Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, May 14th 2024

SCALED BACK CELEBRATIONS Israel Marks 76th Independence Day as Nation Remembers Oct. 7:  ILH staff, Israel Hayom, May 13, 2024 — Israel transitioned somberly from its annual Memorial Day commemorating fallen soldiers and civilian victims of violence to celebrate its 76th year of independence on Monday, with the traditional Torch-Lighting Ceremony.   ____________________________________________________ Secret Hamas Files Show How It Spied […]

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Tuesday, May 14th 2024

Caroline B. Glick JNS, May 10, 2024   “On May 4, Arab media outlets reported that behind Israel’s back, Burns had agreed to serve as guarantor that Israel will not renew its combat operations in Gaza in the event that a temporary ceasefire is enacted during the course of a hostage release.”   Delegations to the […]

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Tuesday, May 14th 2024 / Tuesday, May 14th 2024

Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, May 12, 2024   “… the leak appears designed for public relations to try to corner Israel into looking unreasonable if it wants to continue into Rafah.”   Rafah was never the key to resolving the war and peace issues between the Israeli government, the IDF, Hamas, and the US. But […]

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Tuesday, May 14th 2024 / Tuesday, May 14th 2024

Natan Galula Times of Israel, Apr. 24, 2024   “I made a decision to burn this evil down to ashes.”   One of the most passionate voices in support of a large-scale Israel Defense Force operation to clear Hamas from its last major stronghold in the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city of Rafah comes from a […]

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Tuesday, May 14th 2024 / Tuesday, May 14th 2024

Adam Rasgon and Ronen Bergman NY Times, May 13, 2024   “If you’re not with them, you become an atheist, an infidel and a sinner.”   The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, May 13th 2024 / Monday, May 13th 2024

  REMEMBRANCE WATCH:  Yom HaZikaron, the Day of National Remembrance with Maj. Michal, Casualty Officer: FIDF, May 12, 2024 ABANDONING ISRAEL  WATCH:  The Most Explosive Response to Biden’s Betrayal of Israel:  Phil Schneider, Israel Unwired, Fox News, May 12, 2024 [Mark Levin explodes on Biden’s Betrayal of Israel] –– Joe Biden and the Democrats around him see a major problem […]

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Monday, May 13th 2024

Analysis

Monday, May 13th 2024

Douglas Murray NY Post, May 8, 2024 “Perhaps the students that we see at these destroyed universities, perhaps they just need a dose of reality someday.”   Adapted from Douglas Murray‘s speech Monday as The Post columnist accepted the Manhattan Institute’s Alexander Hamilton Award. I’ve never seen as much of the best and the worst of […]

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Monday, May 13th 2024

Gadi Taub Tablet, May 7, 2024 “What all of these shockingly openly subversive moves against a key U.S. military ally have so far not produced is the desired result—a subservient government run by the would-be King Benny.”   In the eyes of the Biden administration, Hamas is the smaller problem. The bigger problem is Benjamin […]

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Monday, May 13th 2024

Seth Mandel Commentary, May 9, 2024 “To abandon that fight is to surrender to the barbarians at the gate, ensuring the post-Biden transition is not only imminent and irreversible (in the near term, at least) but chaotic, authoritarian, and baldly anti-Semitic.”   Welcome to the post-presidency of Joe Biden. He’s still in the big chair, […]

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Monday, May 13th 2024

Brendan O’Neill Spiked, May 9, 2024 “Biden’s intervention is the most striking – and unforgivable.”   Imagine if, in 2017, the world told the Kurds to hold off from attacking Raqqa. Imagine if, following their valiant liberation of 2,000 square miles of Syrian territory from the barbaric diktat of the Islamic State, the Kurdish-led forces were told […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, May 10th 2024

SHABBAT READING   An Inner-Biblical Elaboration of the Decalogue:  Prof. Edward L. Greenstein, TheTorah.com, May 11, 2016 — In the late Second Temple period, the Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, was as central to Jewish worship as the Shema (Deut 6:4-9) and preceded it in the morning prayers of the priests, prior to their making the daily (Tamid) sacrifice in the […]