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Alexey Navalny at one of the rallies in Moscow.-Wikipedia

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Daily Briefing: ALEXEI NAVALNY: “HERO OF A DARKENING CENTURY” — MURDERED

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ON NOVALNY’S MURDER:  PROF. FREDERICK KRANTZ, CIJR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (EMERITUS)   The death of Alexei Novalny, a great and courageous man reveals the stark viciousness of the Stalinoid Putin regime. It is ironic, and fitting, that this tragic event occurs shortly after the fawning and shameful Tucker Carlson soft-ball “interview” with Putin, which the Russian dictator […]

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How Navalny Changed Russia:

   Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, Foreign Affairs, Feb. 16, 2024 The announcement on Friday that the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in a remote Russian prison colony has left observers of the country in shock. For years, the most fearless critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the pervasive corruption of Putin’s […]

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The Navalny I Knew

 John Jurgensen, WSJ, Feb. 16, 2024 Daniel Roher, a 30-year-old Canadian filmmaker based in Los Angeles, found out about Alexei Navalny’s death on Friday when his wife, Caroline, woke him up at 4 a.m., having seen the headlines while tending to their 3-week-old baby.   Few people outside Russia got to know Navalny as closely as Roher […]

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Alexei Navalny Lived and Died in Truth:

  Bari Weiss, The Free Press, Feb. 16, 2024 Alexei Navalny had a choice.  After he was poisoned by Moscow in August of 2020, after he emerged from a monthlong coma in a Berlin hospital, after he overcame the terrible effects of the nerve agent Novichok, which was developed by the Soviet Union, he could have stayed in exile in […]

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Alexei Navalny Has No Heirs This the End of Russia’s Opposition?:

  Ian Garner, Unherd, Feb. 16, 2024 When Alexei Navalny chose to board a flight to Moscow in January 2021, the opposition leader must have known his death was all but inevitable. After surviving one assassination attempt, and staring down the barrel of a long jail sentence handed down by Russia’s corrupt judiciary, Navalny chose […]

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Shiri Bibas and her 9-month and 4-year-old sons Kfir and Ariel from Nir Oz were Kiddnaped by Hamas in 7/10/23 to Gaza. Yarden still waits to them. A mural in Tel Aviv-Wikipedia

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libération spectaculaire d’otages, le Hamas refoulé dans son dernier bastion et les Nations-Unies crachent (encore) sur les victimes du 7 octobre

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Citation de la semaine: « L’un des sauvetages les plus extraordinaires du 21e siècle » John Spencer, directeur de > l’Institut de la guerre moderne de West Point             Table des Matières Tsahal sauve deux otages à Rafah au cours d’une incroyable opération nocturne: i24NEWS, 12 février 2024 Les médias sourds […]

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Daily Briefing: WILL ISRAEL GO INTO RAFAH?

  Gersonides’ Scientific Interpretation of the Tabernacle:  Prof. Menachem Kellner, The Torah.com, Feb. 13, 2024 — Rabbi Levi ben Gershom (1288–1344),[1] known to the Jewish world by his acronym Ralbag and to the wider world as Gersonides, spent his fifty-six years in Provence.[2] While the names of his teachers remain unknown,[3] his erudition is staggering. Heavily influenced by Aristotelian philosophy, […]

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Taking Rafah Is Essential to Defeat Hamas

Editorial WSJ, Feb. 14, 2024 “Hamas can’t be destroyed while it has access to the Egyptian border and control of the flow of aid at Rafah.” Ever notice how it is always deemed a humanitarian imperative to let Hamas survive? The diplomatic pressure on Israel to stay out of Rafah, Hamas’s final stronghold, has become enormous. […]

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Sooner or Later, The IDF Will Enter Rafah. It May Have to Fight on Northern Border, Too

David Horovltz Times of Israel, Feb. 14, 2024 “One way or another, both Israel’s political and military chiefs are adamant, however, that the IDF will tackle Hamas in Rafah — the terror group’s last major largely intact stronghold, and the presumed hiding place of Hamas’s Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar and most of the hostages.” 1.  […]

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Egypt is Gaza’s Most Fickle Friend:  The President Hates Hamas, But His People Despise Israel

David Patrikarakos Unherd, Feb. 14, 2024 “Hatred and fear of Hamas runs deep in Egypt’s rulers.” A few years ago, while reporting in Gaza, I paid a visit to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Mohammed, my fixer, wasn’t keen. The guards there, he explained, were unfriendly. Sometimes they’d fire in the air if people […]

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Israel Facing Military, Diplomatic Dilemma as Attention Turns to Rafah

Ruth Marks Eglash Jewish Insider, Feb. 15, 2024 “The key to winning the war is for Israel to take over Rafah, destroy the remaining Hamas battalions and take control of the Egyptian border.” As Israel turns its attention to Gaza’s southernmost governate, Rafah, and what could be its final big battle in the war against […]

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Daily Briefing: AND WHAT’S WITH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY?

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COLUMBIA’S TURN House Committee to Investigate Columbia’s ‘Inadequate Response’ to Campus Antisemitism:  Cathryn J. Prince, Times of Israel, Feb. 12, 2024 — Columbia University’s handling of antisemitism is now the subject of an official Congressional committee investigation. What Happens When You Teach at Columbia and Reject Hamas: Shai Davidai and Yardenne Greenspan, Tablet, Feb. 13, 2024 Columbia University’s […]

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