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Tuesday, August 31st 2021 / Tuesday, August 31st 2021

New Israeli Leader Backs Hard Line on Iran but Softer Tone With U.S.:  Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner, NY Times, Aug. 26, 2021 — Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, speaking days before his first meeting with President Biden as Israel’s new leader, said he would oppose American-led attempts to reinstate a lapsed nuclear agreement with Iran and continue Israel’s […]

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Monday, August 30th 2021 / Monday, August 30th 2021

Canadians Support Doing Everything Possible To Evacuate Afghans Who Helped In War, Poll Finds:  Tyler Dawson, National Post, Aug. 25, 2021 — Nearly seven in 10 Canadians believe Canada needs to do “everything it can” to relocate Afghans who helped Canada during the war in Afghanistan, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll.  Includes graph:  Also […]

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Friday, August 27th 2021 / Friday, August 27th 2021

Afghanistan Live Updates: Toll in Kabul Airport Bombing Rises to 170:  NY Times, Aug. 27, 2021 — After a blast that killed 13 U.S. troops, evacuation flights have resumed. With four days remaining until an Aug. 31 deadline for the U.S. withdrawal, the window for airlifts is narrowing. Who are ISIS-K? What To Know About […]

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Friday, August 27th 2021 / Friday, August 27th 2021

Citation de la semaine: “Pour un mariage qui dure, il faut tomber plusieurs fois amoureux, mais toujours de la même personne.” Anonyme Israël et les Emirats arabes unis officialisent leur coopération économique Catherine Dupeyron Les Echos, Jul 1, 2021 Les dessous économiques du rapprochement entre Israël et les Émirats arabes unis https://www.monde-economique.ch, 7 mars 2021 Les […]

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Thursday, August 26th 2021 / Thursday, August 26th 2021

A Hezbollah-Israel Conflict is Closer than Ever:  Brig. Gen. (Res.) Zvika Haimovich, JNS, Aug. 25, 2021 — Hezbollah fired 19 rockets at northern Israel on Aug. 6, and IDF artillery units returned fire into Southern Lebanon. The situation has been quiet since, but the idea that the escalation is “behind us” is deceptively misleading. https://isranet.org/analysis/analysis-hezbollahs-escalating-conflict-with-israel/ […]

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Wednesday, August 25th 2021 / Wednesday, August 25th 2021

Exclusive: Former SECDEF discusses Afghanistan with Military Times (Full Interview):  Defense News, Aug. 20, 2021 — Former acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller–also an Afghanistan vet and retired Greed Beret–talks to Military Times‘ Howard Altman about Afghanistan. MEDIA-OCRITIES OF THE WEEK Full Transcript Of ABC News‘ George Stephanopoulos’ Interview With President Joe Biden:  ABC News, Aug. 19, 2021)   “STEPHANOPOULOS: Let’s get […]

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Tuesday, August 24th 2021 / Tuesday, August 24th 2021

What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?:  WSJ, Aug. 21, 2021 –– We Americans like to deceive ourselves. We want to believe there is good war and bad war. World War II was a good war, varnished with the patina of history. Vietnam was a bad war, its reality overridden by popular cultural narratives. Once, in the […]

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Monday, August 23rd 2021 / Monday, August 23rd 2021

Internal State Department Cable Warned of Kabul Collapse:  Vivian Salama, WSJ, Aug. 19, 2021 — An internal State Department memo last month warned top agency officials of the potential collapse of Kabul soon after the U.S.’s Aug. 31 troop withdrawal deadline in Afghanistan, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the document. https://isranet.org/analysis/biden-afghanistan-and-the-implications-of-americas-great-power-decline/ https://isranet.org/analysis/miscue-after-miscue-u-s-exit-plan-unravels/ […]

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Friday, August 20th 2021 / Friday, August 20th 2021

Hans Morgenthau:  Henry A. Kissinger, Henry A. Kissinger.com, July 23, 1980 Memorial Remarks for Hans Morgenthau Hans Morgenthau was my teacher. And he was my friend. I must say that at the outset because so many obituaries have stressed his disagreement with policies with which I have become identified. We knew each other for a […]

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Friday, August 20th 2021 / Friday, August 20th 2021

Citation de la semaine:   Dans ce monde où tout change, il est aisé d’acquérir, mais conserver est presque un miracle.  Citation de Victor Cherbuliez ; Le roman d’une honnête femme (1865) La victoire talibane encourage tous les djihadistes du Moyen-Orient Dan Arkin Terre-des-juifs.com, 16 août 2021 Israël et la région testent de la détermination des Etats-Unis après […]

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Thursday, August 19th 2021 / Thursday, August 19th 2021

Biden Could Have Stopped the Taliban. He Chose Not To.:  Frederick W. Kagan, NY Times, Aug. 12, 2021 — The Taliban is sweeping across Afghanistan seizing more than a dozen provincial capitals in the past week, and is poised to seize more. _________________________________________________ https://isranet.org/analysis/afghanistans-unraveling-may-strike-another-blow-to-u-s-credibility/ https://isranet.org/analysis/iran-wants-taliban-to-embrace-diversity-of-afghanistan/ https://isranet.org/analysis/afghanistan-the-talibans-victory-will-test-india-and-peace-in-south-asia/ https://isranet.org/analysis/pakistan-divided-over-success-of-taliban-in-afghanistan/ For Further Reference: Press Briefing on Afghanistan by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg:  […]

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Wednesday, August 18th 2021

Longtime Montreal Rabbi Howard Joseph Passes Away:  Dan Verbin, Arutz Sheva, Aug. 17, 2021 — Rabbi Howard Joseph, who served as the spiritual leader of Montreal’s Spanish and Portuguese Congregation – the oldest synagogue in Canada – for four decades, has passed away. MEDIA-OCRITIES OF THE WEEK Biden Says Kabul’s Fall to Taliban ‘Not Inevitable’ as Fighting […]