Analysis

Tuesday, April 9th 2024

Annie Grayer CNN, Mar. 29, 2024 “It’s really turned into two separate camps. The more you try and carve out a middle, the more neither camp really feels like home.” A month into the raging war between Israel and Hamas, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland was facing a moral dilemma. As a Jewish lawmaker, […]

Analysis

Tuesday, April 9th 2024 / Tuesday, April 9th 2024

Will Marshall, The Hill, Mar. 22, 2024 “Ocasio-Cortez was right. Accusing the victims of history’s worst genocide of trying to exterminate Palestinians is a new form of antisemitism likely to boomerang on the activist left.” The torrent of antisemitism let loose by student protests against the war in Gaza is a national embarrassment, but it […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, April 8th 2024

ENOUGH BLAME TO GO AROUND WATCH:  ‘A Punch to the Gut’: The US Failure to Defend Israel at UN:  The Quad, JNS TV, Mar. 25, 2024 _________________________________________________________________ Joe Biden Needs A ‘Come to Jesus’ Moment:  Frederick Krantz, JNS, Apr. 1, 2024 The Obama and Biden Administrations’ Betrayal of America’s Closest Ally in the Middle East: Israel:  Majid Rafizadeh, Gatestone Institute, […]

Analysis

Monday, April 8th 2024

Frederick Krantz JNS, Apr. 1, 2024 “While threatening to decrease military supplies to Israel, Biden allowed Iran to continue exporting billions of dollars’ worth of oil to China.”   In a recent Foreign Affairs article, veteran U.S. Middle East envoy Dennis Ross effectively presented the Biden administration’s “vision” for the resolution of the Gaza crisis in the […]

Analysis

Monday, April 8th 2024

Majid Rafizadeh Gatestone Institute, Apr. 6, 2024 “By failing to condemn Hamas and failing to condition a ceasefire on the release of hostages, the Biden administration handed Hamas and other terrorist groups a monumental diplomatic victory.”   The Biden administration persists in granting victories to Hamas and its primary supporters, Qatar and Iran, and in […]

Analysis

Monday, April 8th 2024

Michael Goodwin NY Post, Apr. 6, 2024 “In the past month the Biden Administration and Democratic leaders in Congress have leveled more criticism against the Democratically elected government of Israel than against the ruthless dictators of Russia (Putin), North Korea (Kim) Turkey (Erdogan), Venezuela (Maduro), Iran (Khamenei), Syria (Assad) and Hamas (Sinwar) COMBINED. Let that […]

Analysis

Monday, April 8th 2024

Matthew Continetti Washington Free Beacon, Apr. 4, 2024 “You cannot win this war,” Andrés wrote, “by starving an entire population.” The accusation is grotesque. And stupid. If “starving an entire population” were Israel’s policy, what was World Central Kitchen doing in Gaza in the first place?”   Six months. That’s how long it took for […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, April 5th 2024

Citation de la Semaine:  « Le président Herzog a exprimé sa profonde tristesse et ses sincères excuses pour la perte tragique des membres du personnel du WCK dans la bande de Gaza la nuit dernière, et a envoyé ses condoléances à leurs familles et à leurs proches.   Le président a réitéré l’engagement d’Israël de garantir […]

Analysis

Friday, April 5th 2024

J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, Apr. 2, 2024 “… launching separate food-aid efforts in Gaza has been seen all along as a way of gaining leverage for outside actors over IDF ops.” This will be two short pings.  The set-up is that PM Netanyahu has acknowledged the IDF role in the strike on 1 April, in […]

Analysis

Friday, April 5th 2024

Brendan O’Neill The Spectator, Apr. 3, 2024 “What is striking about Israel’s mistake is that it is not being treated as ‘friendly fire’ at all.”   David Cameron has got some front. The Foreign Secretary is haranguing Israel over its tragic unintentional killing of seven aid workers in Gaza, and yet he oversaw a war […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, April 5th 2024 / Friday, April 5th 2024

  SHABBAT READING  The Cause of Nadav and Avihu’s Death: Incense Smoke?:  Dr. Sheila Tuller Keiter, The Torah.com, Mar. 27, 2024 — On the eighth day of the dedication of the Tabernacle, fire descends from YHWH and consumes the sacrifice (Lev 9:24), signaling YHWH’s approval of all that has transpired and marking His tangible dwelling in the midst […]

Analysis

Friday, April 5th 2024

Gadi Taub Tablet, Apr. 3, 2024 “The PA, the White House maintains, is a crucial partner in the fight against terrorism—the same PA that, in reality, glorifies and incentivizes terrorism.”   Lital Shemesh, a TV news anchor on Israel’s Channel 14, knows terror almost firsthand. Last August, her life was suddenly transformed. “I was at home […]