Isranet Daily Briefing

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, June 22nd 2022

   WEEKLY QUOTES “Without pressure from the West, the Islamic regime in Iran could get their hands on a nuclear bomb very soon. The world must take a firm stance … Iran’s nuclear program won’t stop until it’s stopped.” — Israel PM Naftali Bennett to The Telegraph.  Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on May 17 […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, June 21st 2022

Far-right Conspiracy Theories Are Now Embedded in the UK Mainstream:  Melanie Phillips, Open Democracy, May 24, 2022 — The threat of far-right terrorism is overstated, according to Sir William Shawcross, who is leading an independent review of the UK government’s anti-extremism strategy Prevent. Renewed EU Aid to Palestinian Authority Will Compromise Fight Against Antisemitism in […]

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Monday, June 20th 2022 / Thursday, June 23rd 2022

The Great Paradox of Swedish Neutrality in the Cold War and Today:  Susanne Berger, War on the Rocks, Dec. 28, 2015 — For years now, political observers have struggled to properly assess Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aims and ambitions. One large obstacle standing in the way of realistic analysis might be that today’s […]

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Friday, June 17th 2022

Is It Time to Rethink the Relationship Between Jews and Elite Universities?:Irit Tratt, Algemeiner, June 1, 2022 Why I Quit Georgetown:Ilya Shapiro, WSJ, June 6, 2022 Two Ivy League Presidents Are Stepping Down. They Leave Different Legacies on Campus Israel Speech and Antisemitism.:Andrew Lapin and Caleb Guedes-Reed, JTA, June 10, 2022 What Princeton Did to […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, June 16th 2022 / Thursday, June 16th 2022

Citation de la semaine: “ Plus on est près du pouvoir, plus on risque de se brûler.  Proverbe iranien ; Mille et un proverbes de l’Iran (1969)”   Israël a changé de stratégie vis-à-vis de l’Iran  Jacques BENILLOUCHE, Friday June 10, 2022 USA : Les députés favorables à une alliance d’Israël et 9 États arabes contre […]

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Thursday, June 16th 2022 / Thursday, June 16th 2022

Jonathan Haidt: We Are on a Path To ‘Catastrophic Failure’ of Our Democracy If We Don’t Change:  Jacob Hess, Deseret News, June 5, 2022 — Few have done more to raise national awareness about the potential implications of the hyperpartisan, toxically polarized spiral we are in than Jonathan Haidt, the Thomas Cooley professor of ethical […]

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Wednesday, June 15th 2022

WEEKLY QUOTES  “Without pressure from the West, the Islamic regime in Iran could get their hands on a nuclear bomb very soon. The world must take a firm stance … Iran’s nuclear program won’t stop until it’s stopped.” — Israel PM Naftali Bennett to The Telegraph.  Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on May 17 confirmed […]

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Tuesday, June 14th 2022 / Tuesday, June 14th 2022

World Today: Turkey’s Stance on NATO Expansion Is ‘Blackmail’, Expert Says:  TVP World, May 15, 2022 — In this episode of World Today, TVP World focuses on Turkey’s role in the context of the war in Ukraine and its recent unenthusiastic stance on the idea of Finland and Sweden joining NATO. TVP World asked Daniel Pipes of […]

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Friday, June 3rd 2022

WATCH:  Understanding the Jewish Romance with the Law:  Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik, Mosaic Magazine, June 11, 2019 — Psalm 19 states that “the precepts of the Lord are just, bringing joy to the heart; . . . the laws of the Lord are true, righteous altogether, more desirable than gold, than much fine gold; sweeter than […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, June 2nd 2022 / Thursday, June 2nd 2022

Citation de la semaine: “Je ne vis pas à Jérusalem, Jérusalem vit en moi.” Élie Wiesel Départ de Jérusalem en 1897, un film des Frères Lumière Yom Yeroushalayim : Plus de 2 600 Juifs ont visité le Mont du Temple, un record EMANUEL FABIAN et AARON BOXERMAN Times of Israel, 29 mai 2022,  Huit mythes sur «l’occupation» […]

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Thursday, June 2nd 2022 / Thursday, June 2nd 2022

Taiwan FM to ‘Post’: China Preps to Invade Us, Israel Can’t Trust Beijing:  Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post, May 30, 2022 — Voicing concern about a possible Chinese invasion of his country, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu warned Israel – in an exclusive interview on Monday – from relying too heavily on China. China Threatens to […]

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Wednesday, June 1st 2022 / Wednesday, June 1st 2022

MEDIA-OCRITIES OF THE WEEK   My Lunch with President Biden:  Thomas Friedman, NY Times, May 22, 2022“For all you knuckleheads on Fox who say that Biden can’t put two sentences together, here’s a news flash: He just put NATO together, Europe together and the whole Western alliance together — stretching from Canada up to Finland and all the […]