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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Friday, April 5th 2024

Dror Eydar Israel Hayom, Mar. 29, 2024 “We will never belong to the family of nations, even if our contribution to humanity is priceless.” Israel has always stood on its own. In our long history, we have encountered good people and nations who helped us for a while, a century or two, until they disappeared […]

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Thursday, April 4th 2024 / Thursday, April 4th 2024

IN HIS OWN WORDS   Schumer Has Crossed a Red Line Over Israel:  Joe Lieberman, WSJ, Mar. 20, 2024 — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last Thursday crossed a political red line that had never before been breached by a leader of his stature and never should be again.   LISTEN:  Unorthodox:  Checks and Balances, Ep. 134, Tablet, May 3, […]

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Thursday, April 4th 2024

Alan M. Dershowitz WSJ, Mar. 28, 2024 “We are here to say that you can no longer simply count on our vote just because Jews traditionally have voted Democratic. We are here to say you must earn our vote.”   Hours before his fatal fall on Tuesday, former Sen. Joseph Lieberman put his final touches on a statement […]

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Thursday, April 4th 2024 / Thursday, April 4th 2024

Gabby Deutsch Jewish Insider, Mar. 29, 2024   “The good news is that Sen. Lieberman will be the best boss you will have in your career and the bad news is that you will never have another boss as good as him.”   As the first Jewish person on a major party presidential ticket, Joe […]

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Thursday, April 4th 2024

Rabbi Ethan Tucker/JTA Jerusalem Post, Apr. 3, 2024   “Nothing was done except for principle, sometimes to his political benefit, sometimes not. You knew where he stood, and based on where he stood, you knew how he would respond.”   How do we live a life of principle and integrity, without closing ourselves off from […]

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Thursday, April 4th 2024

Cliff Smith Deseret News, Apr. 1, 2024   “Lieberman, unlike the rest, chose to expend his capital, against his own political self-interest, to win the war, long after the fateful choice to invade had been made.”   A truly great leader is a person who, when in a position to affect important events, makes the […]

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Wednesday, April 3rd 2024 / Wednesday, April 3rd 2024

Will Israel’s Government Collapse Due to the IDF Haredi Draft Crisis? – Analysis:  Eliav Breuer, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 1, 2024 — The political ramifications of the High Court of Justice’s ruling on Thursday – that beginning on April 1 the state can no longer refrain from drafting haredi men into the IDF, and that state funding to […]