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Tuesday, March 1st 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Andrew Koss Mosaic, Feb. 28, 2022 “Last year, Kyiv reportedly requested access to its vaunted Iron Dome missile-defense system, which Israel has so far refused to share.” The eyes of the world are on Ukraine. Its borders have been overrun by a long-awaited Russian offensive, and its citizens are fighting for their freedom. Perhaps because […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Monday, February 28th 2022 / Monday, February 28th 2022
From Jewish Comedian to Wartime Leader: Volodymyr Zelensky’s Unlikely Journey: Associated Press, United With Israel, Feb. 27, 2022 — When Volodymyr Zelensky was growing up in southeastern Ukraine, his Jewish family spoke Russian and his father once forbade the younger Zelensky from going abroad to study in Israel. Ukraine: The Perpetual Battleground: Jose Miguel Alonso-Trabanco, […]
Monday, February 28th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Ben Cohen JNS, Feb. 25, 2022 “Under the current political regime, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories is out of fashion,” wrote author, Ilya Yablokov.” Jews and dictators normally don’t get along. History is replete with examples of strongmen who reviled the Jewish communities in their midst. Many of their names spring easily to mind, like Hitler, […]
Lawrence Freedman Samf.Substack, Feb. 27, 2022 “A high human and strategic price is now being paid by Moscow for some haphazard and arrogant planning, and for failing to think through the worst case as well as the best.” In my previous post I explained why I thought that this war had begun badly for Russia […]
Lee Smith Tablet, Feb. 25, 2022 “… it was Americans that put them in harm’s way by using their country as a weapon, first against Russia and then against each other, with little consideration for the Ukrainian people who are now paying the price for America’s folly.” Russian President Vladimir Putin chose this war, Joe […]
Jose Miguel Alonso-Trabanco Geopolitical Monitor, Feb. 24, 2022 “…[Russia’s invasion of Ukraine] marks (after decades of intellectual triumphalism) the fateful return of realpolitik as an interpretative prism to understand the field of international relations.” Bilateral relations between Russia and Ukraine have been confrontational since 2014, when the civil unrest triggered by the Euromaidan movement managed […]
Friday, February 25th 2022
A Graphical Comparison of Russian and Ukrainian Military Forces: Chris Martin, Defense News, Feb. 24, 2022 — In the early morning of Feb. 24, Russia began a fresh invasion of Ukraine. Data from a recent report compares the military forces of the two countries and provides details on the Russian-backed separatist forces in Donetsk and Luhansk. Why […]
Friday, February 25th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Feb. 24, 2022 “Russian President Vladimir Putin likely took some cues from the 1990s, but also wants to use a new Russian method of war.” Russia began its assault on Ukraine on Thursday morning by using cruise missiles. Reports showed video of the relatively slow missiles flying low to the ground, and […]
Jim Geraghty National Review, Feb. 24, 2022 “We are witnessing, on our television screens and through the web, the largest land war in Europe since 1945, an unprovoked attack by an autocratic superpower with nuclear weapons against a flawed but independent democracy that had committed no crime or provocation.” On the menu today: Russia has […]
Eldad Shavit, Udi Dekel, and Anat Kurz INSS, Feb. 23, 2022 “… it is clear that the military and political developments, including the arrangements that will subsequently be determined, will have an impact on the risks and opportunities facing countries in the Middle East.” The international system is preparing for the possibility that for the […]
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness, Feb. 23, 2022 For all his caginess, dissimulation, and opportunism, Vladimir Putin is more or less predictable. Putin’s aims? The Russian president’s two-decade dilemma has been how to reclaim the prestige and power of the former Soviet Union—but with only 75 percent of his country’s former territory and 140 million […]
Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, February 25th 2022 / Thursday, February 24th 2022
Citation de la semaine: “Ne frappe pas à la porte d’un autre, si tu ne veux pas qu’on frappe à la tienne.” Proverbe turc Le président d’Israël prévoit un rare voyage en Turquie Le Figaro avec AFP, 15/02/2022 Erdogan: La Turquie et Israël peuvent travailler ensemble pour apporter du gaz en Europe arabobserver.com, 5 février […]
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