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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, June 25, 2023 “Such military aid could include new cyber weapons, the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system, new advanced Russian aircraft or even advances in the nuclear weapons field.” For the moment, the world-shaking potential coup by the Russian Wagner Group against Russian President Vladimir Putin has ended. Putting aside whether Wagner […]
Aris Roussinos UnHerd, June 26, 2023 “The tensions Putin had permitted to escalate within his war cabinet — whether as intentional policy or sheer incompetence must remain a matter of speculation — now looked to be spiralling out of control.” Waking up on Saturday morning, Putin must have wished he’d kept catering in-house. Only the day before, […]
Friday, June 23rd 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
SHABBAT READING Korah Took…: Prof. Haim (Howard) Kreisel, The Torah.com, June 22, 2023 — After the punishment of the wilderness generation for the sin of the scouts, Korah, a Levite, leads a group of people in an uprising against Moses.[1] Their complaint seems straightforward and reasonable: במדבר טז:ג וַיִּקָּהֲלוּ עַל מֹשֶׁה וְעַל אַהֲרֹן וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֲלֵהֶם רַב לָכֶם […]
Matthew Kassel Jewish Insider, June 1, 2023 “KC Johnson, a professor of American history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, believes the strategy “left unresolved” whether Biden officials are “willing to confront hardline critics of Israel whose words or actions stray into antisemitism.” The administration now has “an example of this,” Johnson told […]
Armin Rosen Tablet, July 1, 2022 ‘It is not a stretch to wonder if a pro-Zionist diversity bureaucrat is an ideological contradiction in terms.” Of all the signs that the Jewish community’s political influence has waned in New York City, perhaps none has been as stark as the City University of New York’s frequent […]
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