Analysis
Thursday, April 10th 2025 / Thursday, April 10th 2025
Melanie Phillips JNS, Apr. 3, 2025 “The people protesting on the streets are the same people who, on Oct. 7, poured into Israel across the shattered border fence behind the Hamas stormtroopers and themselves took part in that barbaric orgy of rape, slaughter and kidnapping.” It is striking, if unsurprising, that the demonstrations against Hamas […]
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Thursday, April 10th 2025
Brendon O’Neill Spiked, Apr. 8, 2025 “Hamas are basically just Jew exterminators, that’s their only real purpose, they don’t correct the environment for [their] citizens’, he says. So, yeah, maybe we need something new, ‘to end the troubles’.” Johnny Rotten is revolting again. This time it’s not the monarchy or the music industry the sexagenarian […]
Pamela Paresky and Dan Schueftan Quillette, Apr. 2, 2025 “Hamas believed it could win—not because it was stronger, but because Gaza had become the most fortified place in history. Fortified not just with missiles and tunnels, but with CNN, The New York Times, the BBC, the courts in The Hague, Amnesty International—every institution dominated by the autocratic, dictatorial, […]
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Friday, March 28th 2025
SHABBAT READING Building the Tabernacle in Your Mind: Dr. Amy Cooper Robertson, The Torah.com, Mar. 12, 2025 — The description of mishkan (Tabernacle) in Exodus is often read as a set of instructions. At first blush, this reading fits the plot: as the story goes, these are the instructions our forebears received to build just such a […]
Ohad Tal Jerusalem Post, Mar. 27, 2025 The three war goals outlined by the Israeli government immediately after the October 7 attack were clear: to destroy Hamas, to free the hostages, and to ensure Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel. Each of these goals has been achieved to a degree yet not completed. Since the […]
Friday, March 28th 2025 / Friday, March 28th 2025
Sudersan Raghavan, Suha Ma’ayeh and Carrie Keller-Lynn WSJ, Mar. 26, 2025 Palestinians took to the streets against Hamas in Gaza again on Wednesday, a day after hundreds protested, in a sign of deepening anger at the militant group as frustration over the destruction of their homes and lives spills into the open. “Out, out, Hamas […]
Ohad Merlin Jerusalem Post, Mar. 27, 2025 The rare anti-Hamas demonstrations that took place over the past few days in Gaza against Hamas took many by surprise. In fact, they were so rare and surprising that analysts had a hard time seeing them as spontaneous or authentic. They half-jokingly questioned whether the protests might have been orchestrated […]
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 […]
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 […]
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