Analysis

Thursday, June 29th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023

Simon Speakman Cordall Foreign Policy, June 2, 2023 “[Saied] deals in a very utopian vision. Anything that contradicts that—such as anti-Semitism or the recent attacks on the country’s undocumented black migrants—has to be rejected and denied.”   Tunisia has largely moved on from the May 9 killing of five people at the El Ghriba synagogue on the […]

Analysis

Thursday, June 29th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023

Daniel Brumberg Arab Center Washington, DC, June 22, 2023 “While unhappy with Saied’s clampdown, many professionals and business leaders are not ready to come out en masse to back the protesters.”   If this author has drawn one conclusion from his recent trip to Tunisia it is that rekindling the country’s democracy will require a […]

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Thursday, June 29th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023

Prigozhin’s Rebellion, Putin’s Fate, and Russia’s Future:  A Conversation with Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, June 24, 2023 Did ‘General Armageddon’ Help Plan the Russian Coup?:  Jim Geraghty, National Review, June 28, 2023 What Wagner’s Mutiny Means for Its Sprawling Business Empire: Simon Marks and Stephanie Baker, Bloomberg, June 27, 2023 China’s Ties to Putin, Kremlin […]

Analysis

Thursday, June 29th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023

Simon Marks and Stephanie Baker Bloomberg, June 27, 2023 “If the relationship between the Russian government and Wagner is broken, it means that their relationship in CAR and Mali is also broken,” said Kessy Martin Ekomo Soignet, who heads Peace and Development Watch, a Bangui-based think tank. “What is happening is destroying the narrative” that […]

Analysis

Thursday, June 29th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023

Foreign Affairs, June 24, 2023 “… look at his pithy and pointed vocabulary, his cadences, his ability to assume the role of tough guy, heart-on-the-sleeve Russian patriot, the truth teller who calls out the opportunists, the morons, and the thieves Putin has appointed.”   Stephen Kotkin is a preeminent historian of Russia and the author […]

Analysis

Thursday, June 29th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023

  Jim Geraghty National Review, June 28, 2023 “Brutal Maniac, Working with Other Brutal Maniac, Fails to Depose Chief Brutal Maniac.” An Unprepared Putin Many aspects of this weekend’s short-lived coup attempt in Russia remain mysterious, but the Wall Street Journal’s Bojan Pancevski, the paper’s Germany correspondent, sheds a little light on what Yevgeny Prigozhin wanted to […]

Analysis

Thursday, June 29th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023

Bill Gertz Washington Times, June 26, 2023 “Chinese state-controlled outlets revealed divergent views on the uprising as countries around the world struggled to make sense of the weekend’s chaos and Mr. Putin‘s hold on power.” China‘s leadership is closely watching recent events in Russia, concerned that a similar military revolt may erupt in Beijing, a senior White […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, June 28th 2023 / Wednesday, June 28th 2023

Citation de la semaine:  “La précipitation vient du Diable ; Dieu travaille lentement.” – Un proverbe persan. Table des Matières   Violences en Cisjordanie : le spectre iranien    i24NEWS, 23 juin 2023 Attentat déjoué à Chypre : les terroristes visaient “un centre Chabad ou un restaurant casher”    i24NEWS, 26 juin 2023 Position du Hezbollah : […]

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Wednesday, June 28th 2023 / Wednesday, June 28th 2023

                    MEDIA-OCRITY ______________________________   The Real Lesson from the Hunter Biden Saga:  Nicholas Kristof, NY Times, June 24, 2023 “Hunter Biden, who has written about his tangles with crack cocaine and alcohol, reached a plea agreement on tax charges a few days ago that left some Republicans sputtering, […]

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Tuesday, June 27th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023

What Does Israel Think? The Revolt in Russia: Q&A with Amb. Arkady Mil-Man, Israel’s Former Ambassador to Russia:  INSS Israel, YouTube, June 25, 2023 — Everything you wanted to know about the dramatic day in the Kremlin: Was there any foreshadowing? Is the event behind us? How does it affect Israel? And might the whole […]

Analysis

Tuesday, June 27th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023

Yaroslav Trofimov WSJ, June 26, 2023 “… none of the key players in the power struggle—beginning when Prigozhin seized the southern city of Rostov Saturday—has been strengthened by the ordeal that brought the country to the edge of civil war.”   A day after Wagner’s mutiny showed the unexpected fragility of President Vladimir Putin’s regime, all the main players in […]

Analysis

Tuesday, June 27th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023

Sergey Radchenko The Spectator, June 24, 2023   “Russia is in a state of a deep crisis, unlike anything it has experienced since 1991.”   Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, has taken control of the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, the headquarters of the Southern Miliary District, in the most serious […]