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Monday, January 29th 2024

IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE ICJ Asks Israel to Prevent Genocide, Doesn’t Order End To Gaza War:  Rina Bassist and Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, Jan. 26, 2024 — The International Court of Justice in the Hague (ICJ) issued Friday a provisional order that Israel must refrain from acts that could possibly lead to genocide but fell short […]

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Monday, January 29th 2024

Jess Bravin WSJ, Jan. 26, 2024 “Hamas, which the U.S. and European Union classify as a terrorist organization, said the ICJ decision “opens the door to holding the enemy’s leaders accountable for these crimes before the International Criminal Court and reaffirms the rights of our Palestinian people to self-determination, the establishment of their independent state, […]

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Monday, January 29th 2024

Ido Rosenzweig Times of Israel, Jan. 27, 2024 “… one cannot underestimate the damage caused to the country by the outrageous statements of politicians, commentators, public figures, and soldiers. The ICJ made it clear that these statements played a significant role in the decision to grant provisional measures because these statements help establish the possibility […]

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Monday, January 29th 2024

Peter Berkowitz Real Clear Politics, Jan. 25, 2024 “South Africa’s warping of facts and law, according to Becker, comprised several elements. South Africa delegitimized Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, assigned virtually all blame for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Israel, suppressed Hamas’ responsibility for Gaza poverty, and obscured the Israeli victims’ humanity.” Yesterday, […]

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Monday, January 29th 2024

Melanie Phillips Substack, Jan. 12, 2024 “All the UN bodies and its institutions have become weapons against Israel in the hands of Hamas terrorists. How is it possible that the Convention for the Prevention of Genocide, which was adopted after the Holocaust, is currently being used in the UN against the Jewish state, while it […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Sunday, January 28th 2024 / Friday, January 26th 2024

Citation De la Semaine: La grande science est donc de faire vouloir à l’ennemi tout ce que vous voulez qu’il fasse et de lui fournir, sans qu’il s’en aperçoive, tous les moyens de vous seconder. Sun Tzu- L’Art de la Guerre                  Table des Matières L’histoire de quelques-uns […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, January 26th 2024 / Friday, January 26th 2024

SHABBAT READING   The Song at the Sea: What Does It Celebrate?:  Prof. Baruch J. Schwartz, The Torah.com, Apr. 18, 2014 — The rabbinic reconstruction of the chronology of the events of the Exodus, succinctly summarized by Rashi in his commentary on Exodus 14:5,[1] places the miraculous rescue of the fleeing Israelites at the Red Sea on the […]

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Friday, January 26th 2024

Prof. David Patterson ISGAP, Oct. 17, 2023   “What Hamas has in common with Hitler is not merely the desire to exterminate the Jews.  No, it is this: exterminationist Jew hatred forms a definitive, foundational basis for their entire worldview.”   In recent days the word Hamas has been all over the media.  Protesters around the world have come […]

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Friday, January 26th 2024

Alvin H. Rosenfeld Tablet, Jan. 15, 2024   “Swastikas are back, and the hatred they symbolize is more vocal, more visual, and more pervasive than it has been for decades.”    On Christmas Day, 1959, a newly rededicated synagogue in Cologne, Germany, was prominently defaced with swastikas. Immediately thereafter, a “swastika epidemic” broke out in over […]

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Friday, January 26th 2024

Dave Gordon JNS, Jan. 12, 2024   “Our community is not powerless. Our community is strong. Our community is resilient. Our community has never been more united in its resolve to support one another and to support our Jewish state as it is right now. As truly difficult and challenging as the last few months […]

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Thursday, January 25th 2024

  Frederick Krantz Israzine, Jan. 26, 2024 “… Is the grim truth not rather that a second holocaust has been made more likely, not less likely, by the fact of the first? For there are few signs anywhere of that radical repentance, which alone could rid the world of Hitler’s shadow.” In the light of […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, January 25th 2024 / Thursday, January 25th 2024

TREES CELEBRATED A Tu BiShvat Guide for the Perplexed, 2019:  Yoram Ettinger, Algemeiner, Jan. 20. 2019 –– 1. The Jewish Arbor Day, Tu Bishvat (ט”ו בשבט) highlights human gratitude for the creation of fruit-bearing trees. Jewish tradition stipulates a one-sentence blessing before consuming any fruit. ______________________________________________________________________________ “NORMALIZE THE MASSACRES” London Pro-Hamas Rally Proves that the Absurd Is […]