Analysis
Tuesday, July 4th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
JPost staff Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2023 “Jenin has been a center of terror for decades.” The clashes that occurred in Jenin on Monday, resulting in seven Israeli servicemen being wounded, mark a significant escalation by Palestinian terrorists against Israel, and highlight the Palestinian Authority’s failure to rein in the growing lawlessness in the West Bank. Over […]
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Caroline Glick Israel National News, July 3, 2023 “… unfortunately, the IDF doesn’t share the Netanyahu government’s understanding of the strategic realities on the ground. And as a result, a wider operation is unlikely.” What can we expect from the IDF’s current operation in Jenin? According to the IDF, the goal of the operation is […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, July 4, 2023 “Iran also wants to move slowly as it usually does in the region. This means a combination of Iran’s octopus-like strategy across the region, with a kind of anaconda-like attempt to surround Israel with threats” Iran has been trying to empower Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the West […]
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Friday, June 30th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023
SHABBAT READING Balaam Sets His Face Towards the Calf—A Targum Tradition: Dr. Shlomi Efrati, The Torah.com, July 14, 2022 — The Jewish Aramaic renderings of the Hebrew Bible, collectively known as “Targum”—the Hebrew/Aramaic word for both “interpretation” and “translation”—were composed over several centuries, in various places and for different purposes. While the earliest Targums […]
Thursday, June 29th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
CDR. David Levy BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,204, June 27, 2023 “… in response to a question about the deadly Djerba synagogue attack, Saied replied that Palestinians “are killed every day” and “no one talks about it.” Tunisia, like its sister Maghreb states, Egypt and Morocco, is a moderate North African Sunni Muslim […]
Rachel Gilmore Global News, June 13, 2022 “People live in Djerba, there are Jews here, and they go out into the souk with the kippa on their heads. It doesn’t bother anyone. There are no comments. It’s totally normal.” Djerba’s historic El Ghriba synagogue is nestled on a small island off the coast of Tunisia, […]
Simon Speakman Cordall Foreign Policy, June 2, 2023 “[Saied] deals in a very utopian vision. Anything that contradicts that—such as anti-Semitism or the recent attacks on the country’s undocumented black migrants—has to be rejected and denied.” Tunisia has largely moved on from the May 9 killing of five people at the El Ghriba synagogue on the […]
Daniel Brumberg Arab Center Washington, DC, June 22, 2023 “While unhappy with Saied’s clampdown, many professionals and business leaders are not ready to come out en masse to back the protesters.” If this author has drawn one conclusion from his recent trip to Tunisia it is that rekindling the country’s democracy will require a […]
Thursday, June 29th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023
Prigozhin’s Rebellion, Putin’s Fate, and Russia’s Future: A Conversation with Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, June 24, 2023 Did ‘General Armageddon’ Help Plan the Russian Coup?: Jim Geraghty, National Review, June 28, 2023 What Wagner’s Mutiny Means for Its Sprawling Business Empire: Simon Marks and Stephanie Baker, Bloomberg, June 27, 2023 China’s Ties to Putin, Kremlin […]
Simon Marks and Stephanie Baker Bloomberg, June 27, 2023 “If the relationship between the Russian government and Wagner is broken, it means that their relationship in CAR and Mali is also broken,” said Kessy Martin Ekomo Soignet, who heads Peace and Development Watch, a Bangui-based think tank. “What is happening is destroying the narrative” that […]
Foreign Affairs, June 24, 2023 “… look at his pithy and pointed vocabulary, his cadences, his ability to assume the role of tough guy, heart-on-the-sleeve Russian patriot, the truth teller who calls out the opportunists, the morons, and the thieves Putin has appointed.” Stephen Kotkin is a preeminent historian of Russia and the author […]
Jim Geraghty National Review, June 28, 2023 “Brutal Maniac, Working with Other Brutal Maniac, Fails to Depose Chief Brutal Maniac.” An Unprepared Putin Many aspects of this weekend’s short-lived coup attempt in Russia remain mysterious, but the Wall Street Journal’s Bojan Pancevski, the paper’s Germany correspondent, sheds a little light on what Yevgeny Prigozhin wanted to […]
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