Analysis
Friday, April 5th 2024
Gadi Taub Tablet, Apr. 3, 2024 “The PA, the White House maintains, is a crucial partner in the fight against terrorism—the same PA that, in reality, glorifies and incentivizes terrorism.” Lital Shemesh, a TV news anchor on Israel’s Channel 14, knows terror almost firsthand. Last August, her life was suddenly transformed. “I was at home […]
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Dror Eydar Israel Hayom, Mar. 29, 2024 “We will never belong to the family of nations, even if our contribution to humanity is priceless.” Israel has always stood on its own. In our long history, we have encountered good people and nations who helped us for a while, a century or two, until they disappeared […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, April 4th 2024 / Thursday, April 4th 2024
IN HIS OWN WORDS Schumer Has Crossed a Red Line Over Israel: Joe Lieberman, WSJ, Mar. 20, 2024 — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last Thursday crossed a political red line that had never before been breached by a leader of his stature and never should be again. LISTEN: Unorthodox: Checks and Balances, Ep. 134, Tablet, May 3, […]
Thursday, April 4th 2024
Alan M. Dershowitz WSJ, Mar. 28, 2024 “We are here to say that you can no longer simply count on our vote just because Jews traditionally have voted Democratic. We are here to say you must earn our vote.” Hours before his fatal fall on Tuesday, former Sen. Joseph Lieberman put his final touches on a statement […]
Gabby Deutsch Jewish Insider, Mar. 29, 2024 “The good news is that Sen. Lieberman will be the best boss you will have in your career and the bad news is that you will never have another boss as good as him.” As the first Jewish person on a major party presidential ticket, Joe […]
Rabbi Ethan Tucker/JTA Jerusalem Post, Apr. 3, 2024 “Nothing was done except for principle, sometimes to his political benefit, sometimes not. You knew where he stood, and based on where he stood, you knew how he would respond.” How do we live a life of principle and integrity, without closing ourselves off from […]
Cliff Smith Deseret News, Apr. 1, 2024 “Lieberman, unlike the rest, chose to expend his capital, against his own political self-interest, to win the war, long after the fateful choice to invade had been made.” A truly great leader is a person who, when in a position to affect important events, makes the […]
Wednesday, April 3rd 2024 / Wednesday, April 3rd 2024
Will Israel’s Government Collapse Due to the IDF Haredi Draft Crisis? – Analysis: Eliav Breuer, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 1, 2024 — The political ramifications of the High Court of Justice’s ruling on Thursday – that beginning on April 1 the state can no longer refrain from drafting haredi men into the IDF, and that state funding to […]
Wednesday, April 3rd 2024
Tzvi Joffre Unpacked, Mar. 31, 2024 “We recognize the fact that the state was established as a secular state, and we do not expect it to be religious. But as such, it cannot put our children into a melting pot that will turn them into secularists, just as the secularists will not agree to forcibly bring […]
Shalom Lipner Atlantic Council, Mar. 14, 2024 “Consenting to a wholesale Haredi exemption at the exact moment when hundreds of thousands of IDF regulars and reservists are being asked to assume additional burdens would be untenable.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “viability as leader” and “governing coalition” may both “be in jeopardy,” according to […]
Aryeh Erlich Ynet News, Feb. 26, 2024 “Any discussion on the subject can only take place after the other side accepts that the ultra-Orthodox public sees itself as committed to the mission of Torah study and holds that value above all else.” Since the October 7 massacre, the question of the participation of ultra-Orthodox […]
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, Apr. 1, 2024 “Hamas’s attack on October 7 spelled the end of judicial reform, meaning that the haredim would find it difficult to get the type of law they wanted giving wholesale deferments past the High Court of Justice.” Ultra-Orthodox men aged 18 to 26 who – as of April […]
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