Analysis
Tuesday, May 21st 2024
Sheila Nazarian Newsweek, May 20, 2024 “Raisi’s unrelenting hostility towards Israel was a cornerstone of his foreign policy, reflecting the regime’s broader ideological commitment to the eradication of the world’s only Jewish state, with Raisi pledging to “destroy” the Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv.” In May 19, the president of Iran was killed […]
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Shay Khatiri Middle East Forum Observer, May 19, 2024 “Whatever happens next, however, Raisi’s “hard landing” will mark the first chapter in a game of musical chairs that will consume the Islamic Republic for months and will set the stage not only for the post-Raisi-era, but the post-Khamenei one as well.” State media report that […]
Lazar Berman Times of Israel, May 19, 2024 “Tehran has been displaying weakness for months.” Iran confirmed Monday morning that President Ebrahim Raisi, as well as Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, were dead following a helicopter crash the previous day. Though the deaths of two senior Iranian officials are a dramatic development at a time […]
Sune Engel Rasmussen WSJ, May 20, 2024 “The Iranian leadership never discusses potential successors in public, leaving the question of who will run the country after Khamenei dies a matter of speculation.” Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s death has dealt an unsettling blow to the country’s politics and raises questions regarding the succession of not just the […]
Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing
Monday, May 20th 2024 / Thursday, May 23rd 2024
Citation de la semaine: “Au cœur du deuil national, je sais, je crois de tout mon cœur qu’une nouvelle aube se lèvera sur tout Israël” Yitzhak Herzog, Président d’Israël, discours du Yom Hazikaron Table des Matières “Au cœur du deuil national, je sais, je crois de tout mon cœur qu’une nouvelle aube se lèvera […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, May 17th 2024 / Friday, May 17th 2024
SHABBAT READING Violating the Holiness of God’s Camp: The Story of the Blasphemer: Dr. Adrian Leveen, TheTorah.com, Mar. 9, 2017— Reading through Leviticus can be a tedious experience. Details of sacrifice and ritual blur together until suddenly a story unceremoniously disrupts the book’s formulaic language. To make matters worse, the episode is obscure and violent: […]
Friday, May 17th 2024
Jay Solomon Semafor, May 9, 2024 “Many of Mousavian’s dictums on the nuclear file would be adopted by the Iranian government after his close political ally, Hassan Rouhani, succeeded Ahmadinejad as president in 2013 and moved to negotiate directly with the Obama administration over the next two years.” As US-Iran relations thawed during the Obama administration, […]
Melanie Phillips JNS, May 16, 2024 “Even more astonishingly, Tabatabai runs the office overseeing hostage negotiations. Three weeks after the Oct. 7 pogrom, a reporter asked White House Spokesman John Kirby whether it was appropriate for Tabatabei to be in such a position given the claims made against her. Kirby stalled. Tabatabai is still there.” […]
Josh Rogan Washington Post, May 7, 2024 “When and how did the cyber actor compromise Mr. Malley’s account? Did the compromise of Mr. Malley’s device enable subsequent compromise of other senior officials at the State Department, National Security Council, or other agencies? How did the malign cyber actor utilize the information obtained from Mr. Malley?” […]
Efraim Inbar Jerusalem Post, May 15, 2024 “Hamas, an Iranian ally, has a good chance of taking over the state that the Americans are eager to establish within the framework of an anti-Iranian alliance. This state would be a Trojan horse.” The present American administration sees the war in Gaza as an opportunity to build […]
Thursday, May 16th 2024
The Eurovision Hurricane: Melanie Phillips, Substack, May 14, 2024 Why is Greta Wearing a Keffiyeh?: Mary Herrington, Unherd, May 15, 2024 The Unbearable Lightness of anti-Zionism: Shlomo Ben Ami, The Korea Times, May 12, 2024 The Rise of the ‘Never Bidens’: Eli Lake, The Free Press, May 14, 2024 For Further Reference: US Reportedly Plans to Send Additional $1B […]
Melanie Phillips Substack, May 14, 2024 “That popular triumph was surely why Thug and the whole satanic team burst into tears. It’s what children do. When thwarted they have a tantrum, stamp their foot and cry.” Thug, a “non-binary” individual who performed a pagan satanic routine as a kind of goblinesque Goth, had demanded […]
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