Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, May 28th 2024

WHY IT MATTERS ICC Prosecutor Requests Arrest Warrants for Israeli Leaders:  Jonathan Ruhe and Yoni Tobin, JINSA, May 21, 2024 — On May 20, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan announced that he requested warrants for the arrests of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, which, if issued by the court’s […]

Analysis

Tuesday, May 28th 2024

Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, May 23, 2024 “The mainstreaming of anti-Zionist propaganda that denies rights to Jews no one would think of denying to anyone else comes with a cost both for Israel and the Diaspora.”   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s domestic and American political opponents are not all cheering the decision of the chief […]

Analysis

Tuesday, May 28th 2024

Dror Eylar Israel Hayom, May 26, 2024 “The West is suffering from an immense post-biblical void. … They have removed the Bible from the curriculum of the US and Europe, and the outcome is that they are simply falling apart at the seams internally and too weak to deal with their external threats.” 1.  Justice seeks […]

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Tuesday, May 28th 2024

Kyle Orton Kyle Orton.com, May 20, 2024 “The ICC is constituted as an international institution that claims an authority superseding national governments, yet the eminences at its helm answer only to the thoughts in their own minds and those of their colleagues.” In the summer of 1998, shortly after the Rome Statute establishing the International […]

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Tuesday, May 28th 2024

Melanie Phillips Substack, May 27, 2024 “Khan has revealed himself to be a slavish product of the Western intelligentsia, which has embraced moral and cultural relativism and no longer recognizes the distinction between right and wrong, good and evil, victim and victimizer.” In a revealing Sunday Times (£) interview yesterday with the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, May 27th 2024

CAMPUS EVOLUTION Podcast: Ruth Wisse on the Explosion of Anti-Israel Protests on Campus:  Mosaic, May 3, 2024   My Message to Columbia’s Sane Students:  Douglas Murray, The Spectator, May 25, 2024 — There are several frustrating things about American college campuses, just one of which is the sheer volume of column inches they take up. Whenever an American campus […]

Analysis

Monday, May 27th 2024

Abe Greenwald Commentary Magazine, June 2024 “The union of radical leftism and jihadism on display across American campuses is a marriage born of necessity—and of love.”   In April, a long-haired flower child on the campus of Princeton University was captured on camera. The picture, posted on social media, shows him sitting on his guitar […]

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Monday, May 27th 2024

Peter Berkowitz Real Clear Politics, May 26, 2024 “By damaging Israel, which they regard as an outpost of Western imperialism in the Middle East, they strive to weaken and fundamentally transform the United States.”   Following Hamas’ bloodthirsty Oct. 7 assault on Israel’s southern border communities, woke leftists and jihad enthusiasts on campuses and beyond […]

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Monday, May 27th 2024

Einat Wilf Sapir Journal, Vol. 12, Winter 2024   “The words were inverted to keep the war alive, deprive the Jewish state of legitimacy, and maintain a constant question mark over the Jewish state’s very existence.”   Adi Schwartz and I had just exited another frustrating meeting with a smug European diplomat. Turning to an […]

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Monday, May 27th 2024

Giulio Meotti Israel National News, May 24, 2024  “They opened the gates of hell and justified everything.”   “Strange Bedfellows” is not just a 1964 film starring Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida. In politics and war they are called “bedfellows”, but the radical left’s love affair with Islamic fanatics is the strangest couple that ever […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, May 24th 2024

SHABBAT READING Jeremiah Buys Land in Prison, Symbolizing a Future Redemption:  Dr. Anathea Portier-Young, The Torah.com, May 14, 2020 — Redeeming His Cousin’s Land. Set during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, Jeremiah 32 tells the story of how the prophet gives financial assistance to his cousin. The story begins with Jeremiah receiving a message from God even […]

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Friday, May 24th 2024

Andrew Fox Tablet, May 22, 2024 “The IDF has absolutely no intention of using the clear-hold-build COIN tactics the West tried in Afghanistan and Iraq. Those tactics were an unmitigated disaster in both campaigns, which ended in humiliating defeats at the hands of technologically inferior armies.” As the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducts another assault […]