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Daily Briefing: BIDEN PROPOSES CEASEFIRE DEAL EMPOWERING HAMAS

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SHABBAT READING Liminal Space:  BAMIDBAR • 5771, 5784, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — In English, the book we begin this week is called Numbers, and for an obvious reason. It begins with a census, and there is even a second count toward the end of the book. On this view, the central theme of the book is demography. […]

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Who Can Declare Victory If a Ceasefire Would Leave Hamas in Power? – Analysis

Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, June 1, 2024 “The current ceasefire plan is a plan to keep Hamas in power. The result will be that Hamas will return to running most of Gaza in the coming years and the reconstruction effort will likely empower Hamas as it has in the past.”   US President Joe […]

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Don’t Blame Israel First

Daniel Henninger WSJ, June 5, 2024 “Rarely discussed, because it is so incredible, is the assumption that any successor Israeli government would allow the Sinwar-led Hamas to emerge intact, in Gaza, with whatever weaponry it has left.” As reports come out of the Biden administration about cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas, bear in mind […]

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Does Biden Reject Israel’s Right to Self-Defense?

Caroline Glick JNS, May 31, 2024 “… by undermining Israel’s operation in Rafah, the administration is protecting Hamas from destruction while effectively criminalizing Israel’s war to protect itself from further aggression against Hamas.” The most basic function of all governments is to provide for the collective defense of the governed. The most basic foundation of […]

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Biden’s Mixed Messaging on Israel Confuses Friends and Foes Alike

Gabby Deutch Jewish Insider, June 5, 2024 “… his frequent criticism of Israel’s military tactics does not go far enough to appease left-wing Democrats unhappy with Biden’s overall support for Israel; meanwhile, his outreach to the anti-Israel segment of the party irritates Jewish voters and pro-Israel moderates.” On Tuesday morning, Time magazine published the full transcript of its recent Oval […]

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Daily Briefing: REMEMBERING D-DAY, WITH GRATITUDE

YOM YERUSHALAYIM: VICTORY PRESERVED WATCH:  Jerusalem of Gold — Yerushalayim Shel Zahav — André Rieu, Tel Aviv, Israel 2018 – HD VERSION — There are video’s of this performance taken live from the audience. This is a recording of this part of the show, which was broadcasted on TV in The Netherlands. Too beautiful not to share. […]

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The Truth about D-Day, 80 Years On

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James Woudhuysen Spiked, June 2, 2024 “Nazism, then, was not just beaten by America’s GDP. It was also undone by its own totalitarianism. Conversely, democracy, though severely constrained by the war, benefitted the Allies.” Shortly after midnight on 6 June 1944, Operation Neptune, otherwise known as D-Day, began. Thousands upon thousands of planes and ships bombed […]

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It’s the Invasion!  It’s D-Day!  At Last!

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Tu Thanh Ha Globe And Mail, June 5, 2024 “In the morning, he could see bodies around him. He wanted to numb his pain with morphine but, with only one uninjured hand, he tried to open the syrette with his teeth and spilled its content.” Eighteen Halifax heavy bombers left their base in Yorkshire about […]

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How D-Day Saved Europe, and My Family from the Nazis

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Gerard Leval Jerusalem Post, June 5, 2024 “Without the ultimate sacrifice of thousands of Americans and the liberation that those soldiers made possible, my grandparents, my mother and my uncle would likely have been deported to Auschwitz and certain death.” Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied landings along the Normandy coast during World […]

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Une proposition de trêve qui veut dire différentes choses pour différentes personnes

Citation de la semaine:  « chaque mort de civil était une tragédie, mais que pour le Hamas, c’était une stratégie: “Ils utilisent sciemment les civils comme des boucliers humains. Nous avons envoyé des milliers d’affiches. Nous faisons tout pour évacuer les civils des zones de conflit, et le Hamas fait tout pour les laisser dans […]

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The Last WWII Vets Converge on Normandy for D-Day and their Fallen Friends

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John Leicester and Sylvie Corbet and Danica Kirka KCen, June 4, 2024 “You don’t want other people to go through the same thing. Because I’ve seen a lot of these boys that never even made the beach, believe me. And we were all 18, 19 years old.” Under their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, […]

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IS CHINA AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO ISRAEL?

MAKING THE CASE   WATCH:  Webinar | The CCP’s Invasion of Israel: How Xi Set Fire to the Middle East – and Why:  Committee on the Present Dangers of China, May 27, 2024 — Spain, Ireland and Norway formally recognized a non-existent state of “Palestine” today. They thus indulged in the sort of European virtue-signaling that has […]

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