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Friday, August 30th 2024
*** SHABBAT READING Meat or Murder?: Dr. Yitzhag Feder, The Torah.com, July 28, 2013 — Is eating meat murder, or is it a mitzvah? While current Jewish practice might support the latter possibility – at least in the context of Shabbat and holiday meals, an examination of the laws in the Torah might lead in the […]
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Prof. Louis René Beres Israel National News, July 29, 2024 “Israel is a state with no “strategic depth.”” “Into the eternal gloom, into fire, into ice.” Dante, Inferno As matters stand presently, it would not be in Iran’s interest to use NNEMP (non-nuclear EMP) weapons. This is because Israel could mount a higher […]
Prof. Louis René Beres Algemeiner, Apr. 16, 2024 “Even if Iran were not in a condition of active belligerency with the Jewish state, an Israeli preemptive action could still be law-enforcing. Israel, in the fashion of every state under world law, is entitled to existential self-defense.” Though Iran describes its drone and missile […]
Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet The Hill, Aug. 29, 2024 “David Albright reports for the Institute for Science and International Security that Iran could have enough weapons-grade HEU to build three nukes in 10 days, five nuclear weapons in a month and a total of nine in 60 days. Of course, constructing them is […]
Bill Gertz The Washington Times, August 28, 2024 “That detailed IRGC dossier was the ’wrong narrative’ as far as the Obama administration was concerned. It might jeopardize their precious Iran Deal, thus it had to not exist. Therefore, it never existed. Until I went whistleblower right here.” The CIA suppressed secrets from inside Iran during the Obama administration […]
Thursday, August 29th 2024 / Thursday, August 29th 2024
Exclusive: Top US General Says Risk of Broader War Eases a Bit After Israel-Hezbollah Exchange: Phil Stewart, Reuters, Aug. 26, 2024 — The near-term risk of a broader war in the Middle East has eased somewhat after Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah exchanged fire without further escalation but Iran still poses a significant danger as it weighs a […]
Thursday, August 29th 2024
Erfan Fard Israel Hayom, Aug. 26, 2024 “One of the most glaring issues facing the regime is its inability to accurately assess different scenarios and their potential consequences.” In recent years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has faced a series of escalating confrontations with Israel that have left the regime humiliated and increasingly vulnerable. […]
Jonathan Spyer Middle East Forum, Aug. 26, 2024 “Tehran’s desire now to preserve its assets and return the focus to the campaigns of attrition it prefers will have been well noted by both friend and foe.” Hezbollah’s response to the killing of senior official Fuad Shukr, when it finally came, was a more minor event […]
Sheldon Kirshner Times of Israel, Aug. 28, 2024 “Certainly, Iran’s intention is to stoke fear and anxiety among Israelis by slowing its response and capitalizing on speculation about when and how it will respond.” Nearly a month after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran has yet to fulfill its pledge to […]
Nathan Klabin/The Media Line Jerusalem Post, Aug. 23, 2024 “Iran currently has two of the three critical components needed to assemble a nuclear weapon.” Recent developments in Iran’s nuclear ambitions indicate that the Islamic Republic is on the cusp of achieving a nuclear weapon. Many experts estimate that the Iranian regime should already have enough […]
Wednesday, August 28th 2024
NO APOLOGIES Exclusive: Netanyahu at War: Eric Cortellessa, TIME, Aug. 6, 2024 — For the past 10 months, Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to apologize for leaving Israel vulnerable to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack. After the deaths of 1,200 people and the abduction of hundreds more, a traumatized Israeli public heard abject admissions of responsibility from the […]
Walter Russell Mead WSJ, Aug. 26, 2024 “Mr. Netanyahu is the bête noire of the international intelligentsia and the favorite whipping boy of the global press.” Almost a year into Israel’s most challenging conflict since the 1948-49 War of Independence, one thing is increasingly clear about its embattled prime minister. Love him or loathe […]
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