effective Altruism:  Ariel […]

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Monday, December 5th 2022

SCI-FI SCENARIOS American Anarchy, Chinese Control, International Intermediate:  Balaji Srinivasan, The Network State.com, July 4, 2022 — Here we give a bit more detail on a sci-fi scenario in which the US descends into a chaotic Second American Civil War, the CCP responds with the opposite extreme of a total surveillance state that traps wealth in […]

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Friday, December 2nd 2022 / Friday, December 2nd 2022

    “This was the entity that hacked into Equifax and literally collected information on close to 150 million Americans.  In a world where the analogy is ‘data is the new oil,’ we should be concerned about all this data about American citizens ending up in the hands of the Communist Party of China.” – […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, December 2nd 2022 / Wednesday, December 7th 2022

Citation de la Semaine: « L’excès de courage est un procédé coutumier à celui qui veut faire diversion » François Mitterrand  Aviv Kohavi:  »Nous nous trouvons à un stade critique de notre lutte contre l’Iran »  LPH INFO, novembre 22, 2022 Israël a fourni des informations sur les transferts d’armes iraniennes vers la Russie à des […]

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Thursday, December 1st 2022

“The report said the video footage will rekindle memories of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, when hundreds – if not thousands – of Chinese protesters were killed by soldiers in tanks.” – India.com   TAKING ON THE PLA China’s Covid Protests a Youthful Cry For Openness:  James Chin, Asia Times, Nov. 29, 2022 — While […]