Analysis
Friday, August 5th 2022
Meir Y. Soloveitchik Commentary, June 2022 On May 6, 2022, Israel’s Independence Day, the Temple Mount was opened to Jews for the first time in 11 days. Jewish visitors, calmly and proudly walking into the sacred space, were hurried through the site by police. Their efforts to sing the national anthem and hoist the Israeli […]
Friday, August 5th 2022 / Friday, August 5th 2022
Prof. Edward L. Greenstein The Torah.com, July 16, 2021 Lament is a widespread literary form of expression—from ancient to modern times, from East to West, chanted and declaimed.[1] Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), the great scholar of Jewish mysticism, characterizes lament as tragic discourse that finds expression not in language but in silence: [L]ament is precisely the […]
Yosef Lindell Lehrhaus, July 14, 2021 Eli Tziyon, with its haunting dirge-like melody, signals the end of kinnot on Tishah Be-Av morning in the Ashkenazic tradition. The kinnah seems a fitting conclusion. It sums up the misery of the day, chronicling why Zion laments—the exile of its people, the cessation of the sacrifices, the loss of life, the […]
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Thursday, August 4th 2022 / Thursday, August 4th 2022
Zawahiri appeared on his balcony. The CIA was ready to kill him.: Shane Harris, Washington Post, Aug. 2, 2022 Opinion: What Ayman al-Zawahiri’s death means for al-Qaida’s future: Colin P. Clarke, NPR, Aug. 2, 2022 Ayman al-Zawahiri Was an Influential Figure of Modern Jihad: Jared Malsin and Nancy A. Youssef, WSJ, Aug. 1, 2022 The […]
Shane Harris Washington Post, Aug. 2, 2022 Ayman al-Zawahiri, the 71-year-old leader of al-Qaeda, stepped onto the third-floor balcony of his house in an exclusive neighborhood of Kabul around 6:15 a.m. Sunday. He usually appeared in the morning, shortly after daybreak. Sometimes he read. He was always alone. And the CIA was watching. After […]
Colin P. Clarke NPR, Aug. 2, 2022 After hunting for him for 21 years, U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri over the weekend with a drone strike targeting him at a safe house in Kabul, Afghanistan. Zawahiri had led al-Qaida since May 2011, when U.S. special operations forces killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. While […]
Jared Malsin and Nancy A. Youssef WSJ, Aug. 1, 2022 Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, a founding member of the jihadist movement and a key strategist behind a decadeslong campaign of terror and the deadliest strike on U.S. soil on Sept. 11, 2001, died in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul on July 31, the […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Aug. 2, 2022 The US finally found and killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda. He was found on Sunday in the Afghan capital of Kabul, where he was killed in a counter-terrorism operation carried out by the CIA, the BBC reported. “Since the United States delivered justice to [Osama] bin […]
Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 / Wednesday, August 3rd 2022
WEEKLY QUOTES “I had walked them through the peace proposal and given [Arab diplomats] my word that Trump would present a dignified and balanced proposal – one that required compromises on both sides. But that certainly wasn’t the deal Bibi was describing.” – Trump son-in-law and former presidential advisor Jared Kushner in book “Breaking History: A White House Memoir” […]
Tuesday, August 2nd 2022
Israeli Journalist Breaches Mecca How did a Jewish Journalist Get into ‘Mecca’? Where No Non-Muslim Can Go: News Track, Includes video, July 21, 2022 — Islamic countries around the world consider Israel as their enemy. But now a Jewish journalist from Israel has done something that can create a stir in Muslim […]
Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 / Tuesday, August 2nd 2022
Melanie Phillips Algemeiner, July 29, 2022 “The stunt reveals a shallowness by these broadcasters not just towards Israel’s interests in normalizing with Saudi Arabia but also towards any sense of the sacred.” We are accustomed to the concept of wars being waged in the name of religion. There’s less acknowledgment of the war being […]
Harold Rhode Dr. Rich Swier, July 25, 2022 “Tamari clearly had fun sneaking into Mecca. From a Muslim perspective, he and by extension all of Israel have undermined the Saudi regime.” The Saudis authorized a group of Israeli reporters to come to Saudi Arabia to cover President Joe Biden’s visit last week. This was clearly another […]
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