Isranet Daily Briefing
Wednesday, August 21st 2024
RESILIENCE AND TRUST Swords of Iron Survey Results – August 2024: Mora Deitch, Rebecca Meller, Idit Shafran Gittleman and Anat Shapira, INSS, Aug. 21, 2024 — Since the Swords of Iron war outbreak, the Institute for National Security Studies regularly conducts public opinion surveys to examine national resilience and public trust trends. *** Thinking the Thinkable: Israel’s […]
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Yair Lapid Times of Israel, Aug. 19, 2024 “By what moral code should Israel accept rocket barrages from terrorist organizations and rogue states?” Twelve innocent children were killed by Hezbollah at a soccer field in northern Israel. The next day I visited the site. Bloodstained bicycles were still strewn on the ground. I […]
Alex Winston Jerusalem Post, Aug. 20, 2024 “Iran is not in a position to fight Israel. They emphasized that ‘even if we launch an attack, we should immediately consider a ceasefire with international mediators.’” Iran is in no position to fight a long-term war with Israel and even asked the US […]
Col. (res.) Gur Laish BESA, Aug. 19, 2024 “Throughout its short history, Israel has never been able to completely eliminate any of its enemies.” But can Israel eliminate Hamas (and Hezbollah)? Would attempting to do so be worth the practical price of the long war it would require? Would Israel’s society, economy, and […]
Wednesday, August 21st 2024 / Wednesday, August 21st 2024
Frederick Krantz Col. (Res.) Gur Laisch’s “The Long War Phenomenon” (BESA Center) is an important piece, offering a window into the strategic thinking of at least one component of Israel’s military intelligence sector. It explains one rationale for recurrent and seemingly defeatist media references of some Israeli military figures who note that Hamas “cannot […]
Tuesday, August 20th 2024
NO SURPRISE Columbia University Restores Dozens of Pro-Hamas Rioters to Good Standing, New Report Says: Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, Aug. 19, 2024 — Columbia University punished very few of the students who were involved in occupying an administrative building and staging a riot which prompted the university, fearing an outbreak of racial violence, to revoke a Jewish professor’s […]
Adam Kirsch WSJ, Aug. 16, 2024 “For the academic discipline of settler colonial studies, the goal of learning about settler colonialism in America and elsewhere is not simply to understand it, as a historian would, but to dismantle it.” This week Minouche Shafik resigned as president of Columbia University, the latest Ivy League leader to become a […]
Tuesday, August 20th 2024 / Tuesday, August 20th 2024
Martin Kramer Martin Kramer on the Middle East, Aug. 15, 2024 ” How did Columbia go from “two Palestinians” to a “unique concentration” in just seven years?” The resignation of Minouche Shafik, president of Columbia University, is being hailed as a victory all around. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who had called for her resignation back in April, celebrated the […]
Liel Leibovitz City Journal, Aug. 16, 2024 “These twin statements, Armstrong’s and Shafik’s, tell the story of Columbia’s decline better than any in-depth analysis ever could.” Earlier this week, Minouche Shafik, Columbia University’s president, unexpectedly resigned her post. You would think that the departure of an Ivy League leader less than three weeks before the start of […]
Tovia Smith NPR, Aug. 12, 2024 “I could not care less about students busting up some windows when they’re getting degrees revoked for protesting the killing of human beings!” To many pro-Palestinian campus activists, it was a crushing coincidence of the calendar. Just as nationwide protests over the Israel-Hamas war were coming to a crescendo, […]
Samuel M. Edelman Times of Israel, Aug. 19, 2024 “At the heart of this effort are nine lies accepted without question by a small yet vocal group of students and professors on campuses, in high schools, and even middle schools.” What is at the core of the massive antisemitism we have seen happening […]
Monday, August 19th 2024
“Do these judgments suggest a leadership in Jerusalem that believes in the potential net benefits of a measured nuclear retaliation? Or do they suggest a leadership in Jerusalem that believes such a reprisal would bring upon Israel variously intolerable levels of conventional Iranian destruction? And is the leadership in Tehran expectedly rational?” – Louis Rene Beres […]
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