Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, October 4th 2023 / Tuesday, October 3rd 2023

 WEEKLY QUOTES “The wars of the Jews are always the ugliest. The Arabs won’t need to fight. The Jews, as usual, will destroy themselves.” — Yoni Netanyahu, late brother of P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu, to his parents in November 1973. (WSJ, Sept. 28, 2023)   “Our government won’t come within a kilometer of anything that even […]

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Wednesday, October 4th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

Des archives déclassifiées témoignent de fortes réserves sur les accords d’Oslo                                                                                  MICHAEL BACHNER                                […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023

MBS OPENS UP Bret Baier Interviews Saudi Prince: Israel Peace, 9/11 Ties, Iran Nuke Fears: ‘Cannot See Another Hiroshima’:  Peter Aitken, Fox News, Sept. 20, 2023 —  Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in his first interview with a major American news network since 2019 addressed controversies that have plagued his country and government over the […]

Analysis

Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenboge, Ambassador Hesham Youssef et al United States Institute of Peace, Sept. 28, 2023 “… there are major challenges to consummating such a deal between a triangle of actors whose interests don’t neatly align and, in key areas, starkly diverge.”   In recent months, a drumbeat has built around the U.S. effort to negotiate […]

Analysis

Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Emad Mekay IBA Middle East, no date   “The biggest game changer may be the almost certain ascent of the 31-year old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the Saudi throne.”   As countries in the Middle East move to re-position themselves to face new perceived threats, a major new alliance, and one previously considered […]

Analysis

Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Colonel Richard Kemp Ynet News, Sept. 30, 2023 “Economic benefits accruing from normalisation are high up on Saudi’s agenda, but its top priority is security and regime stability, upon which all else depends.”   Many commentators believe that official diplomatic recognition might flounder on the Palestinian issue, with Saudi demanding compromises that Israel cannot meet. […]

Analysis

Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Jerusalem Post staff et al Jerusalem Post, Sept. 30, 2023 “Saudi Arabia would not settle for less than binding assurances of US protection if it faced attack, such as the Sept. 14, 2019 missile strikes on its oil sites that rattled world markets.”   A ‘basic framework’ is in place for a peace deal between Israel […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, September 29th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023

________________________________________________________ SHABBAT READING   Is Kohelet’s Wisdom Vanity of Vanities?:  Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin, The Torah.com, Sept. 2023 — The Mishnah (m. Yadayim 3:5) makes clear that the inclusion of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) in the biblical Canon engendered more opposition than other biblical books.[1] Unfortunately, we don’t have a detailed record of the rabbinic discussions about Kohelet, pro and […]

Analysis

Friday, September 29th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

S.Y. Agnon Tablet, Sept. 25, 2015 “Rabban Gamliel purchased an etrog for one thousand zuz, and the sages did not even specify whether it was beautiful or not, and you set aside the choicest of etrogs on account of a few shillings?”   To witness how precious the mitzvah of Etrog is to the Jewish people […]

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Friday, September 29th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Aish, no date “How odd of God / to choose the Jews,” goes the famous rhyme, to which the answer is: “Not quite so odd: the Jews chose God.” They may have been, at times, fractious, rebellious, ungrateful and wayward. But they had the courage to travel, to move, to leave […]

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Friday, September 29th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Rossella Tercatin Jerusalem Post, Sept. 20, 2021 “Anyone, regardless of their social status, could join, immerse themselves in the pool, walk toward the Temple as the experience built up with tens if not hundreds of thousands of people gathered inside the city on this route.”   Some 2,000 years ago, as the festival of Sukkot approached, tens […]

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Friday, September 29th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Meir Y. Soloveichik Commentary, October 2023 “The cavern contained letters from Bar Kochba himself, including one written in advance of the Sukkot holiday, referencing the ritual of waving a lulav, a palm frond.”   Striking archeological discoveries are a constant in Israel, but they can still occasionally inspire wonder. That is the case with the uncovering of […]