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Death of a Deluded Man

John Aziz Quillette, Oct. 19, 2024 “To judge him by his own terms, 7 October was a colossal and humiliating failure.” When I first heard, the news hadn’t yet been confirmed: there were just swirling rumours that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, had been killed in Gaza. But then within a half-hour, the press […]

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Death of a Fascist

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Brendan O’Neill Spiked, Oct. 17, 2024 “… there are consequences now to singling out Jews for special opprobrium and wicked violence. Do that today and you might very well die. Do that now and you might get your head caved in, as Sinwar did.” So Yahya Sinwar has been killed. The leader of Hamas in […]

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Israel Wins. Iran Club Loses

J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, Oct. 20, 2024 “So Israel has to win, not just look for an excuse to “settle.”  To invoke the framework of motives and methods laid out by Basil H. Liddell-Hart in his 1954 book Strategy, Israel has to seek a “better peace.”” In the aftermath of Yahya Sinwar’s death, it’s easy […]

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A Ceasefire Would Have Saved Sinwar and Guaranteed Another War

Gary Willig Israel National News, Oct. 20, 2024 “It must also be remembered that all of the good that has been accomplished in the last month never would have happened if a ceasefire had been reached beforehand.”   The month from September 17 through October 16 2024 may well be the most fateful and impactful […]

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Isranet Daily Briefing

Daily Briefing: SUCCOT: A HOLIDAY FOR OUR TIMES

REVELATORY JOURNEY WATCH:  Unlocking the Mystery of Sukkot through the Book of Ecclesiastes:  The Lessons of Kohelet:  Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — Friends, Succot. I want to share with you a journey. A long journey, actually, but not a difficult one but a really, really revelatory one, as to the nature of Succot. And […]

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The Palm Frond and the Sword

Meir Y. Soloveichik Commentary Magazine, October 2023 “But that was not all that Yadin found. The cavern contained letters from Bar Kochba himself, including one written in advance of the Sukkot holiday, referencing the ritual of waving a lulav, a palm frond:” Striking archeological discoveries are a constant in Israel, but they can still occasionally inspire wonder. […]

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Why Sukkot Is the Holiday You Need Right Now

Dovid Bashevkin Tablet, Sept. 1, 2021 “I don’t know why we long so for permanence,” writes the philosopher and physicist Alan Lightman, “why the fleeting nature of things so disturbs.” Most Jewish holidays are easy to explain to your non-Jewish colleagues. Many, if not most, know about Passover, and after enough years with enough Jewish […]

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God Bless Israel: Let Us Never Forget the Horrific Attack of Oct. 7, 2023

Scott Walker Washington Times, Oct. 10, 2024 “Over and over again, we will counter attempts to glorify terrorists and their evil deeds with the truth about the horrors of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and all others who seek to harm Israel and Jewish people around the world. They continue trying to intimidate us, but we will not back […]

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The Jewish Moment

Melanie Phillips JNS, Oct. 10, 2024 “These Jews have a choice. They can recognize the unique value of the inherited, specific precepts of Judaism that have bound the Jewish people together over the centuries and enabled it to survive every culture that has tried to annihilate it. Or else they can stick with a Western culture […]

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Daily Briefing: CBS DISGRACES ITSELF OVER TA-NEHISI COATES INTERVIEW

MESSAGE RECEIVED The Extremism of Ta-Nehisi Coates:  Ethan Strauss and Park MacDougald, The Scroll, Oct 11, 2024 — The fallout continues over Ta-Nehisi Coates and his new anti-Israel book, The Message. The Championing of Ta-Nehisi Coates Exposes the Media’s Gross Bias:  Melissa Langsam Braunstein, Jewish Chronicle, Oct. 15, 2024 — Publicising his new book, The Message, on Trevor Noah’s podcast, […]

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The Big Lie of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 10 Days In ‘Palestine’

Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Oct. 9. 2024 “The message this sends to all journalists at the news network is that they better not ask any tough questions when interviewing those who advocate for the end of Israel.”   There are times when terrible books can be useful. In the case of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ truly awful The […]

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Israel: The Racist Protocols of Ta-Nehisi Coates

*** David Harsanyi Washington Examiner, Oct. 1, 2024 “Coates is less a one-note thinker than a toddler banging on a snare drum with a mallet.” Ta-Nehisi Coates begins the Israeli-Palestinian section of his new book, The Message, with a visit to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. The excursion, taken on the last day of his 10-day junket to […]

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