Analysis

Sunday, February 12th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Vivian Yee NY Times, Jan. 23, 2023 “This I.M.F. deal is preventing them from failing, but they’re imposing a lot of conditions on that in a way they hadn’t in the past.”   Around the time Egypt’s currency hit an all-time low, an article this month on the country’s sharp economic downturn quietly slipped off […]

Analysis

Sunday, February 12th 2023 / Sunday, February 12th 2023

Danny Zaken Globes, Feb. 8, 2023 “… within three years, the scale of exports to Europe would increase many times over and with it the tax royalties and levies for the state. We are talking about many billions that may be lost without direction from above, removing obstacles, high-level regional cooperation between leaders, and accelerated […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, February 10th 2023

               What Drives the Left to Incite Civil War?:  Caroline Glick, JNS, Feb. 10, 2023 —  Dr. David Wurmser, my colleague at the Center for Security Policy, joined me on this week’s episode of the “Caroline Glick Show.” I opened the show this week by discussing the chasm between […]

Analysis

Friday, February 10th 2023

Peter Berkowitz Real Clear Politics, Feb. 5, 2023   “So it is not by verbal chance that Trudeau used the word “reset” in his video conference speech.”   Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lit up some of the highly flammable sections of social media the other day after excerpts from a two-month-old virtual speech he gave […]

Analysis

Friday, February 10th 2023 / Friday, February 10th 2023

Haviv Rettig Gur Times of Israel, Feb. 7, 2023 “the failed filibuster wasn’t the exception that Gantz seemed to suggest. It’s the norm.”   “Mistakes happen. We’re all people,” National Unity party chief Benny Gantz tweeted on January 23. It was an apology of sorts. Gantz’s party had just failed to show up to its own filibuster, allowing […]

Analysis

Friday, February 10th 2023 / Friday, February 10th 2023

Gadi Taub Tablet, Jan. 25, 2023   “The Netanyahu trial and bottom-up demands for judicial reform have melded together into a hugely consequential showdown between patricians and plebs.” The Israeli election in November was, in large part, a referendum on the Netanyahu trial. The jury came back with a clear verdict: not guilty. Israelis, or […]

Analysis

Friday, February 10th 2023

Mordechai Nisan Newsmax, Feb. 6, 2023 “After dragging important Israelis through the public mire and their human rights quashed, nobody was accountable for this grave injustice.”   Like most things about Jews, their politics in Israel are also unusual, different, and idiosyncratic. While much of the modern appurtenances of democracy apply to the political conduct of […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, February 9th 2023 / Thursday, February 16th 2023

Citation de la semaine: “Dans toutes mes années à titre de Premier ministre, je n’ai épargné aucun effort pour renforcer et élargir le cercle de la paix. Et avec l’aide de Dieu, nous y parvenons avec nos voisins, avec les Emirats, Bahreïn et le Soudan et j’espère que ce cercle continuera de croître” (2020) Table […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, February 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  HOODWINKING GLOBAL COMMUNITIES China Has an Intelligence Gathering Architecture Unlike Any Other:  Harsh V. Pant and Anant Mann,  The Print, Sept. 15, 2020 — Despite China’s global imprint and its dramatic rise over the last few decades, its intelligence services have managed to avoid global scrutiny. The paucity of information on Chinese covert operations […]

Analysis

Thursday, February 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Byron York Washington Examiner, Feb. 6, 2023 “I don’t know of any balloon flights by any power over the United States during my tenure, and I’d never heard of any of that occurring before I joined in 2018. I haven’t heard of anything that occurred after I left, either. I can say with 100% certainty, […]

Analysis

Thursday, February 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Andrew C. McCarthy National Review, Feb. 6, 2023 “Did the balloon have the capacity to transmit data it was collecting to the regime in Beijing in real time?”   What we are learning about the U.S. response to China’s balloon surveillance is not encouraging. The Biden administration has struggled to explain why the balloon, which was finally […]

Analysis

Thursday, February 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

C. Zachary Hofer and Carter Palmer Defense & Security Monitor, Feb. 6, 2023 “The major benefit of a stratospheric surveillance balloon is as a signals intelligence platform.”   From the end of January and into February, an uncommon object captured the attention of observers around the globe, but probably none more so than the Canadian […]