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Tuesday, October 10th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Noah Rothman National Review, Oct. 7, 2023 “Israel does not have to learn to live with Hamas.”   As of this writing, 90 Israelis are confirmed dead as a result of the invasion of Southern Israel by the Iran-backed terrorist organization, Hamas. According to the Israeli Health Ministry, over 900 more Israelis are wounded and hospitalized, many […]

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Tuesday, October 10th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Victor Davis Hanson X, Oct. 8, 2023 “Americans should not listen to what Biden’s team now conveniently says, but instead to what it actually does in the upcoming weeks when it is under fire by its base in the new woke Democratic Party, as the Israelis have to go into Gaza, end this toxic death […]

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Tuesday, October 10th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Haviv Rettig Gur Times of Israel, Oct. 8, 2023 “Hamas gunmen didn’t get “carried away,” as some explained. They were the essence of the whole enterprise. They were Hamas’s basic message to Israelis: That they weren’t being killed and kidnapped just for tactical advantage in the struggle for Palestinian independence, but rather were being humiliated […]

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Tuesday, October 10th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Yaakov Lappin JNS, Oct. 9, 2023 “To put things in perspective, “Operation Defensive Shield,” launched by Israel in Judea and Samaria in 2002 following a murderous wave of Palestinian suicide bombings and shootings, took some three years to complete.”   The mass-murder rampage conducted by Hamas death squads on southern communities in Gaza on Saturday […]

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Monday, October 9th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Alex Traiman JNS, Oct. 7, 2023 “The security failings raise the question of whether the Simchat Torah attack will be Prime Minister Netanyahu’s “Golda moment.”” Many questions and few answers abound as Israel has suffered its worst homefront attack, and perhaps its worst security and intelligence failure in the past fifty years.  Instead of peacefully […]

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Monday, October 9th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Lilach Shoval Israel Hayom, Oct. 9, 2023 “… when the intelligence did not give any warning, even not a hint, the IDF top brass did not train the troops, did not order the deployment of Iron Domes, and this most serious incident caught most of the senior IDF commanders at home.” The Simchat Torah attack […]

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Monday, October 9th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Jonathan Silver Mosaic Magazine, Oct. 9, 2023   “American Jews in particular have been tempted to historicize evil, and think that it belonged to an earlier, darker age. But the bruised corpses of Jewish women and men instantly and simultaneously displayed on phones around the world is a desecration that cannot be unseen.”   The […]

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Monday, October 9th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Summer Said, Benit Faucan and Stephen Kalin WSJ, Oct. 8, 2023 “We know that there were meetings in Syria and in Lebanon with other leaders of the terror armies that surround Israel so obviously it’s easy to understand that they tried to coordinate. The proxies of Iran in our region, tried to be coordinated as […]

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Friday, October 6th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023

SHABBAT READING   What is Shemini Atzeret?: Rabbi Paul Steinberg, My Jewish Learning, no date — Although Hoshanah Rabbah may technically be the “last day” of Sukkot, the Rabbis decided to treat Shemini Atzeret (and Simchat Torah) as a part of Sukkot , because its significance is unequivocally informed by Sukkot itself. _______________________________________________________   Remembering the Yom Kippur War in a […]

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Friday, October 6th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Ronen Bergman, Or Fialkov Ynet News, Sept. 15, 2023   “In case of a system failure or a problem with the plane, you cannot return to base. You have one option: to fly to an open area at a remote location. Then, the pilot must make sure the plane is abandoned or the system is destroyed […]

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Friday, October 6th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Moshe Phillips Israel National News, Sept. 28, 2023 “Having prevented Israel from striking first, Kissinger then exploited Israel’s suffering in the early days of the war in order to advance his strategy.” There have been numerous articles, seminars, and lectures in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Yet, somehow, they […]

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Friday, October 6th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Michael Doran Mosaic Magazine, Oct. 2, 2023 “How could it be that these Egyptians were crossing the canal right in our faces? How was it that they were moving forward, and we were defeated?””   History records Israel’s triumph in 1967 as the Six-Day War, but the key operations that clinched the victory took closer to six hours than […]