Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, October 6th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023
SHABBAT READING What is Shemini Atzeret?: Rabbi Paul Steinberg, My Jewish Learning, no date — Although Hoshanah Rabbah may technically be the “last day” of Sukkot, the Rabbis decided to treat Shemini Atzeret (and Simchat Torah) as a part of Sukkot , because its significance is unequivocally informed by Sukkot itself. _______________________________________________________ Remembering the Yom Kippur War in a […]
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Friday, October 6th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Ronen Bergman, Or Fialkov Ynet News, Sept. 15, 2023 “In case of a system failure or a problem with the plane, you cannot return to base. You have one option: to fly to an open area at a remote location. Then, the pilot must make sure the plane is abandoned or the system is destroyed […]
Moshe Phillips Israel National News, Sept. 28, 2023 “Having prevented Israel from striking first, Kissinger then exploited Israel’s suffering in the early days of the war in order to advance his strategy.” There have been numerous articles, seminars, and lectures in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Yet, somehow, they […]
Michael Doran Mosaic Magazine, Oct. 2, 2023 “How could it be that these Egyptians were crossing the canal right in our faces? How was it that they were moving forward, and we were defeated?”” History records Israel’s triumph in 1967 as the Six-Day War, but the key operations that clinched the victory took closer to six hours than […]
Michael Oren WSJ, Sept. 28, 2023 “The result was a conflict that, in terms of its scale and complexity, was almost unmatched in the post-World War II era.” Recently, while walking in a Tel Aviv park, I was approached by a well-dressed, elderly man who recognized me—I once served as Israel’s ambassador to the […]
Thursday, October 5th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023
Inside Tehran’s Soft War: Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, Iran International, no date — Three Iran experts who have worked closely with Robert Malley, the Biden administration’s special envoy on Iran, were members of an influence network formed and guided by Tehran, an investigation by Iran International shows. _____________________________________________________ Inside Iran’s Influence Operation: Jay Solomon, Semafor, Sept. 29, […]
Thursday, October 5th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Lee Smith Tablet, Oct. 1, 2023 “… the IEI recruited several U.S.-based analysts, including Tabatabai, Ali Vaez, and Dina Esfandiary, all of whom willingly accepted Iranian guidance.” The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, […]
Jay Solomon Semafor, Sept.29, 2023 “This initiative which we call ‘Iran Experts Initiative (IEI)’ is consisted of a core group of 6-10 distinguished second-generation Iranians who have established affiliations with the leading international think-tanks and academic institutions, mainly in Europe and the US.” THE SCOOP In the spring of 2014, senior Iranian Foreign Ministry […]
Graeme Wood The Atlantic, Sept. 28, 2023 “… some of the reported exchanges between the Iran Experts and their convenor are mortifying.” When news comes out that someone has suffered an email breach, my first instinct is to pity them and practice extreme charity. I don’t remember any emails I wrote a decade ago, […]
Caroline Glick Carolineglick.com, Sept. 29, 2023 “Vaez, who served as the head of ICG’s Iran desk rewrote the Iranian draft and published it as a policy paper under his name and the ICG banner. Vaez called his laundered Iranian draft, “Iran and the P5+1: Solving the Nuclear Rubik’s Cube.”” There is something terribly disturbing […]
Wednesday, October 4th 2023 / Tuesday, October 3rd 2023
WEEKLY QUOTES “The wars of the Jews are always the ugliest. The Arabs won’t need to fight. The Jews, as usual, will destroy themselves.” — Yoni Netanyahu, late brother of P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu, to his parents in November 1973. (WSJ, Sept. 28, 2023) “Our government won’t come within a kilometer of anything that even […]
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Wednesday, October 4th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
Des archives déclassifiées témoignent de fortes réserves sur les accords d’Oslo MICHAEL BACHNER […]
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