Isranet Daily Briefing

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, January 17th 2022 / Monday, January 17th 2022

Goodbye Pandemic, Hello Endemic:Joe Wang, Epoch Times, Jan. 16, 2022 — In early 1918, when World War I entered its final year, the H1N1 influenza A virus infected millions of people, causing the Spanish flu pandemic. By April 1920, after four waves and almost 100 million deaths, the pandemic ended. H1N1 became much less deadly and caused only […]

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Friday, January 14th 2022 / Friday, January 14th 2022

The Continuing Plight of the Yazidi People; New Documentary:  Doris Stubb Epstein, Israfax, Jan. 12, 2022 — The nightmare began on August 3, 2014.   ISIS militants attacked the Yezidis in their millennial-old homeland in northern Iraq, killing thousands of men and older women on the spot and displacing more than 360,000 others in days. Thousands of […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, January 14th 2022 / Friday, January 14th 2022

Citation de la semaine: “Il y a des leçons à prendre de cette civilisation juive, c’est une civilisation qui s’aime, qui s’apprécie, et qui estime ne pas avoir à faire de génuflexions devant toutes les autres civilisations, ni présenter ses excuses pour pouvoir exister” Michel Onfray L’Occident, principal obstacle à la paix au Proche-Orient ? […]

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Thursday, January 13th 2022

Why the Jan. 6 ‘Big Lie’ Narrative Will Fail:  Holman W. Jenkins Jr. WSJ, Jan. 7, 2022 To Save America, the GOP Fist Has to Save Itself:  Gerald Baker, WSJ, Jan. 3, 2022 Dis-United States: Steven F. Hayward, NY Post, Jan. 8, 2022 What Surprised Us in Focus Groups with Voters About Jan. 6:  Patrick […]

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Wednesday, January 12th 2022 / Wednesday, January 12th 2022

MEDIA-OCRITIES OF THE WEEK The 5 Big Questions Shaping the Midterms: Lea Askarinam and Blake Hounshell, New York Times, Jan. 7, 2021“Taming inflation by November won’t be easy, economists say. . . [but]Inflation isn’t the only reason Mr. Biden is one of the most unpopular presidents in 70 years, with an average approval rating of just […]

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Tuesday, January 11th 2022

‘I’m Jewish and Black – Where Do I Fit In?‘:  Nadine Batchelor-Hunt, BBC, Dec. 27, 2021 The Beta Israel: The return of a lost tribe:  Stewart Weiss, Jerusalem Post, Dec. 16, 2021 How Israel’s Mossad Used a Fake Red Sea Diving Resort to Save a Lost Tribe of Ethiopian Jews: Itay Had, The Wrap, May […]

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Monday, January 10th 2022

What the Warming of Relations between Israel and UAE Mean for the Middle East:  Mira Patel, The Indian Express, Dec. 21, 2021 Abraham Accords is a Blessing to the Middle East and the Muslim World:  Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, The Blitz, Dec. 28, 2021 The Next Abraham Accords Will Be with Indonesia – Analysis:   Amotz […]

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Saturday, January 8th 2022

For the Sake of Heaven”: On Charedim and Religious Zionism:  Rabbi Aryeh Meir, Mosaic, Dec. 2021 The Haredi Moment Has Arrived: Eli Spitzer, Mosaic, Jan. 3, 2021 Abbaye and Rava:  How Two Babylonian Sages Started the Great Collective: Ari Bergmann, Tablet, Jan. 4, 2022 Pharoah’s Heart and the Freewill Question:  Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Jewish […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, January 7th 2022

Citation de la semaine:  “Ils ont essayé de nous tuer, nous avons gagné, mangeons” Boutade résumant le suc de chaque fête juive. Lapid : 2022 sera une année de campagnes anti-israéliennes à l’international LAZAR BERMAN  Times of israel ,3 janvier 2022,   Human Rights Watch et d’autres ONG ont une vocation exclusivement destructrice envers Israël. […]

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Thursday, January 6th 2022

Hezbollah and Lebanon’s Slow Death: Amatzia Baram, Middle East Forum, Dec. 6, 2021 Lebanon Faces Dim Future As Hezbollah Holds The Country Hostage:  Israel Kasnett, JNS, Jan. 4, 2022 Lebanon Stands at a Crossroad Between a Painful Revival and a Complete Submission to Iran:  Hanin Ghaddar, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Dec 7, 2021 […]

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Wednesday, January 5th 2022 / Thursday, January 6th 2022

MEDIA-OCRITIES OF THE WEEK One of the casualties of the extreme ideological divisions characterizing contemporary politics has been the decline of public respect for major media, recently estimated at under 40%, and sinking. This week’s unusual format of our “Media-ocrity” section expresses a striking fact. Over the New Year’s weekend, the Toronto Globe and Mail, […]

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Tuesday, January 4th 2022

The UN – Where Anti-Israel Prejudice Remains Supreme – Opinion:  Mark Regev, Jerusalem Post, Dec. 30, 2021 The Newest Anti-Israel UN Action Must Be Challenged – Now:  Anne Bayefsky, JCPA, Dec. 20, 2021 New Year’s Resolution? Abolish the UN Human Rights Council:  Melanie Philips, Israel National News, Dec. 31, 2021 The Escalating International War against […]