Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, April 17th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  “Behind this vision, as always with the radical Democrats, is power, manifested in the drive arbitrarily to control individuals [which, again, involves de facto abrogation of Constitutional guarantees—much safer than a politically-risky direct assault on the Constitution] by limiting individual liberty and due process).” – Prof. Frederick Krantz Biden EPA’s New Vehicle Emissions Standards Spark Backlash from Auto Industry, Republicans: Nathan […]

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Monday, April 17th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Nathan Worcester The Epoch Times, Apr. 12, 2023 “The American people won’t stand for it.”   The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed emissions standards for automobiles and trucks are raising eyebrows in the auto industry and Washington alike. “EPA’s proposed emissions plan is aggressive by any measure. By that, I mean it sets automotive electrification […]

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Monday, April 17th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Andrew Stuttaford National Review, Jan. 19, 2023  “… like many of the religious cults it resembles, climate fundamentalism is characterized by a perpetual quest for purity.”   The more the state ‘plans,’” wrote Hayek, “the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.” This may resonate with the driver of an electric vehicle (EV) who has pulled […]

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Monday, April 17th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Jianli Yang Washington Times, Apr. 10, 2023   “… working with Chinese battery makers when the CCP is actively attempting to undercut our position globally and performing open acts of belligerence such as flying spy balloons over our sovereign territory is just as wrong.”   As a longtime China analyst and watchdog, I am gravely concerned that […]

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Sunday, April 16th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Frederick Krantz  Isranet, Apr. 17, 2023  The car companies brought this “backlash” against EVs on themselves, drooling over federal subsidies for electric cars. And the article omits key negative considerations—the pollution issuing from the daily need to generate—ironically, through continuing use of coal, oil, and natural gas–enough electricity to charge over 230 million electric cars; […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, April 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

YHWH Battles the Egyptians with a Fiery Cloud:  Dr. David Ben-Gad HaCohen, The Torah.com, Apr. 7, 2023 — After the Israelites leave Egypt, the travel east to the border of the wilderness. שמות יג:כ וַיִּסְעוּ מִסֻּכֹּת וַיַּחֲנוּ בְאֵתָם בִּקְצֵה הַמִּדְבָּר.. Exod 13:20 They set out from Sukkot, and encamped at Etham, at the edge of the wilderness… […]

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Friday, April 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Ronen Bergman, Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner NYTimes, Apr. 8, 2023 “Israeli political commentators said on Sunday that the leaked assessment appeared to confuse the notions of “encouraging” and “allowing,” and to mix up the actions of former Mossad employees with those of current employees.”   The Israeli government issued a statement on Sunday firmly […]

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Friday, April 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Apr. 9, 2023 “If The New York Times report and the American intelligence cables are disinformation, they could have been concocted by Russian intelligence and trumpeted by elements in Israel who wish to discredit the protest movement.”   A debate raged throughout the day on Sunday about the veracity of what appeared […]

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Friday, April 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Melanie Phillips JNS, Mar. 30, 2023 “Whatever individual protesters may have told themselves, the real purpose of the uprising was not to stop judicial reform. It was to get rid of Netanyahu.”     Whatever one thinks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, any true Israeli patriot will surely react viscerally to U.S. President Joe […]

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Friday, April 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Elliot Kaufman WSJ, Mar. 30, 2023 “He was met immediately with a revolt not of Israel’s underclass, but its overclass. The military leadership threw its weight against the reform. The federation of labor unions called a general strike and shut down the major airport, much of the economy and the medical system, and even Israeli […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, April 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

INCREASING TIES WATCH:  Ruth Wisse Reflects on Anti-Semitism, the University, and American Society, Free as a Jew: Mosaic Magazine, Feb. 6, 2023  — In an in-depth discussion with Bari Weiss, drawn from her memoir Free as Jew (originally published in Mosaic), Ruth R. Wisse discusses her own remarkable life, the state of American Jewry today, the decline of America’s universities, the perils […]

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Tuesday, April 11th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Sheryl Abbey Jerusalem Post, Apr. 5, 2023 “Sometimes you need just one fate.” Wearing his trademark khakis, clogs and wide felt hat, artist Gunter Demnig angled out of his van and approached those of us gathered outside an old half-timbered house. Local historian Michael Schroeder stepped forward to greet him. “Yes, everything is in order,” he assured […]