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Monday, January 22nd 2024
Bret Stephens NY Times, Jan. 16, 2024 “If Israel were trying to commit genocide, it wouldn’t be putting its soldiers at risk or allowing humanitarian relief to arrive from Egypt or withdrawing many of its forces from Gaza. It would simply be killing Palestinians everywhere, in vastly greater numbers, as Germans killed Jews or Hutus […]
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Yehudah Mirsky Unherd, Jan. 17, 2024 “Hypocrisy is at work here, of course, but that is almost trivially beside the point. Genocide is more than a justifiably hideous characterisation: as a legal category, as rhetoric and policy framing, it is a doomsday weapon of epic proportions. It is, in its heightening ignominy to the nth […]
Roi Yanovsky Ynet News, Jan. 15, 2024 “Military infrastructure can be found in every single neighborhood we were in. Weapons, tunnels, explosive charges and launchpads are all conveniently located inside residential buildings, some of which are equipped with holes in the walls so the transition between the various structures is seamless.” After 100 days in […]
Netael Bandel Israel Hayom, Jan. 16, 2024 “… not only is there no basis for a decision establishing suspicion of genocide, but in practical terms, it actually undermines the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. In essence, it turns the convention into a certificate of immunity for terrorist organizations […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Sunday, January 21st 2024
SHABBAT READING The March of Folly: פרשת בא: BO • 5771, 5784, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — There is a fascinating moment in the unfolding story of the plagues that should make us stop and take notice. At the opening of this week’s parsha, seven plagues have now struck Egypt. The people are suffering. Several times Pharaoh seems to soften, only […]
Friday, January 19th 2024
Vivian Yee and Farnaz Fassihi NY Times, Jan. 17, 2024 “But this week, Iran acted on its own and announced its actions, publicly framing the missile strikes as vengeance.” After hitting targets in neighboring Pakistan, Iraq and Syria with missiles, Iran talked tough on Wednesday, playing up — to friends and foes alike — not only its […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Jan. 17, 2024 “The Al-Ain report could reflect new serious information about the Houthis and their positioning of missiles and drones. It could also reflect the wider regional concerns in the Gulf about the Houthis choosing to escalate.” The Houthis may be repositioning some of their missiles and drones after […]
J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, Jan. 17, 2024 “The big information point — if validated in the upcoming days — is where the Houthi assets are being moved.” … To briefly introduce the topic, the political condition of Yemen – reduced as it often is to warring factions, with no central government in control – […]
Saeed Shah and Benoit Faucon WSJ, Jan. 16, 2024 “Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps took the rare step on Monday of launching strikes out of Iran into Syria, despite having its own military presence there.” Iran hit a jihadist group in Pakistan with a missile and drone strike Tuesday, according to Iranian state media, […]
Thursday, January 18th 2024
ILLUSIONS SHATTERED LISTEN: The Whitewashing of Hamas: The Brendan O’Neill Show, Spiked, Jan. 17, 2024 — Jake Wallis Simons – editor of the Jewish Chronicle – returns for this episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Jake and Brendan discuss the denial of Hamas’s crimes, the double standards of the ‘anti-Zionists’, and why Israelophobia is just anti-Semitism rebranded. Sadly, The War […]
Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, January 18th 2024 / Friday, January 26th 2024
Citation de la semaine: « La vérité est en marche et rien ne l’arrêtera » Émile Zola (lors de l’Affaire Dreyfus) ________________________________________________________________________ Table des Matières ________________________________________________________________________ Shmuel […]
Thursday, January 18th 2024 / Wednesday, January 17th 2024
Lucas Webber and Peter Smith Unherd, Jan. 15, 2024 “It wasn’t until October 7 that this Islamist impetus really burst into the open, with ISIS suddenly finding itself on fertile soil for cultivating new followers in the West.” While the public’s focus on non-state actor threats is shifting to military action against the Houthis, a […]
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