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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 […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

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 […]

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

Andrew Lappin JTA, Jan. 31, 2024 “Anyone who believes that this is a way to have a violent approach to the freedom of Palestinians, that’s not what we’re calling for, not chanting for.  But everyone has the right to interpret things on their own.”  A suburban Minneapolis school district is facing a federal investigation for Islamophobic […]

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

Michael Oren Clarity with Michael Oren, Mar. 5, 2024 “How would the long-held Soviet dream of instilling doubt, divisiveness, and self-loathing in American society be posthumously realized?” “I think it’s fair to say that I am not a Zionist.” So proclaimed the renowned professor of Modern Arab History before a class of Princeton University undergraduates. […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, March 5th 2024

Reconciling Israeli and US Plans for “The Day After” in Gaza:  Peter Berkowitz, Real Clear Politics, Mar. 3, 2024 Netanyahu’s Bold, Realistic Plan for ‘the Day After Hamas’:  Daniel Pipes, WSJ, Mar. 3, 2024 Why is Biden Pushing for an Immoral Hostage Deal?:  Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS, Feb. 28, 2024 Democratic Rhetoric Takes a Perilous Turn for the […]

Analysis

Monday, March 4th 2024 / Monday, March 4th 2024

Caroline B. Glick JNS, Mar. 3, 2024 “The second reason that Carville and other leading Democratic voices in politics, academia and the media are blaming Israel for what they fear will be a Trump victory in November is because they are setting up Israel—and more broadly— “the Jews” in the United States and worldwide—as the […]

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Monday, March 4th 2024 / Monday, March 4th 2024

Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Feb. 28, 2024 “With Biden promising to treat any pause in combat as an excuse to work for a permanent ceasefire, the main outcome of the next hostage deal (and there inevitably will be another) will be not so much an egregious act of extortion as a political victory for Hamas […]

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Monday, March 4th 2024 / Monday, March 4th 2024

Daniel Pipes WSJ, Mar. 3, 2024 “A trove of evidence, however, suggests that Gazans reject being used as pawns in the terror group’s strategy. Two surveys taken before Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre signal that Gazans want to live normal lives.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month presented Israel’s security cabinet with a short document: “The Day After […]