Isranet Daily Briefing

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, August 4th 2021 / Wednesday, August 4th 2021

MEDIA-OCRITY OF THE WEEK Is There Really Such A Thing As ‘The American People’?:  Mark Kingwell, Globe and Mail, July 31, 2021“[Re] the expression ‘the American people’. If you watch the daily news, the repeated invocation of this term becomes mesmerizing. It clearly has some consonance with the likewise loaded ideological term ‘the American dream’. The definite article is […]

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Tuesday, August 3rd 2021

Deadly Attack On Israel-Linked Tanker Is Major Escalation – Analysis:  Seth J. Frantzman, Jerusalem Report, July 31, 2021 — The attack on the tanker Mercer Street off the coast of Oman is a major escalation in an ongoing series of attacks on shipping that have increased this year. The ship is reportedly operated by Zodiac Maritime and […]

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Monday, August 2nd 2021 / Monday, August 2nd 2021

https://isranet.org/analysis/is-lebanon-on-the-verge-of-a-military-coup/ https://isranet.org/analysis/will-lebanon-fall-into-the-hands-of-iran/ https://isranet.org/analysis/lebanons-collapse-and-the-significance-for-israel/ https://isranet.org/analysis/lebanon-is-dying-food-and-fuel-shortages-show-how-far-and-fast-the-country-has-fallen/ For Further Reference: IDF: Hezbollah Storing Weapons 25 Meters From A School:  Anna Ahronheim, Jerusalem Post, July 14, 2021 — The Israeli military on Wednesday shared intelligence of a possible target belonging to Hezbollah in the southern Lebanese village of Ebba in the Nabatieh Governorate. Lebanon: Anti-government Protests And Strikes Likely To Continue […]

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Friday, July 30th 2021 / Friday, July 30th 2021

https://isranet.org/analysis/cubas-communist-authorities-have-long-feared-change-street-protests-show-the-risk-of-resisting-it/ https://isranet.org/analysis/the-geopolitics-of-cuba-unrest/ https://isranet.org/analysis/the-real-cuba-isnt-a-potemkin-airbnb/ https://isranet.org/analysis/how-canadian-jews-helped-create-a-jewish-spiritual-renaissance-in-castros-cuba/ For Further Reference: Cuban Jews Step Up For Their Patria:  Gabby Deutch, Jewish Insider, July 22, 2021 — “Patria y Vida” — “homeland and life” — is the chant that has animated thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Cuba, angry over economic shortages and rising COVID-19 deaths, over the past week and a half.  […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, July 30th 2021 / Friday, July 30th 2021

Citation de la semaine: La tendance la plus profonde de toute activité humaine est la marche vers l’équilibre. ~ Jean Piaget   Cent ans d’un royaume improbable : la stabilité à tout prix – II Soulayma MARDAM BEY, lorientlejour.com,le 12 avril 2021 Biden promet de «renforcer» la coopération avec la Jordanie Le Figaro avec AFP, 19/07/2021 Abdallah […]

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Thursday, July 29th 2021 / Thursday, July 29th 2021

Who is an anti-Semitic?:   Yair Lapid, Facebook July 14, 2021 From the things I carried today in the context of the seventh meeting of the Global Forum to fight anti-Semitism: It’s time we start telling the right story about the anti-Semites. It’s time we tell the world what we’re facing. The anti-Semites were not only […]

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Wednesday, July 28th 2021 / Wednesday, July 28th 2021

MEDIA-OCRITY OF THE WEEK 52 Years After The Moon Landing, Republicans Reject Science And America Is Unraveling:   Will Bunch, The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 18, 2021“…this is not 1969 [year of the first moon landing]. There is, we are finding out rather painfully, a Democratic and a Republican way to do vaccines. In [Republican] Mountain Home, Ark.—in a state where Trump got […]

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Tuesday, July 27th 2021 / Tuesday, July 27th 2021

https://isranet.org/analysis/the-steele-dossier-was-a-case-study-in-how-reporters-get-manipulated/ https://isranet.org/analysis/the-hunter-biden-laptop-is-real/ https://isranet.org/analysis/substack-last-best-hope-for-free-speech/ https://isranet.org/analysis/twenty-ways-the-western-media-attacks-israel/ For Further Reference: New York Times Opinion Writer Was Paid Iranian Propagandist, Prosecutor Says:  Ira Stoll, July 22, 2021 — A frequent New York Times opinion writer facing criminal charges for allegedly being a paid foreign agent of the Iranian government appeared virtually this month before the federal judge hearing the case, as […]

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Monday, July 26th 2021 / Monday, July 26th 2021

A Hatred That Dwells Alone? Antisemitism Debate Cuts To Heart Of Zionist Vision:  Haviv Rettig Gur, Times of Israel, July 26, 2021 — On July 14, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid suggested in a speech that antisemitism was not as special as many Jews believe, but rather is but one bigotry among many in the rich and variegated […]

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Friday, July 23rd 2021 / Friday, July 23rd 2021

Philip Roth at 70: Interview with David Remnick:  Apr. 11, 2015 https://isranet.org/analysis/the-plot-against-america-by-philip-roth/ https://isranet.org/analysis/appreciation-philip-roth/ https://isranet.org/analysis/roth-v-roth-v-roth/ https://isranet.org/analysis/philip-roth-the-art-of-fiction-no-84/ For Further Reference: An Open Letter to Wikipedia:  Philip Roth, The New Yorker, Sept. 6, 2012 — Dear Wikipedia, I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my novel “The Human Stain.” […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, July 23rd 2021

Citation de la semaine: “Le propre de la vérité, c’est de manquer de complaisance.” Victor Hugo Antoine Basbous: «Joe Biden rompt avec la stratégie de Donald Trump en Iran» Antoine Basbous FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE, 20/07/2021 Nucléaire iranien: l’Agence internationale de l’énergie atomique inquiète (Isabelle Lasserre – Le Figaro) Isabelle Lasserre, ELNetwork.fr, Nucléaire : le désengagement spectaculaire de l’Iran […]

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Thursday, July 22nd 2021 / Thursday, July 22nd 2021

https://isranet.org/analysis/if-war-comes-will-the-u-s-navy-be-prepared/ https://isranet.org/analysis/why-the-u-s-navy-is-in-dire-straits/ https://isranet.org/analysis/take-the-drone-rorschach-test/ https://isranet.org/analysis/when-it-comes-to-the-idf-its-not-size-that-matters/ For Further Reference: UK to Permanently Deploy Two Warships In Asia Pacific:  Al Jazeera, July 21, 2021 — Britain has announced that it will permanently deploy two warships in Asian waters after its Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier and escort ships sail to Japan in September through seas where China is vying for influence […]