Analysis
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 […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, February 24th 2022 / Thursday, February 24th 2022
Putin Announces ‘Military Operation’ in Ukraine; Explosions Reported in Kyiv: Isaac Schorr, National Review, Feb. 23, 2022 — Russian president Vladimir Putin announced early Thursday morning local time that his government has resolved “to launch a special military operation” aimed at the “demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine,” heralding the start of a land war on […]
Thursday, February 24th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Feb. 22, 2022 “Russia is exploiting the situation that it helped create in 2014 by now creating a legal fiction for sending troops into these areas.” Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a long and important speech on February 21 as tensions with the US over Ukraine reached new heights. While […]
J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, Feb. 24, 2022 “But it’s clear he expects no meaningful pushback from the U.S. this time. He isn’t trying to game expectations at this point; he’s just on the move, and is probably doing even more than necessary to achieve his goal, and thus make a point.” This will be […]
Fraser Myers Spiked, Feb. 22, 2022 “… attempts to find a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis were never going to come easy – not least because Biden and Co had gone to such lengths to demonise Russia and Putin, often for puerile partisan reasons, over the past few years.” The ‘adults are back in […]
Paul Kennedy WSJ, Jan. 27, 2022 “History suggests that sanctions simply don’t work if they are “soft” sanctions, a tap on the wrist meant to show disapproval rather than to punish. Sanctions don’t work if there are huge financial or commercial loopholes to the economic cordon that is meant to be being imposed. Sanctions don’t […]
Wednesday, February 23rd 2022 / Wednesday, February 23rd 2022
MEDIA-OCRITIES OF THE WEEK Complacent Canada is Changing — And Our Politicians Haven’t a Clue: Kelly McParland, National Post, Feb. 20, 2022“New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh. . .announced his willingness to grant the government the extraordinary powers it sought [through its Emergencies Act], to clear the laneways around Wellington Street, but stipulated they must never be […]
Analysis Communiqués
Wednesday, February 23rd 2022
La Commission de sélection a nommé quatre magistrats, dont deux femmes ; pour le ministre de la Justice, ces désignations représentent différentes “opinions, sexes et origines” Par TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF et AFP21 février 2022, 16:04Mis à jour : 22 février 2022, 08:00 https://fr.timesofisrael.com/cour-supreme-nominations-inedites-dun-juge-arabe-et-dune-juge-dorigine-sepharade/ La Commission de sélection des juges s’est réunie lundi pour désigner quatre nouveaux juges […]
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