Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, November 21st 2024

  FIGHTING LIES  WATCH:  Lawyer DESTROYS Woke Myths About Israel – Natasha Hausdorff:  Andrew Gold, Heretics, YouTube, Nov. 11, 2024 *** Why Trump’s Victory Is Cathartic for Millions of Us:  Michael Shellenberger, Real Clear Politics, Nov. 7, 2024 The Policing of Wrongspeak:  Melanie Phillips, Substack, Nov. 20, 2024 Albert Murray vs. the Lachrymose Conception of Afro-American History:  Warren […]

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Thursday, November 21st 2024

Michael Shellenberger Real Clear Politics, Nov. 7, 2024   “… if anybody really wants to understand why so many of us—even if we have our criticisms of Trump—feel relief and vindication at his victory, they need to consider that it has more to do with the repudiation of totalitarianism than with Trump as a person […]

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Thursday, November 21st 2024

Warren Zev Harvey The Omni-American Review, Vol. 1, 2024, no date “It is time to break with the lachrymose theory of [Jewish] woe, and to adopt a view more in accord with historic truth.”  He forcefully rejected as untrue the dominant view among scholars which saw Jewish history as nothing but a bleak succession of […]

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Thursday, November 21st 2024

Melanie Phillips Substack, Nov. 20, 2024   “… it was hatred of Jews; and hatred of Jews seems to be a non-hate thing altogether.”   According to The Times (UK £), doctors, vicars, social workers and other professionals have been investigated by the police for “non-crime hate incidents”. Oh — so too have nine year-olds. Eh? Say again?! […]

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Thursday, November 21st 2024

Gary Saul Morson Commentary, July/Aug. 2024   “Today we can ask: Why do so many cheer, or at least not object, when they witness mobs embracing the bloodthirsty and sadistic Hamas? Perhaps for the same reasons that young, pre-revolutionary Russians once celebrated terrorists who murdered innocent citizens?” Western intellectuals expected that novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once […]

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Wednesday, November 20th 2024

Erdogan Has Become the Enemy, and It’s Time to Deal with Him:  Nadav Shragai, Israel Hayom, Nov. 14, 2024 Turkish Foreign Minister Declares He Is ‘In a War’ With Israel:  Levent Kenez, Nordic Monitor, Nov. 19, 2024 Turkey Must Earn Trump’s Reconciliation:  Sinan Ciddi, Washington Examiner, Nov. 16, 2024 Is Turkey’s Military the World’s Latest Paper Tiger?:  Michael […]

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Wednesday, November 20th 2024

Levent Kenez Nordic Monitor, Nov. 19, 2024 “I am in a war. I do not have the luxury of showing my feelings.” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, during a November 15 interview broadcast on A Haber, a government-aligned television channel run by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s family, stated that he is “in a war” and […]

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Wednesday, November 20th 2024

Nadav Shragai Israel Hayom, Nov. 14, 2024 “Erdogan’s congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump on his victory should remind the American president of Turkey’s deceptive overtures to Israel just two years ago.”   Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan‘s support for Hamas and hostility toward Israel have reached a critical point, with Turkey providing sanctuary to Hamas operatives while […]

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Wednesday, November 20th 2024

Sinan Ciddi Washington Examiner, Nov. 16, 2024 “Erdogan’s championing of Hamas is entrenched. Turkey is the only country inside the NATO alliance and, certainly, the only U.S. ally that openly embraces Hamas as a group of “resistance fighters.”” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan feels he has reason to be optimistic. He was bracing for the election of Vice President Kamala […]

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Wednesday, November 20th 2024

Michael Rubin Middle East Forum, Nov. 4, 2024 “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took a formidable military and sought to remake it in his own image.” A video circulating on Telegram and other social media suggests North Korean Special Forces dispatched to fight Ukraine on Russia’s behalf have seen their first combat. The video purports to interview the single North Korean […]

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Tuesday, November 19th 2024

SERIOUS CHANGES COMING Trump Team Preparing Plans to Topple Iran Regime, Israeli Sources Say:  Shirit Avitan Cohen, Israel Hayom, Nov. 14, 2024 — High-level Israeli sources have revealed to Israel Hayom that the Trump circle is formulating strategic plans targeting Iran’s current regime, marking a potential dramatic shift in US policy toward Tehran.    Netanyahu Says Biden’s Counsel Throughout the War […]

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Tuesday, November 19th 2024

Ruthie Blum JNS, Nov. 18, 2024 “Thomas-Greenfield, like her boss Blinken and the rest of the outgoing administration, has been focused on currying favour with the world’s malign actors.” Whether the Biden administration is planning a last hurrah for the Jewish state at the United Nations—a lame-duck good riddance, à la Barack Obama, in the […]