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Tuesday, March 8th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Michael Makovsky Jerusalem Post, Mar. 2, 2022 “… it is on the core Israeli security issues – Iran nuclear talks and weapons delivery – that the Bennett-Lapid approach must be judged.” Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told visiting American Jewish leaders last week that his government’s conciliatory policy toward America was paying off. But the reported imminence of […]
Reuel Marc Gerecht Sapir Journal, Vol. 4, Winter 2022 “Future Western sanctions are unlikely to crack the regime. Donald Trump gave it his best shot.” Can the Islamic Republic of Iran — the radical theocratic regime, that is, as opposed to the nation it tyrannizes — fall by the year 2030? That would be a moonshot for the Jewish […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Monday, March 7th 2022 / Monday, March 7th 2022
Israel PM Meets Putin on Ukraine in ‘Risky’ Diplomatic Gamble: Ben Simon, The Moscow Times, Mar. 5, 2022 — Israel’s premier stepped into the role of mediator Saturday as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensified, holding a three-hour meeting at the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin before calling Ukraine’s president and flying to Berlin. Jewish News You […]
Monday, March 7th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Lawrence Norman WSJ, Mar. 3, 2022 “Russia has more than 1,500 warheads deployed on strategic long-range systems and almost 3,000 in reserve,” Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday ordered the country’s nuclear-deterrence forces to be put on alert in a sign of growing tensions with the West over Ukraine. What kind of nuclear weapons does Russia have? Russia has more […]
Nigel Gould-Davies The Moscow Times, Mar. 1, 2022 “Russia’s aggression – which threatens the wider international order, as well as Western security – enjoys almost no support elsewhere.” After six days, it is clear that Vladimir Putin’s invasion was based on delusions about Ukraine, the West and Russia. Whatever the outcome on the battlefield, Putin […]
Eric Reguly The Globe and Mail, Feb. 27, 2022 “While there is no doubt the SWIFT weapon will inflict a lot of pain, it is unlikely on its own to deliver a death blow to the banks.” The West’s sanctions campaign against Russia reached a new and unprecedented level over the weekend, when the United […]
Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper and Julian E. Barnes NY Times, Mar. 3, 2022 “On the battlefield, the Ukrainian military is conducting a hugely effective and mobile defense, using their knowledge of their home turf to stymie Russian forces on multiple fronts…” Ukraine’s soldiers have blown up bridges to halt advancing Russian ground troops. Its pilots […]
Friday, March 4th 2022
Ukraine’s Zelensky to World’s Jews: ‘Do Not Remain Silent Right Now’: Phillisa Cramer, JTA, Mar. 2, 2022 — The morning after Russian bombs fell at the site of a 1941 massacre of Ukrainian Jews, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the world’s Jews to speak out about what is happening in his country. What is […]
Friday, March 4th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Ksenia Svetlova Tablet, Mar. 1, 2022 “While Moscow ratchets up military and economic pressure on Ukraine, many in Israel fear that Moscow’s next move will happen in the Middle East—where Moscow is formally aligned with Israel’s worst enemies.” As Russia pounds Ukrainian cities and flaunts its nuclear weapons, there is little doubt that the implications […]
Asli Aiydintashas, Julien Barnes-Dacey, and Cinzia Bianco European Council on Foreign Relations, Feb. 10, 2022 “… rising tensions between the West and Russia will likely damage regional stabilisation efforts, particularly in Libya and Syria.” Ukraine’s fate hangs in the balance. Renewed international diplomacy strengthens hopes for a negotiated settlement, but the spectre of all-out war […]
Paul Iddon Forbes, Feb. 13, 2022 “What could this, if anything, potentially mean for foreign air forces that routinely carry out operations in Syrian airspace? What is Russia trying to demonstrate or achieve?” In late January, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Russian and Syrian warplanes had conducted joint patrols along the Golan Heights and […]
Ambassador William Roebuck The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, Feb. 25, 2022 “It also provides hints of the type of challenges Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to make to the U.S.-led, rules-based international system that many countries, including in the Gulf, have benefited from.” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited Syria February 15 to oversee Ukraine-related […]
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