Analysis
Monday, February 19th 2024
Bari Weiss, The Free Press, Feb. 16, 2024 Alexei Navalny had a choice. After he was poisoned by Moscow in August of 2020, after he emerged from a monthlong coma in a Berlin hospital, after he overcame the terrible effects of the nerve agent Novichok, which was developed by the Soviet Union, he could have stayed in exile in […]
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Ian Garner, Unherd, Feb. 16, 2024 When Alexei Navalny chose to board a flight to Moscow in January 2021, the opposition leader must have known his death was all but inevitable. After surviving one assassination attempt, and staring down the barrel of a long jail sentence handed down by Russia’s corrupt judiciary, Navalny chose […]
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Sunday, February 18th 2024 / Sunday, February 18th 2024
Citation de la semaine: « L’un des sauvetages les plus extraordinaires du 21e siècle » John Spencer, directeur de > l’Institut de la guerre moderne de West Point Table des Matières Tsahal sauve deux otages à Rafah au cours d’une incroyable opération nocturne: i24NEWS, 12 février 2024 Les médias sourds […]
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Friday, February 16th 2024
Gersonides’ Scientific Interpretation of the Tabernacle: Prof. Menachem Kellner, The Torah.com, Feb. 13, 2024 — Rabbi Levi ben Gershom (1288–1344),[1] known to the Jewish world by his acronym Ralbag and to the wider world as Gersonides, spent his fifty-six years in Provence.[2] While the names of his teachers remain unknown,[3] his erudition is staggering. Heavily influenced by Aristotelian philosophy, […]
Editorial WSJ, Feb. 14, 2024 “Hamas can’t be destroyed while it has access to the Egyptian border and control of the flow of aid at Rafah.” Ever notice how it is always deemed a humanitarian imperative to let Hamas survive? The diplomatic pressure on Israel to stay out of Rafah, Hamas’s final stronghold, has become enormous. […]
David Horovltz Times of Israel, Feb. 14, 2024 “One way or another, both Israel’s political and military chiefs are adamant, however, that the IDF will tackle Hamas in Rafah — the terror group’s last major largely intact stronghold, and the presumed hiding place of Hamas’s Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar and most of the hostages.” 1. […]
David Patrikarakos Unherd, Feb. 14, 2024 “Hatred and fear of Hamas runs deep in Egypt’s rulers.” A few years ago, while reporting in Gaza, I paid a visit to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Mohammed, my fixer, wasn’t keen. The guards there, he explained, were unfriendly. Sometimes they’d fire in the air if people […]
Ruth Marks Eglash Jewish Insider, Feb. 15, 2024 “The key to winning the war is for Israel to take over Rafah, destroy the remaining Hamas battalions and take control of the Egyptian border.” As Israel turns its attention to Gaza’s southernmost governate, Rafah, and what could be its final big battle in the war against […]
Thursday, February 15th 2024 / Thursday, February 15th 2024
COLUMBIA’S TURN House Committee to Investigate Columbia’s ‘Inadequate Response’ to Campus Antisemitism: Cathryn J. Prince, Times of Israel, Feb. 12, 2024 — Columbia University’s handling of antisemitism is now the subject of an official Congressional committee investigation. What Happens When You Teach at Columbia and Reject Hamas: Shai Davidai and Yardenne Greenspan, Tablet, Feb. 13, 2024 Columbia University’s […]
Thursday, February 15th 2024
Rebecca Massel Rolling Stone, Nov. 22, 2023 “So you must know a lot about settler colonialism. How do you feel about that?” THE TOPIC WAS justice and righteousness. I was sitting in my Contemporary Civilization class at Columbia University last month debating free will, when I received an email with the subject line “You are disgusting.” “I hope […]
Sheila Nazarian, Jerusalem Post, Feb. 12, 2024 “How is it possible that Nazi-style propaganda hangs in libraries and the administration refuses to intervene?” The congressional hearing at which the presidents of elite universities testified that calls for the genocide of Jews were dependent on context has become infamous. The list of grievances surrounding that notorious hearing is […]
Jonathan Barth Real Clear Education, Feb. 12, 2024 “… many faculty have their noses in the air, oblivious or unruffled by the reasons for their diminishing credibility.” University presidents have been in the limelight in recent months, more than at any other time in living memory. The additional scrutiny is amply warranted. They occupy powerful […]
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