Analysis
Friday, April 4th 2025
Jeremy Sharon and TOI staff Times of Israel, Apr. 3, 2025 “Unfortunately, the issue of leaks from the investigation is very damaging, and complicates it, and nothing has been done about this matter.” The Rishon Lezion Magistrates Court on Thursday extended the detention of the two key suspects in the Qatargate affair for another day […]
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Matti Friedman The Free Press, Apr. 1, 2025 “Improving Qatari credibility in Israeli eyes would have the effect of doing the same where it really matters: in Washington.” Even those accustomed to the roiling wrestling ring that is Israeli politics can’t remember a week like the last one. Multiple aides to Israel’s own prime minister, […]
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Thursday, April 3rd 2025
TURKEY’S LAWFARE? I Am the Turkish President’s Main Challenger. I Was Arrested.: Ekrem Imamoglu, NY Times, Mar. 28, 2025 — Early in the morning on March 19, dozens of armed police officers showed up at my door with a detention order. The scene resembled the capture of a terrorist, not of the elected mayor of […]
Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak JISS, Mar. 30, 2025 “… when İmamoğlu unequivocally condemned Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, explicitly characterizing the group as a terrorist organization.” The pre-dawn arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu—President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s most formidable political rival—cemented March 19 as a pivotal and unforgettable day in Turkish political history, when the […]
Michael Rubin AEI.ORG, Mar. 30, 2025 “The Turkish protestors now fight for the soul of their nation.” Two million Turks have gathered in Istanbul to protest President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to arrest his main rival, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on trumped-up corruption and terror charges. Turks are not stupid; they see through Erdoğan’s cynicism and comment on its […]
Shay Gal Jerusalem Post, Apr. 2, 2025 “Erdogan himself escalated the rhetoric dramatically on March 30, explicitly calling upon Allah to bring “destruction upon Zionist Israel,” a statement described by Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar as explicitly antisemitic and dangerous to regional stability.” A Turkish drone penetrating Israeli airspace is no longer imaginary – by 2025, […]
Yaroslav Trofimov WSJ, Mar. 31, 2025 “European nations simply don’t have the luxury of focusing too closely on Turkey’s situation at home, with an existential threat from Russia and an increasingly hostile Washington.” Turkey’s suppression of democratic opposition would have elicited strong protests from Europe in the past. But now, the worst rift in trans-Atlantic […]
Wednesday, April 2nd 2025
Full Text: In Letter to Cabinet, Bar Says His Firing ‘Entirely Tainted by Conflicts of Interest’: Times of Israel, Mar. 21, 2025 — The following is the full text of Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar’s letter to the cabinet, sent as ministers convened to vote on his ouster on March 20, 2025. Exclusive: The Shin […]
Freddy Eytan Israel Hayom, Mar. 25, 2025 “… the procedure to force the dismissal of the current Attorney General is a purely political act and contrary to the fundamental principle of the separation of powers.” Three days after the dismissal of Shin Beit chief Ronen Bar, the Israeli cabinet voted on a motion of no confidence […]
Dror Eydar Israel Hayom, Mar. 21, 2025 “There is among us a reckless group interested in bringing about chaos and civil war; Ronen Bar played into their hands.” A Fundamental Gap That Must Be Preserved It was cold in the province of Cisalpine Gaul on January 10, 49 BCE, as Julius Caesar’s soldiers marched southward […]
Jason Burke The Guardian, Mar. 21, 2025 “He has stayed on so long, associates and supporters say, to work towards the release of hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza and to protect the Shin Bet from political manoeuvres.” Ronen Bar, the head of Israel’s powerful internal security service, the Shin Bet, may seem an […]
Gadi Taub Tablet, Mar. 31, 2025 “Apparently, the protesters, the left, and much of the press want to save democracy by adopting the totalitarian model where politicians answer to the secret police.” The fight against what Prime Minister Netanyahu has taken to calling Israel’s “deep state” is now in full swing. It reached a climax […]
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