Isranet Daily Briefing

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, June 3rd 2021 / Friday, June 4th 2021

The Realignment:  Michael Doran and Tony Badran, Tablet, May 10, 2021 On Sunday, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan phoned his Israeli counterpart and turned back the hands of time. According to the American readout of the conversation, Sullivan called “to express the United States’ serious concerns” about two things: the pending eviction, by court order, of a […]

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Wednesday, June 2nd 2021 / Friday, June 4th 2021

MEDIA-OCRITIES OF THE WEEK ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How Long Did Israel Think Palestinians Would Put Up With Their Current Situation?:  Jon Allen, The Globe and Mail, May 18, 2021An example of the widespread media use of the “Yes, but…” approach to Israel-Arab conflict (“Yes, both parties are to blame, but the real culprit isn’t the Jew-hating Hamas terrorists, it’s […]

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Tuesday, June 1st 2021 / Friday, June 4th 2021

  When the Mob Came for the Jews of Baghdad Joseph Samuels WSJ, May 28, 2021 “The Jewish community bore the brunt of this explosive combination of Arab nationalism, Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitism.” I was 10 when mobs attacked the Jewish community of Baghdad, my community, with cruel and unimaginable violence. Rioters maimed, raped, killed […]

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Monday, May 31st 2021 / Friday, June 4th 2021

Lapid’s Great Gamble: Once The Government Is In Place, The Haredim Will Join:  Haviv Rettig Gur, Times of Israel, May 31, 2021 “Nothing unites deep-right Yamina with fervently progressive Meretz, nothing could bring ex-Likud hawk Gideon Sa’ar to make common cause with Islamic Movement official Mansour Abbas, except the desire across wide swaths of the Israeli […]

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Friday, May 28th 2021 / Monday, May 31st 2021

Avi Benlolo: There Can Be No Excuse For Terrorism. It’s That Simple:  Avi Benlolo:  National Post, May 14, 2021 Let’s put everything on the table: there is no equivalence between Hamas and Israel. The latter is a nation just like any other and should be treated with the respect and dignity it deserves. The former […]

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Friday, May 28th 2021

Citation de la Semaine:  Celui qui est fin stratège porte une armée dans son esprit. ~ Sagesse chinoise __________________________________________________________________________ B. Netanyahou et B. Gantz affirment que Tsahal a “obtenu des résultats qu’aucune armée au monde n’a jamais obtenus” i24NEWS, 21 mai 2021 Le Hamas a créé l’illusion – dans le monde entier – qu’Israël était l’agresseur […]

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Thursday, May 27th 2021 / Sunday, May 30th 2021

Elite anti-Semitism at the Boston Globe:  Charles Lipson, The Spectator, May 19, 2021 –– Some people think the vicious attacks on Jews happen only in Times Square or in Los Angeles restaurants. Not so. They think the apologists for these crimes are limited to the Squad and extreme leftists, some of whom actually tweeted it […]

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Wednesday, May 26th 2021 / Thursday, May 27th 2021

An Open Letter to Canada: It Is Starting to be Unsafe to be a Canadian Jew:  Michael Mostyn, National Post, May 25. 2021 — Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, premiers, mayors, university presidents and all Canadians of good conscience.   Are You Afraid to Publicly Display Jewish Identifiers (Yarmulke, Hebrew Writing) in New York or the US?:  Jewish Press, […]

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Tuesday, May 25th 2021 / Sunday, May 30th 2021

The New Furies of the Oldest Hatred:  Peter Savotnik, Bari Weiss, Substack, May 21, 2021 “The furies have been unleashed. They were everywhere you looked these past two weeks, though you won’t read about them much in the papers.” We saw them on Thursday, when pro-Palestinian protesters threw an explosive device into a crowd of Jews in […]

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Friday, May 21st 2021 / Friday, May 21st 2021

Why Hamas (Most Of All) And Netanyahu (For Now) Are The Winners Of This Mini-War:  Avi Issacharoff, Times of Israel, May 21, 2021 “The only uncertain factor is how long this ceasefire will hold. And given the results of this mini-war, it seems unlikely it will last five months, never mind the five years some […]

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Thursday, May 20th 2021 / Friday, May 21st 2021

I’m Fed Up:  Blake Ezra, Times of Israel, May 16, 2021 — I’m fed up. I don’t want to write this, but I’m fed up. I’m fed up, and I’ve seen it all before. Associated Press, Hamas Propagandists:  David Harsanyi, National Review, May 17, 2021 “Pruitt knowingly puts journalists at risk every day he sends […]

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Wednesday, May 19th 2021 / Wednesday, May 19th 2021

MEDIA-OCRITIES OF THE WEEK   The GOP’s Post-Trump Trauma:  Peggy Noonan, WSJ, May 13, 2021“…in running in fear from [Trump], they are running from a corpse. Because the insurrection changed everything, everything. They say, ‘Trump got 74 million votes,” but many Republicans held their noses and voted for him, … it’s not true 74 million […]