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Monday, June 27th 2022 / Sunday, July 24th 2022
Editorial Board Jerusalem Post, June 23, 2022 “Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced his so-called “Octopus Doctrine,” “operating against the head of the octopus of terrorism” i.e. Iran, rather than “just against the octopus’s tentacles,” operating in Syria and elsewhere.” The planned visit by US President Joe Biden to the Middle East next month is highlighting shifts in […]
Monday, June 27th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Yoram Ettinger The Ettinger Report, June 23, 2022 “The “Pink Tide” has been a left-leaning, pro-Iran wave among Latin American countries, moving away from the US. Some are anti-US.” Iran’s Ayatollahs – a clear and present danger to the US The Saudi ArabNews reported that “the presence of Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Latin America is […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, June 23rd 2022
How Kaliningrad, Russian Land Ringed By NATO, Is Tangled in Ukraine War: Rachel Pannett and Amy Cheng, Washington Post, June 21, 2022 — The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, hundreds of miles west of the rest of the country, is the latest flash point between Moscow and the rest of Europe as the fallout from Russian President […]
Thursday, June 23rd 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Reid Standish Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, June 9, 2022 “…it’s actually unclear to me if the Russians will even be able to capture all of Luhansk Oblast.” Ukrainian forces are finding it hard to stave off Russian attacks in the center of the key battleground of Syevyerodonetsk, but Moscow still does not control the eastern […]
Stefan Hedlund GIS Reports, June 21, 2022 “With NATO troops present on the ground in Finland, the Russian rear would be dangerously exposed to missile and artillery strikes.” NATO military planners have long been concerned about Russia’s strategic Kaliningrad exclave. Wedged in between Poland and Lithuania, the chunk of Russian territory with fewer than half […]
Taras Fedirko WSJ, May 26, 2022 “If the country withstands this conflict, it will remain militarized in anticipation of future aggression from its hostile neighbor.” “War made the state, and the state made war,” the sociologist Charles Tilly once wrote. Success on the battlefield, he observed, required states to construct the powerful, centralized institutions that […]
Andrew E. Kramer and Jason Horowitz NY Times, May 29, 2022 “It was not clear if they were prepared for the Ukrainian counterattack.” Ukrainian soldiers, seeking to spread Russian forces thin, launched a counteroffensive on Sunday in Kherson, the key southern city that Moscow considered so securely under its thumb that it had introduced the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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