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Monday, April 10th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Yoav Limor Israel Hayom, Apr. 2, 2023 “Experience teaches us that these attacks do not happen without a reason. They are generally based on pinpointed intelligence.”   We cannot disconnect the series of attacks that were carried out last week in Damascus and the blow that was dealt to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) […]

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Monday, April 10th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Dr. Netanel Flamer BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,190, Mar. 28, 2023 “An infographic produced on March 1, 2023, in Al-Ahed, a website identified with Hezbollah, quotes senior Israeli officials on the struggle within Israeli society and reports on signs suggesting that that society is as fragile as a spiderweb, as suggested by the infographic’s heading.” […]

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Monday, April 10th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Yoni Ben Menachem JNS, Apr. 4, 2023 “Israel’s security establishment estimates that Iran is seeking ways to respond to Heydari’s death, and sooner rather than later.”   On April 2, 2023, Israel reportedly attacked several targets in Syria’s Homs province associated with the Syrian army and Iran-backed militias. Syrian state media reported that five military […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, April 4th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

INCREASING TIES  It Came to Pass at Midnight—From the Amidah to the Passover Haggadah:  Prof. Rabbi Laura Lieber, The Torah.com, Sept. 26, 2020  –– The Passover Haggadah concludes with a series of songs, the first of which is וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּיְלָה, Vayhi BeChatzi HaLayla, “It Came to Pass at Midnight” (Exod 12:29). The song, however, was not […]

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Tuesday, April 4th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Ruth R. Wisse WSJ, Mar. 30, 2023 “Why did “they” so often seek to destroy us? Why some nations and not others? Why the Germans? And why, more exigently by the late 1940s and ’50s, did Arab and Muslim leaders who already ruled over myriad countries adamantly refuse to coexist with the tiniest Jewish state? […]

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Tuesday, April 4th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Stuart Halpern Tablet, Mar. 31, 2023 ‘A harbinger of hope, a rebuker of the unrighteous, a hearer of stillness amid fractured times, the Seder night’s specter continues to visit, stirring Americans to perceive in his cup their own redemptive possibilities.’    Everyone’s favorite Passover guest is a ghost. In one of the Seder’s most mystical […]

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Tuesday, April 4th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Shalom Carm First Things, April 2023   “… for Jews, the normative memory of slavery is ­inseparable from the threat of extermination.”   Jews throughout the world celebrate the first nights of Passover, which commemorate God’s deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt 3,500 years ago. The focus is the Seder, a meal at which a […]

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Tuesday, April 4th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

EDWARD ROTHSTEIN  Sapir Journal, Vol. 7, Autumn 2022 In our era of cancellations and topplings, censorious declarations and virtue signaling, recantations and exorcisms, it’s almost possible to feel nostalgic for the days when PoMo reigned supreme. PoMo? Yes, or more formally, postmodernism — a set of suppositions about the world that once inspired the academic priesthood and […]

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Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century:  Jacob Siegel, Tablet, Mar. 28, 2023 Tablet’s Grand Opus on the Anti-Disinformation Complex:  Matt Taibbi, Racket News, Mar. 30, 2023 Disinformation In the Age of ChatGPT:  Maximiliana Wynne, Modern War Institute, Feb. 3, 2023 ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution:  Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher, WSJ, Feb. 24, […]

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Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Matt Taibbi, Racket News, Mar. 30, 2023 Years ago, when I first began to have doubts about the Trump-Russia story, I struggled to come up with a word to articulate my suspicions. If the story was wrong, and Trump wasn’t a Russian spy, there wasn’t a word for what was being perpetrated. This was a […]

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Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Jacob Siegel, Tablet, Mar. 28, 2023 PROLOGUE: THE INFORMATION WAR In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government. Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing. Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of […]

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Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

 Maximiliana Wynne, Modern War Institute, Feb. 3, 2023 If you spend any time on social media, listen to podcasts, or generally pay attention to the news, chances are you’ve heard of ChatGPT. The chatbot, launched by OpenAI in November, can write code, draft business proposals, pass exams, and generate guides on making Molotov cocktails. It […]