Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, November 1st 2024

SHABBAT READING Id and Superego: The Two Flood Stories and the Human Condition:  Rabbi David Bigman, The Torah.com, Nov. 4, 2016   — The flood story ends with the famous verse: בראשית ח:כא  וַיָּרַח יְ-הוָה אֶת רֵיחַ הַנִּיחֹחַ וַיֹּאמֶר יְ-הוָה אֶל לִבּוֹ לֹא אֹסִף לְקַלֵּל עוֹד אֶת הָאֲדָמָה בַּעֲבוּר הָאָדָם כִּי יֵצֶר לֵב הָאָדָם רַע מִנְּעֻרָיו. Gen 8:21 […]

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Friday, November 1st 2024

Arthur Herman Mosaic, Oct. 15, 2024 “That which makes the Jews strong is precisely what drives others to fury and envy.” After the events of last October 7, most of us assumed—naively as it turned out—that the brutal massacre of 1,200 innocent Israelis would trigger a great outpouring of sympathy and support for Israel. We […]

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Friday, November 1st 2024

David Isaac JNS, Oct. 21, 2024 “There is a gap between the sanctions or designations in place and the willingness or operational capability of European governments or the E.U. institutions to enforce them.” The Hamas terror organization has managed to increase its fundraising efforts in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom since […]

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Friday, November 1st 2024

Melanie Phillips Substack, Oct. 30, 2024 “The tactic Shriver is aptly describing is designed to set one Jew against the other, to act as a kind of proxy assassin on behalf of the Jew-basher who can thus claim to have clean hands.” It’s a fair bet that the authors and publishing professionals who have called […]

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Friday, November 1st 2024

Eldad Beck Jerusalem Post, Oct. 31, 2024 “… the Jewish communities in Austria, France, and Germany say that they don’t even want to get close to the far-right parties in those countries, the EJC president said.” Recent electoral gains of far-right parties in Austria and Germany and the election of a far-right politician as president […]

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Thursday, October 31st 2024 / Thursday, October 31st 2024

ALL DONE? Lebanese MP: Israel Defeated Hezbollah, ‘It’s Over’ For Terror Group:  WIN staff, World Israel News, Oct. 28, 2024 — A Lebanese parliamentarian declared that Hezbollah has been defeated by Israel, adding that the terror group is no longer relevant as a political or military force in Lebanon.   Lebanon Ceasefire Draft Revealed: IDF Withdrawal Within a Week, US Supervision […]

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Thursday, October 31st 2024

Michal Kranz Unherd, Oct. 9, 2024 “It’s already clear that Lebanon’s old political order is dead and buried.”   Over the last fortnight, everything has changed in Lebanon. Hezbollah, which had dominated the country’s politics for more than 20 years, has seen its leadership decapitated, its arsenal diminished, its anti-Zionist credentials tarnished. All the while, […]

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Thursday, October 31st 2024

Hany Ghoraba IPT News, Oct. 30, 2024   “… appointing him (Qassem) as a General Secretary was the most logical since he was the Deputy General Secretary since 1991 which means that he was the most loyal to Iran and most trust by them”    Hezbollah is still attempting to recoup its losses following the […]

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Thursday, October 31st 2024

Dov Lieber WSJ, Oct. 15, 2024 “With a ground campaign, you know where you’ll start, but don’t know where you’ll finish.”   Near the point where Israel, Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea meet, Israeli soldiers were patrolling a forest when they spotted something strange—a small patch of green paint on a tree. It was a […]

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Thursday, October 31st 2024

Kyle Orton Fathom Journal, October 2024 “… what has happened to Hezbollah is distinctly unequal: decapitation this thorough and rapid has few precedents.”   Hezbollah, the branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) that controls Lebanon, joined the war against Israel on 8 October 2023, the day after the horrendous pogrom that murdered 1,200 Israelis and […]

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Wednesday, October 30th 2024 / Wednesday, October 30th 2024

PROMOTING TERRORISM Contempt For Colonna: UNRWA Leaders Continue to Promote Terrorism:  UNWatch, June 20, 2024 — Presented to Parliament of the Netherlands The Hague, 20 June 2024   UN Secretary-General, UNRWA Nominated for Nobel Prize:  Neta Bar, Israel Hayom, Oct. 3, 2024 — UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the UNRWA agency, and the International Court of Justice in The Hague […]

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Wednesday, October 30th 2024

Canaan Lidor and Amelie Botbol JNS, Oct. 29, 2024 “In my opinion this move won’t be the end of UNRWA, but I would hope that responsible governments such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom or Germany take this as an opportunity to engage in significant investigations.”   Israel’s Knesset on Monday made it […]