Isranet Daily Briefing

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Monday, December 19th 2022 / Monday, December 19th 2022

WATCH: How A British General Captured Jerusalem 100 Years Ago On Chanukah:  World Israel News, Dec. 11, 2017 — Author Lenny Ben-David discusses the topic of his book, American interests in the Holy Land 1840-1940, with WIN reporter Steve Leibowitz. He also tells a little-known story about British General Edmund Allenby and his connection to the […]

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Friday, December 16th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

SHABBAT READING: Why Does the Torah Describe Babies Born Hands First?’:  Dr. Eran Viezel, The Torah.com, Nov. 28, 2018  The story of Judah and Tamar in Genesis 38 ends with Tamar giving birth to twins:[1] בראשית לח:כז וַיְהִי בְּעֵת לִדְתָּהּ וְהִנֵּה תְאוֹמִים בְּבִטְנָהּ. לח:כח וַיְהִי בְלִדְתָּהּ וַיִּתֶּן יָד וַתִּקַּח הַמְיַלֶּדֶת וַתִּקְשֹׁר עַל יָדוֹ שָׁנִי לֵאמֹר זֶה יָצָא רִאשֹׁנָה. לח:כט וַיְהִי כְּמֵשִׁיב יָדוֹ וְהִנֵּה […]

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Thursday, December 15th 2022 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

Citation de la semaine: “Les épigrammes sont des petites flèches déliées, qui font une plaie profonde et inaccessibles aux remèdes.” Montesquieu, Lettres persanes Compte à rebours iranien Times of Israel, NOV 27 2022 La Maison Blanche sonne l’alarme sur “le partenariat militaire à grande échelle” entre Russie et Iran i24 news, 09 décembre 2022 CNN rapporte […]

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Thursday, December 15th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

ALL ABOUT JOE Biden Family Corruption Is Being Covered Up, and It All Leads to Joe:  Matt Margolis, PJ Media, Dec. 13, 2022 — According to Peter Schweizer, the president of the Government Accountability Institute, there is an ongoing cover-up involving Hunter Biden’s shady foreign business dealings and Joe Biden’s involvement with them. Hunter Biden’s […]

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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 […]

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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 […]