Analysis
Wednesday, April 23rd 2025
Matt Lebovic Times of Israel, Feb. 24, 2025 “People should understand that for many decades after the Holocaust, governments and multinational corporations helped Nazis hide their stolen money, avoid prosecution, and live the free lives that their victims deserved.” Argentinian President Javier Milei promised officials of the Simon Wiesenthal Center his full cooperation in granting […]
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Tal Ariel Yakir Israel Hayom, Apr. 21, 2025 “… the Jewish underground members began to organize for the revolt, in which hundreds of prisoners participated.” As a young boy, Biskowitz became one of the few people who survived for an extended period in a death camp, participated in the revolt that led to the camp’s […]
Jan Lee JNS, Apr. 21, 2025 “If we want younger generations to carry on the lessons we are imparting today about the dangers of antisemitism, we need to be willing to discuss antisemitism’s millennia-long history, as well as the role it played in fomenting a major event like the Holocaust.” This year, as we honor Yom Hashoah […]
Zev Stub Times of Israel, Apr. 22, 2025 “… threats by the US government that TikTok could be banned in the country, as well as pressure from the company’s pro-Israel investors, have forced its parent company, ByteDance, to make efforts to show that it is taking a new tack.” Ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 24, […]
Tuesday, April 22nd 2025
Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh Politico, Apr. 19, 2025 “… the Islamic Republic has entered talks with the Trump administration not because of external pressure but in order to preserve the essential features of its expanding nuclear infrastructure — and they feel confident they can achieve this if the talks proceed.” Across the political […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Tuesday, April 22nd 2025 / Tuesday, April 22nd 2025
That Iran might use all of its proxies to respond to such an attack is indeed a risk. But what’s more likely is that so long as the strikes only target military and nuclear sites, Ayatollah Khamenei will not risk escalation.” — Mike Pompeo HIGH STAKES TALKS WATCH: Dr. Wurmser: Dissecting Trump’s Iran Strategy: Center […]
Tuesday, April 22nd 2025 / Monday, April 21st 2025
Mike Pompeo The Free Press, Apr. 18, 2025 “This “war or deal” narrative is being peddled by many of the “populist” Tucker Carlson-esque isolationists who have burrowed inside President Trump’s orbit. They repeat this mantra, exactly as President Barack Obama and Secretary John Kerry repeated endlessly—and wrongly.” In early April, President Trump reportedly “waved off” an Israeli […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Apr. 17, 2025 “… what would be the American goal in any negotiations with Iran? Should it be the complete elimination of Iran’s nuclear program or merely an effort to slow down or impose restrictions on the regime’s ability to refine uranium?” It’s too soon to declare the Trump administration’s policy […]
Kamran Bokhari Geopolitical Futures, Apr. 17, 2025 “Once Khamenei is out of the picture, the military – itself divided between the ideological Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the more professional Artesh (regular armed forces) – will likely replace the clergy as the regime’s core.” The Trump administration’s diplomacy with Iran is about much more than […]
Laurence Norman WSJ, Apr. 19, 2025 “The critical gap in IAEA knowledge of Iran’s nuclear program is Iran’s inventory of centrifuges, machines that spin uranium into higher levels of enrichment.” President Trump is calling for Iran to “go fast” to secure a new nuclear accord. But for any deal to work, Tehran will have to account […]
Friday, April 18th 2025
SHABBAT READING Song of Songs: A Secret for Maimonides, An Open Book for Gersonides: Prof. Menachem Kellner, The Torah.com, Apr. 17, 2025— If ever a biblical text “cried out” to be interpreted allegorically, it is Song of Songs. Indeed, the Talmud states that treating the Song like a regular song is an insult to God […]
Friday, April 18th 2025 / Thursday, April 17th 2025
Michael Doran WSJ, Apr. 11, 2025 “If Syria became like Jordan—a buffer between hostile powers—everyone would win.” Ending Iran’s nuclear-weapons program may be President Trump’s top goal for stabilizing the Middle East, but his biggest test lies in Syria. Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former rebel who overthrew the Assad regime four months ago, presides over a weak […]
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