Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, May 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

 Operation Shield and Arrow May Test Iran’s ‘Unity of Front’ Plan – Analysis:  Seth J. Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, May 9, 2023 Israel’s Deepening Iran Dilemma:  Ilan Berman, Washington Times, May 5, 2023 Tehran ‘Already Violating’ Missile Embargo Set to Expire in October:  Yaakov Lappin, JNS, May 2, 2023 China and Russia Encourage Iran to Go Nuclear:  Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, WSJ, […]

Analysis

Thursday, May 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh WSJ, May 8, 2023 “Russia, China and Iran all want to diminish American power. They recognize that they need to help each other militarily and economically to achieve common goals.”   Iran has secured great-power patronage for the first time in four decades. Tehran now possess advanced centrifuges, a growing stockpile of […]

Analysis

Thursday, May 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Yaakov Lappin JNS, May 2, 2023 “… there is no political way to extend the embargo in the Security Council.  Russia certainly will not support that, and neither will China. Hence, the struggle moves from the political-international frameworks to a broad political campaign in which Israel and the U.S. will have to activate a carrot-and-stick […]

Analysis

Thursday, May 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Ilan Berman Washington Times, May 5, 2023 “America has the capability to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat, but it doesn’t have the political will to do so. Israel, by contrast, is in the opposite position; it has sufficient will, but lacks the capability to deal with the Iranian threat in a lasting fashion.”   The Islamic […]

Analysis

Thursday, May 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, May 9, 2023 “Tehran must tread carefully as it considers its next steps and how it wants to make moves relating to Israel’s operation.”   Operation Shield and Arrow may be the first test for Iran’s ‘unity of fronts’ project, which is designed to ring Israel with threats and cause […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, May 10th 2023

À la mémoire des victimes de la synagogue de Djerba. Djerba : Les deux victimes juives de la fusillade identifiées Times of Israel, Mai 2023 Une attaque lors du pèlerinage juif à la synagogue de la Ghriba à Djerba en Tunisie a fait quatre morts dont deux fidèles juifs la nuit dernière. Les deux autres décès sont […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, May 10th 2023

                                         WEEKLY QUOTES “We must be ready for any scenario, including a prolonged campaign and expanding the firing ranges. It is very important that the citizens, under your leadership, be disciplined, attentive and listen to life-saving […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, May 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

BONFIRES AND SONG Understanding Lag B’Omer: The Mystical Holiday of Holy Fire:  Rabbi Ari Enkin, United With Israel, May 8, 2023 — Lag B’omer marks the cessation of the plague that killed 24,000 students of beloved scholar Rabbi Akiva (50-135 AD). It might just be that this plague was the failed Bar Kochba revolt in which Rabbi Akiva’s […]

Analysis

Tuesday, May 9th 2023

Jerry A. Coyne and Anna I. Krylov WSJ, Apr. 27, 2023 “… scientific research can’t and shouldn’t be conducted via a process that gives a low priority to science itself.”   Until a few months ago, we’d never heard of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, a peer-reviewed publication whose aim is to promote “free inquiry on controversial topics.” […]

Analysis

Tuesday, May 9th 2023

Bruce Thornton, FPM Israpundit, May 2, 2023 “… he was an extreme Afrocentrist, author of many books describing how Greek civilization was stolen from Africa, how Aristotle robbed the library of Alexandria, and how the true Jews are Africans like himself.”   A culture-war squall occurred recently over a Netflix series about Cleopatra, who is played by […]

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Tuesday, May 9th 2023

John J. Miller National Review, Mar. 30, 2023 “Fascism was a European nationalist mass movement of the early 20th century that wanted to overthrow the liberal system. It cannot be revived in the terms of the cultural, social, and political structures of modern Western countries. … The basic rule of thumb is that the more […]

Analysis

Tuesday, May 9th 2023

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness, May 7, 2023 “Yesterday’s French revolutionary became today’s counterrevolutionary—and tomorrow’s decapitated.”   The decade-long French Revolution that broke out in 1789 soon devolved into far more than removing the monarchy, as it became antithetical to the earlier American precedent. American notions of liberty and freedom were seen as far too […]