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

Bob Goldberg Real Clear Policy, Feb. 28, 2024 “The question is, when it comes to Jews and Israelis if the ICRC has a moral compass at all.”   In the pantheon of international organizations that treat Israel with a mix of disdain and indifference, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) is a cut above the […]

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

Abraham Wyner Tablet, Mar. 6, 2024   “This regularity is almost surely not real. One would expect quite a bit of variation day to day.”   The number of civilian casualties in Gaza has been at the center of international attention since the start of the war. The main source for the data has been […]

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Thursday, March 7th 2024

WHAT’S “VICTORY”?   Until Victory—Swords of Iron:  Ofer Shelah, Anat Shapira and Idit Shafran Gittleman, INSS, Special Publication, March 6, 2024 — On December 24, during the 11th week of the war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared: “We are intensifying the war in the Gaza Strip. The war has a price, a very heavy price in the […]

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Thursday, March 7th 2024

Brigadier General (res.) Amir Avivi IDSF, Mar. 6, 2024 “As mentioned, both the history of Rafah and its current situation show that if Hamas is to be defeated as a governing body, the IDF must control the Philadelphi Corridor, Israel must have full authority over the entry of all goods into Gazan territory, and there […]

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Thursday, March 7th 2024 / Wednesday, March 6th 2024

Yoav Zitun Ynet News, Mar. 3, 2024 “it is evident to everyone that his astute suspicions triggered the initial chain of events in one of the IDF’s primary achievements in the war: the exposure of the most closely guarded secret of the military commander of Hamas, Mohammed Deif – an expansive military infrastructure that has […]

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Thursday, March 7th 2024 / Wednesday, March 6th 2024

Marcus Walker Anat Peled and Summer Said WSJ, Feb. 29, 2024 “Their strategic goal is to survive.”    Senior members of Hamas’s leadership in exile met in Doha, Qatar, earlier this month amid concerns that its fighters were getting mauled by an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. Enemy troops were killing dozens of militants each day […]

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Thursday, March 7th 2024 / Wednesday, March 6th 2024

Seth J. Frantzman The National Interest, Mar. 4, 2024   “Israeli leaders have vowed to defeat Hamas, but the group is still in control of Rafah and continues to control the aid that entered Gaza via southern Gaza.”   Five months of war between Israel and Hamas has led to Israel defeating Hamas in many parts of Gaza. However, […]

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Thursday, March 7th 2024 / Wednesday, March 6th 2024

Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Dec. 25, 2023 “… what Hamas did in Gaza could serve as an unprecedented case study, one of a terror group investing ten years and 40,000 fighters to transform an entire area into one extended terror playground.” No one has ever fought a war with an enemy so deeply entrenched […]

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Thursday, March 7th 2024 / Wednesday, March 6th 2024

Barry R. Posen Times of Israel, Mar. 2, 2024 “Like the US and its allies in Iraq and Syria, Israel chose as its objective the destruction of its adversary. That’s why those earlier wars provide important insights into what Israel knew it would face in Gaza, and they help to explain its military strategy, tactics […]

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Wednesday, March 6th 2024

UNSAFE AND UNHEARD Jewish College Students Testify on Capitol Hill About Rampant Antisemitism on Campus:  Hannah Sarisohn, Jerusalem Post, Mar. 1, 2024 — The House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing Thursday with nine Jewish students from colleges and universities across the country who spoke about their experiences with antisemitism. York University Students Disappointed, But ‘Kind […]

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Wednesday, March 6th 2024 / Tuesday, March 5th 2024

Editorial Board WSJ, Feb. 29, 2024 “When the hate directed at Jewish students on campus is so extreme that the university can’t protect them, the failure rests with school officials as much as with the harassers.” Antisemitism took a frightening turn Monday at the University of California, Berkeley, where a pro-Palestinian mob surrounded a campus […]

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Wednesday, March 6th 2024 / Tuesday, March 5th 2024

Sergiu Klainerman Tablet, Feb. 26, 2024 “The degree of woke infection of a particular academic discipline appears to be inversely proportional to the level of its mathematical sophistication.” In the wake of Harvard, Penn, and MIT’s congressional testimony debacle, followed by the plagiarizing travails of Harvard’s President Claudine Gay and her reluctant and ungracious resignation, it […]