Isranet Daily Briefing

Isranet Daily Briefing

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 […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

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 […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

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 […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

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 […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

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 […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

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 […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

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 […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

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 […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, December 13th 2024

“The reality is that we are witnessing the complete and total unraveling of the disastrous foreign policy that began under Obama and was picked up again by Biden, the perverse effect of which was to strengthen both Iran and Russia.” – Niall Ferguson SHABBAT READING: Marat Kila’s Notes on Esau in a Supercommentary on Rashi:  […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, December 12th 2024

“I’m managing a country and leading the State of Israel and the Israeli military at war. … I thought and still think that both things can be done in parallel… I believed that in the overall scheme of things, a balance could be found between the needs of the trial, which I recognize, and the […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, December 11th 2024

“Syria provided so many advantages at a low cost.  Losing Syria would be a big strategic defeat that would reverberate beyond the Middle East. It would have global repercussions.” – Anna Borshchevskaya **** Retreat of Syrian Forces Threatens ‘Saigon Moment’ for Russia: Sune Engel Rasmussen and Thomas Grove, WSJ, Dec. 7, 2024 Putin’s Collapsing Middle […]