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Wednesday, June 22nd 2022
WEEKLY QUOTES “Without pressure from the West, the Islamic regime in Iran could get their hands on a nuclear bomb very soon. The world must take a firm stance … Iran’s nuclear program won’t stop until it’s stopped.” — Israel PM Naftali Bennett to The Telegraph. Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on May 17 […]
Tuesday, June 21st 2022
Far-right Conspiracy Theories Are Now Embedded in the UK Mainstream: Melanie Phillips, Open Democracy, May 24, 2022 — The threat of far-right terrorism is overstated, according to Sir William Shawcross, who is leading an independent review of the UK government’s anti-extremism strategy Prevent. Renewed EU Aid to Palestinian Authority Will Compromise Fight Against Antisemitism in […]
Analysis
Tuesday, June 21st 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Melanie Phillips Israel Today, June 17, 2022 “So does this mean the EU is now changing its attitude to Israel?” People dining this week on the charming terrace at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel were surprised to find at the next table Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. Given the EU’s long-standing hostility towards […]
Samy Adghimi Washington Post, June 20, 2022 “Le Pen’s promise to reverse a decline in living standards and boost wages found a receptive audience in deprived provincial areas during the presidential campaign.” Only once has France had a far-right government — in the dark days of Nazi occupation during World War II. That lingering association […]
Alexander Brotman Geopolitical Monitor, June 15, 2022 “As is the case with all of Russia’s hybrid warfare and disinformation campaigns, Moscow doesn’t have to offer a valid alternative to the EU, it just has to show that the EU is too cumbersome and unruly to be worth the effort.” As most of the world has […]
Joseph Berger NY Times, June 7, 2022 “Describing the separations in her testimony recounted in the Queens College exhibition, Ms. Geulen spoke of how hard it was “to tear a child away from his mother and not tell her where we were taking him, and to have her cry and cry, ‘Tell me at least, […]
Monday, June 20th 2022 / Thursday, June 23rd 2022
The Great Paradox of Swedish Neutrality in the Cold War and Today: Susanne Berger, War on the Rocks, Dec. 28, 2015 — For years now, political observers have struggled to properly assess Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aims and ambitions. One large obstacle standing in the way of realistic analysis might be that today’s […]
Monday, June 20th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Owen Greene The Conversation, May 26, 2022 “The 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and intervention in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine confirmed that Russia no longer accepted previous agreed national boundaries.” Sweden’s application to join Nato in May marks a major shift away from its longstanding position as a neutral state, stretching back to 1812. Yet […]
Robbie Gramer Foreign Policy, June 7, 2022 “The risk of escalation still remains, so it’s prudent for NATO planners to be thinking about what a potential conflict between NATO and Russia could look like.” During his decade and a half at the Pentagon, Christopher Skaluba read countless reports and assessments on the Russian military and […]
Vazha Tavberidze RFE/RL, May 26, 2022 “… now the Baltic Sea will practically become a lake [belonging to] NATO. Russia has a couple of 100 kilometers of shoreline in the Baltic Sea, which is 98 percent surrounded by NATO countries. So Russia’s ability to have any military operations there will be practically zero.” After decades […]
Adam O’Neal WSJ, June 12, 2022 “In late November, or early December, we heard Russians also saying that NATO must not or should not take any more new members. Well, that led to an odd situation.” Finnish President Sauli Niinistö called Vladimir Putin on May 14 to let him know that Finland was applying to join the […]
Friday, June 17th 2022
Is It Time to Rethink the Relationship Between Jews and Elite Universities?:Irit Tratt, Algemeiner, June 1, 2022 Why I Quit Georgetown:Ilya Shapiro, WSJ, June 6, 2022 Two Ivy League Presidents Are Stepping Down. They Leave Different Legacies on Campus Israel Speech and Antisemitism.:Andrew Lapin and Caleb Guedes-Reed, JTA, June 10, 2022 What Princeton Did to […]
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