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Prisoner Deal Could Smooth Effort to Contain Iran’s Nuclear Program

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Michael Crowley, Ronen Bergman and Farnaz Fassihi NY Times, Aug. 10, 2023 “The Islamic Republic’s enmity toward the United States is central to its identity as a revolutionary power.  It needs America as an adversary for its own internal legitimacy. It is willing to cut tactical deals on hostages and nukes when it behooves them […]

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US-Iran Prisoner Swap Said to Be Part of Larger Deal That Addresses Nuclear Program

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TOI staff Times of Israel, Aug. 11, 2023 “We will continue to enforce all of our sanctions. We will continue to push back resolutely against Iran’s destabilizing activities in the region and beyond.  None of these efforts take away from that.”   Israeli officials said a prisoner exchange deal announced Thursday between the US and […]

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Daily Briefing: A DEEPER DIVE INTO DAVID J. GARROW’S ‘RISING STAR’

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SHABBAT READING   Of Lambs and Lambasting: The Message in Nathan’s Parable to David:  Dr. Yael Landman, The Torah.com,  Aug. 3, 2023  — One spring, King David sends his soldiers to besiege the Ammonites, but he remains in Jerusalem (2 Sam 11:1).[1] While walking on his roof one afternoon, he spies Bathsheba bathing, and despite learning […]

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Obama’s Fraudulent Legacy Is Being Exposed, and It’s on the Wrong Side of History

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Mark Hemingway The Federalist, Aug. 9, 2023 “‘Hey, why don’t you sell that old house and buy three or four huge mansions in Martha’s Vineyard and Hawaii and Washington, D.C., and rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in sweetheart deals with big corporations while you’re vacationing on rich people’s yachts? He’d probably sock you […]

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Rising Star’ Offers A Severe but Insightful Assessment of Barack Obama

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‘ Erik Spanberg The Christian Science  Monitor,  May 25, 2017 “The man who built his support on community outreach and taking back the country from well-heeled corporate interests would, Garrow writes, in the span of a few years go from boasting that 90% of his donations were for $100 or less to beaming alongside Beyoncé […]

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U.S. President Barack Obama's official photograph in the Oval Office on 6 December 2012.- wikipedia

Analysis

Who’s the Real Barack Obama? Things Are Finally Becoming Clearer

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Victoria Taft PJ Media, Aug. 10, 2023 “Throughout the years, Obama is alleged to have been a real-life Manchurian candidate, a member of the Down Low Club at Reverend Wright’s church, a cocaine lover, a purveyor of male prostitutes, a man placed in an arranged marriage by his church, and born in Kenya, among other […]

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Analysis

The Real Obama: An Interview with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer David J. Garrow

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Cody Delistraty Longreads, May 9, 2017 “I believe Barack’s time in Springfield, essentially eight years as a state legislator, is phenomenally important and absolutely essential to understanding the sort of politician he became.”   There are few subjects in contemporary history who deserve a 1,400-page biography, but Barack Obama’s ascendance to the presidency merits every […]

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Daily Briefing: HEZBOLLAH INCREASES ITS PROVOCATIONS ON ISRAEL’S NORTHERN BORDER

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  HEZBOLLAH DARING STEPS Israel Security Briefing #7 July 2023:  IDSF, Israel Defense & Security Forum— Israel’s Strategic Dilemma with Hezbollah | Jenin Operation Acclaimed as a Success | Internal Rift Threatens the IDF’s Readiness, Closely Monitored by Iran ________________________________________________________ Hezbollah Has Reasons for Its Current Pugnacity, Beyond Internal Israeli Fighting:  Lazar Berman, Times of […]

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Analysis

Lebanon’s Presidential Standstill

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GIS, July 17, 2023 “Hezbollah pays its fighters twice as much as the LAF; it is the incubator of a Shia counter-society, developing its own administration, banks, shops, medical units and military forces.” Lebanon has been looking for a successor to President Michel Aoun since his term expired in 2022. No fewer than 12 parliamentary sessions have been […]

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For the first time since the end of the 2006 conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon, several explosive devices camouflaged as rocks planted on the international border with Lebanon in the area of Avivim, were uncovered by IDF forces.- Wikipedia

Analysis

The Dilemma of a Preventive Israeli Strike on Hezbollah

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Yaakov Lappin JNS, Aug. 2, 2023 “It is important to view the actions of Hezbollah in a wider, regional context, according to Shay. “Iran is at the core of [Hezbollah’s] regional activities, and these activities also involve Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza. Israel is not interested in a clash that turns regional. This […]

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Hassan Nasrallah during a discussion with officials from supreme leader of Iran Ali Khamenei’s office. - Wikipedia

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In Lebanon, Israel and America are on Opposite Sides

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Tony Badran Tablet, Aug. 1, 2023 “As it turned out, the maritime deal did not, in fact, enhance Israel’s security, as U.S. negotiator Amos Hochstein and his echo chamber validators in the U.S. and Israeli press all claimed it would. In reality Israel’s security and deterrence has badly deteriorated on multiple fronts since the Biden administration came […]

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Hezbollah Has Reasons for Its Current Pugnacity, Beyond Internal Israeli Fighting

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Lazar Berman Times of Israel, Aug. 7, 2023 “They think that what is happening gives an indication of a kind of weakness inside Israel, and they are wrong.  These demonstrations express the strength and cohesion of the Israeli state. They should know that the Jewish people have always been distinguished by their internal debates, but in the […]

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