Analysis
Tuesday, May 20th 2025 / Tuesday, May 20th 2025
Alan Dershowitz and Andrew Stein Gatestone Institute, May 20, 2025 “Ignorance of the hypothetical future is often the reason for failure to act in the present. That is the dilemma of failing to take preventive military action.” Dear Mr. President, You are about to make a decision for which you will be remembered by history. […]
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Friday, May 16th 2025
SHABBAT READING: Whom May a Kohen Gadol Marry?: Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin, The Torah.com, May 4, 2015 — The beginning of Parashat Emor (Lev 21:1-15) outlines restrictions on kohanim (priests). The questions of whom they may marry and what kind of contact they may have with the dead are still relevant to the rules observed today. These rules contain two […]
Moshe Phillips JNS, Apr. 22, 2025 “More and more Israelis are acknowledging a painful reality: Whether they support Fatah or Hamas, Palestinians overwhelmingly agree that the Jewish state must be eliminated.” April 22, 2025, may be remembered as a turning point in the history of Israeli public diplomacy—and rightly so. On that day, the […]
Ibrahim Eid Dalalsha, Shira Efron, Jess Manville, and Gabriel Epstein Israel Policy Forum, Mar. 2025 “… two parallel reform efforts must unfold in tandem: enhancing day-to-day governance and service delivery under the PA, and deeper political reforms within the PLO, Fatah alongside developing an election horizon.” The October 7 atrocities and the subsequent Gaza […]
Daniel Greenfield Front Page, May 14, 2025 “It’s hard to imagine a name more closely associated with foreign invaders than ‘Palestinians’.” Even though the Jewish history in the land of Israel is one of the most popular stories of mankind and was incorporated into the religious beliefs of over half the human race, it’s […]
Yohanan Tzoreff INSS Insight No. 1982, May 15, 2025 “In Abbas’s view, the war has exposed Hamas as out of touch with today’s strategic realities and incapable of managing the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.” The PLO Central Council approved the appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh as deputy chairman of the PLO during a session held on April […]
Thursday, May 15th 2025
BIG BANG Full Replay: President Trump Speaks to US-Saudi Investment Forum in Riyadh: Real Clear Politics, May 13, 2025 — President Donald Trump plans to deliver remarks at a U.S.-Saudi “investment forum” in Riyadh, where Middle Eastern businesses are pledging $600 billion to invest in a series of deals in the U.S. *** Forget Democracy […]
Lily Lynch Unherd, May 15, 2025 “Trump’s new Syria policy seems to put him at odds with top members of his own team.” In a remarkable speech before a friendly audience in Riyadh on Tuesday, President Trump assailed the long history of “Western intervention” in the Middle East. He lambasted the neocons, hawks and […]
Shachar Kleilman Israel Hayom, May 12, 2025 “Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman promised Palestinian Authority Deputy Chairman Hussein al-Sheikh that there would be no normalization with Israel without ending the war in Gaza and a diplomatic process to establish a Palestinian state.” President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East comes amid long-term changes in […]
Batya Ungar-Sargon The Free Press, May 14, 2025 “Trump’s commitment to the Jewish state is genuinely held and runs deep, but the Israeli right ought not seek to force a choice between his America First, peace through strength agenda and their own aims. It would be foolish to alienate the president at this moment.” […]
Hugh Cameron Newsweek, May 14, 2025 “The U.S.-Saudi relationship has been a bedrock of security and prosperity.” President Donald Trump‘s trip to Saudi Arabia earlier culminated in a $600-billion investment deal with the Kingdom that the administration is touting as a historic milestone for both countries. While certain details of what is included in the […]
Wednesday, May 14th 2025
A Pogrom Is Brewing in Canada: Casey Babb, The Free Press, May 7, 2025 Waving Dead Babies in the Faces of Jews Is Blood Libel: Brendan O’Neill, National Post, May 13, 2025 ‘You Can’t be Openly Jewish at TMU’: Jewish Students at Toronto Metropolitan University say they’re Now Isolated, Harassed: Ari David Blaff, National […]
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