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Israel Concerned Over Turkish Moves in Syria

Israel Hayom, Jan. 8, 2025 “Turkey’s interests in turning Syria into a client state, thereby bolstering its regional influence, are clear. Our response includes on-the-ground actions and preparing for potential threats that could escalate rapidly.” Turkey’s attempt to turn Syria into a client state, replacing Iran and Russia as key influencers, is a growing concern […]

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Israel Is Overhauling Its Defense Ideology; Will Arab States Finally Support It?

Hussain Abdul-Hussain Algemeiner, Jan. 14, 2025 “From an Arab perspective, of the three regional powers, the least expansive and intrusive is Israel, followed by Turkey, which puts its economy ahead of imperial ambitions and therefore limits its regional adventures.”  Israel is perhaps the most muscular and influential power in the Middle East today. When Israel […]

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Future of the IDF: Nagel Commission Issues Report on Transforming Military

Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Jan. 7, 2025 “Interestingly, Nagel did not think that the IDF’s size was inadequate on October 7, 2023, but does think it is inadequately small now in light of the seven fronts it faces challenges on.” The government commission headed by former national security council chief Jacob Nagel issued its […]

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Daily Briefing: DOES ITS POSTMODERN MILITARY MINDSET HAMPER THE IDF?

  WATCH:  Amiad Cohen: Exposing the Failures of the IDF Leadership:  Caroline B. Glick, JNS, Jan. 8, 2025 — Amiad Cohen, founder and CEO of Herut‒The Center for Israeli Liberty, joins JNS senior contributing editor Caroline Glick to answer questions about the wars on the Jewish state’s borders. Cohen offers an inside look and adds […]

Building of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague in 2019. (Wikipedia)

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Dutch District Court Judgment on Military Support to and Trade with Israel

Marten Zwanenburg and Johanna Trittenbach Lieber Institute, Dec 23, 2024 “The court stated that the primary question in this case was whether, and to what extent, a court in summary proceedings can exercise judicial review of the State’s foreign and defense policy.”  On Friday 13 December 2024, the District Court of the Hague handed down its judgment in […]

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What’s Wrong with the Postmodern Military?

Ran Baratz Mosaic Magazine, Jan. 6, 2025 “If the cold war had a deleterious effect on military thinking, the effect of the post-cold-war era was even worse.”  The October 7 attack from Gaza was not supposed to have been possible. Israelis were continuously assured by the security establishment and political leaders that Hamas was “deterred,” […]

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Stealth and Scale: Quality, Quantity, and Modern Military Power

Michael Horowitz and Joshua Schwartz War on the Rocks, Dec. 18, 2024  “… precise weaponry is now much more widely available to weak powers than it was in the past, and the low cost of many of these systems enables actors to deploy precision technology at scale.” From strikes by uncrewed aerial systems launching precision […]

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America and Europe Can Hang Together or Hang Separately

Victor Davis Hanson Toronto Sun, Jan. 10, 2025 “But 2025 is certainly not 2017 or even 2020. And a “reset” in thinking on both sides is urgently now needed more than ever.” Consider these European and American binaries. On Dec. 20, 2024, a terrorist, Taleb Al-Abdul Mohsen, rammed his SUV into a Christmas crowd in […]

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Justin Trudeau, Israël et les Juifs: autopsie d’une lente rupture

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Citation de la semaine: Trudeau a perdu la confiance d’une grande partie de la communauté juive du Canada Times of Israel Table des Matières Trudeau a perdu la confiance d’une grande partie de la communauté juive du Canada: Andrew Lapin, Times Of Israel, 7 janvier 2025, Le Canada exécuterait le mandat d’arrêt contre Nétanyahou, laisse […]

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Daily Briefing: UNDERSTANDING THE ISLAMIST CHALLENGE

WATCH:  ILTV’s Viewpoint: Ayaan Hirsi Ali:  ILTV Israel News, Apr. 7, 2024 — ILTV’s Emily Schrader sits down with author and founder of the AHA Foundation, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, for a discussion on the future of the West under the threat of Islamist terrorism and how Israel’s battle against Hamas is at the forefront of […]

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America’s Islamist Problem

Melanie Phillips JNS, Jan. 5, 2025 “This myopia derives from a refusal by the Western establishment to acknowledge that Islamic radicalism is rooted in Islamic theology.” How many wake-up calls does a society need before it takes notice? On New Year’s Day, a terrorist rammed a truck bearing an Islamic State flag into revelers on […]

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The Rape Jihad Is Unmentionable Because It’s Doctrinal

Andrew C. McCarthy National Review, Jan. 11, 2025 “Doctrine matters to our enemies. Which is why it should matter to us.” On our pages, over a decade ago, I scoffed at a colleague who had suggested that ISIS — the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, which used to be the Iraqi franchise of its now rival al-Qaeda […]

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