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Wednesday, March 19th 2025
BAR’S MISSIVE The Letter That Led to Netanyahu’s Decision to Fire Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar: Nadav Eyal, Ynet News, Mar. 18, 2025 — The real reason behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar may lie in an extraordinary four-page letter Bar sent to Netanyahu, attached to the intelligence agency’s investigation into its failures […]
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Yoav Zitun and Noa Lutski Ynet News, Mar. 18, 2025 “Your mission is to protect the communities. We are engaged in a continuous operation against Hamas while remaining fully committed to bringing the hostages home.” The IDF launched a surprise operation in Gaza early Tuesday, striking 80 targets simultaneously. The strikes, which began at 2:10 a.m., […]
*** Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, Mar. 18, 2025 “Hamas could have released hostages to extend the ceasefire, but instead chose refusal and war.” Israel’s wave of a large-scale attacks on Hamas in Gaza on Monday night were neither a full-scale war nor a specific threat of a ground operation, but an action aimed at convincing Hamas to […]
Wednesday, March 19th 2025 / Wednesday, March 19th 2025
Stav Levaton Times of Israel, Mar. 18, 2025 “In a September 2021 conference held in Gaza titled “Promise of the Hereafter – Post-Liberation Palestine,” Palestinian factions openly discussed governing the entirety of Israel’s territory, “from the river to the sea.”” In the years leading up to its invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, Hamas developed a […]
Thursday, February 27th 2025 / Wednesday, February 26th 2025
Ynet News, Feb. 26, 2025 “This whitewashing keeps viewers ill-informed about Hamas and promotes sympathy for their deadly ideology. It signifies the institutional failure behind the BBC’s reporting of the Israel-Hamas conflict.” The BBC has been accused of “whitewashing” participants’ views in its controversial Gaza documentary by mistranslating references to “the Jews” and omitting praise […]
Rachel O’Donoghue Algemeiner, Feb. 18, 2025 “In a brazen display of false equivalence, Kuenssberg used the horrifying condition of the freed Israeli hostages as a springboard to push baseless allegations of abuse in Israeli prisons — a remark Herzog rightly called “outrageous” for its vile moral equivalence.” The media’s coverage of the release of the first […]
Adam LeBor The Free Press, Feb. 24, 2025 “BBC bosses absolutely know that there is a systemic problem of bias at BBC Arabic, but the fact that they have not admitted it is just pure gaslighting of the Jewish community.” Abdullah Al-Yazouri, a 13-year-old boy living in the Gaza Strip, is a natural in front […]
Monday, February 24th 2025
SPEAKING OUT Trump Criticizes Hostage Return, Calls Gaza Situation ‘Disgraceful’: Joshua Marks, JNS, Feb. 23, 2025 — … “It looked like [the Gazans] were celebrating as they were bringing the bodies back. You know, to see it is not even believable. … [W]hen you see what’s happening … It’s so barbaric. You wouldn’t think that […]
Monday, February 24th 2025 / Sunday, February 23rd 2025
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Feb. 20, 2025 “These latest instances of Palestinian Arab barbarism, however, are not one-offs or outliers.” Avoiding generalizations about groups of people is almost always wise. In doing so, we avoid the snares that can lead to prejudicial conclusions that cause us to forget that even those who differ from us […]
Meir Soloveitchik WSJ, Feb. 6, 2025 “It is, by all accounts, a society soaked with Jew-hate.” Thus goes a familiar story in the history of the Jewish people: A Jew, kidnapped from the Holy Land and taken to enemy territory, refuses to eat whatever nonkosher food is provided to him. So Scripture informs us of […]
Tuesday, February 11th 2025
THE FACES OF EVIL Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Scott Jennings on SiriusXM Patriot: Interview, US Department of State, Washington, D.C. Feb. 10, 2025 — . . . Look at these humiliations, they put them through before they’re released, where they do these big public displays of force. Do any of those Hamas fighters […]
Dr. Dan Diker and Yoni Ben Menachem Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Feb. 10, 2025 “It is more than reasonable to assess that the president and the prime minister’s coordination on stage two will vindicate Netanyahu’s public promise that he reiterated at the presidential summit, fulfilling the government’s original goals: removing Hamas from […]
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