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Tuesday, March 12th 2024 / Monday, March 11th 2024

Dario Sabaghi The New Arab, Mar. 11, 2024 “The US has never faced a direct challenge from an Israeli prime minister like at this time. It had conflicts with other Israeli prime ministers […] but they never put the core issues of the Israeli link to Washington at stake like Netanyahu.” Last week’s visit by […]

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Tuesday, March 12th 2024 / Monday, March 11th 2024

Tovah Lazaroff Jerusalem Post, Mar. 11, 2024 “We have made clear” both privately and publicly “that it is our judgment that they can not and should not go into Rafah without a humanitarian assistance plan that is credible and that they can actually implement.” An IDF military operation in Gaza’s Rafah is a necessity to […]

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Tuesday, March 12th 2024 / Monday, March 11th 2024

Editorial WSJ, Mar. 11, 2024 “Why agree to a hostage swap if their current strategy is driving a wedge between Israel and the U.S.?’   President Biden likes to say that no President has been a better friend to Israel, but of late he doesn’t sound like it. He beat up Israel’s leaders in his […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, March 11th 2024

Citation de la semaine:  ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ « La tradition canadienne veut que l’on défende ce qui est juste, peu importe que cela soit populaire ou non. Le soutien apporté aujourd’hui à l’État juif d’Israël est plus qu’un impératif moral. Il revêt également une importance stratégique et correspond à nos propres intérêts à long terme ».  L’ancien […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, March 11th 2024

  AN OLD PSYCHOSIS Haman’s Antisemitism: What Did He Not Like About the Jews?:  Rabbi Marty Lokshin, The Torah.com, May 8, 2017 — Modern Jews often claim that antisemitism[ is as old as the Jewish nation. In 2006, the Israeli journalist and author, Amos Elon, wrote that in Israel, “the Holocaust was long seen as simply the culmination […]

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Monday, March 11th 2024 / Sunday, March 10th 2024

Ron Kampeas Jewish Chronicle, Feb. 14, 2024 “As Israel battles Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Iranian proxies on its borders, we are urging both Democrats and Republicans to move beyond partisan differences and support emergency funding for the Jewish state,” AIPAC spokesman Marshall Wittmann said in an email.”   Since Oct. 7, a growing number of […]

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Monday, March 11th 2024 / Sunday, March 10th 2024

Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Nov. 16, 2024 “Though the former president consistently ignored Carlson’s advice when it came to his historic support for Israel, as well as his tough attitude towards Iran when he was president, it’s not unreasonable to ask whether it might be different in a putative second Trump administration.”   On the […]

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Monday, March 11th 2024 / Sunday, March 10th 2024

Paul A. Gigot WSJ, Mar. 12, 2024 “What worries me these days is the lack of unity and resolve on the right. That includes the return of conservative isolationism. The proponents of this view would not identify themselves with that term, but the policies they espouse justify it.”   I recently looked back at what my […]

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Monday, March 11th 2024 / Sunday, March 10th 2024

Meir Soloveitchik National Review, Feb. 22, 2024 “After two millennia of persecution experienced by Jews at the hands of others, it remains a wonder that a multitude of Americans — almost certainly many millions — ardently embrace their own version of Disraeli’s dictum, that God will treat America as it treats the Jews.”   Some […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, March 8th 2024

  SHABBAT READING   God’s Shadow: VAYAKHEL 5771, 5784, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — In Vayakhel we meet, for the second time, the man who became the symbol of the artist in Judaism, a man by the name of Betzalel.  “Then Moses said to the Israelites, “Know that the Lord has chosen Betzalel son of Uri, the […]

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Friday, March 8th 2024 / Thursday, March 7th 2024

Richard Goldberg FDD, Feb. 7, 2024 “The goal is not to improve people’s lives; it is to keep them in a state of insecurity and instability for which they are encouraged to hold Israel responsible. This is the only reason UN officials and some Western political leaders falsely claim that no alternatives exist.”   Last […]

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Friday, March 8th 2024 / Thursday, March 7th 2024

Frederic Eger LinkedIn, Feb. 14, 2024 “… even without an express condemnation of Israel, a post that is clearly designed to evoke sympathy for Palestinians in Gaza, by showing photos of a distressed child, or emotional language, and which does not mention the responsibility of Hamas, will often evoke antipathy toward Israel.”   Out of […]