Analysis
Monday, February 10th 2025 / Sunday, February 9th 2025
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Feb. 9, 2025 “Trump can do as he appeared to intimate this past week in his meetings with Netanyahu—stating that Israel had the backing of the United States to do whatever is necessary to finally eradicate Hamas and ensure that it will never again hold power in Gaza.” It’s been more […]
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Friday, January 31st 2025 / Thursday, January 30th 2025
UNWatch, Jan. 7, 2025 “UNRWA’s senior management not only knowingly employ individuals tied to Hamas terrorism, but also allow the terrorist groups to influence critical agency decisions and policies.” A bombshell new investigation from international human rights group UN Watch exposes the disturbing links between the UNRWA and Palestinian terror organizations. According to the report, Hamas and […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, January 24th 2025
Hamas actually emerged unscathed from this conflict. Hamas is emerging in Gaza quickly to take control and showcase its abilities. It wants to portray this as a major victory, even if it suffered many losses. It doesn’t want any vacuum to emerge or any areas to emerge where it loses control.” – Seth J. Frantzman […]
TOI staff Times of Israel, Jan. 23, 2025 “… the concern about burning intelligence sources was a mark of the IDF’s obliviousness.” It was 2 a.m. on October 7, 2023, when accounts reportedly started to filter into an Israeli Air Force command center of strange activities from Hamas’s aerial division and signs that the terror […]
Itamar Eichner Ynet News, Jan. 22, 2025 “Don’t you see the devastation behind you? What victory is this? Do you never look at the balance sheet?” Members of Hamas‘ political bureau met with Turkish intelligence officials on October 7, 2023, the same day Hamas launched a devastating attack on Israel, killing over 1,200 people, Turkish […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Jan. 19, 2025 “The videos may be meant for propaganda in some cases, but the overall message is clear. Hamas has emerged from tunnels in Gaza and from the rubble in some areas and is clearly in control.” Hamas appears to be emerging from tunnels and rubble in Gaza to show that it […]
“ Ohad Merlin Jerusalem Post, Jan. 23, 2025 “However, it appears that, in Hamas’s theology, Hamas are not merely the Romans or the Babylonians who come to punish the Jews – but can rather also be the Israelites themselves.” Earlier this week, the spokesman for the Al-Qassam militia, Abu Obeida, released a pre-recorded speech on the […]
Monday, January 20th 2025
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Jan. 19, 2025 “More specifically, a new trend of Islamic parties could be on the rise for the first time since the 1990s when these parties were also growing. This is not an ISIS-type extremism, but it is also not soft and fuzzy.” The ceasefire in Gaza will have broad implications across […]
Victor Davis Hanson Mosaic, Jan. 16, 2025 “ … in the postmodern Western democracies, there arises a certain end-of-history utopianism, in which war is deemed anachronistic and the result of misunderstanding and miscommunication, rather than of innate evil or the desire to gain advantage once perceived deterrence is lost and the stronger can dictate to […]
Melanie Phillips Substack, Jan. 19, 2025 “Let’s hope the Trump administration speedily redeems itself by helping Israel now rid the world once and for all of this evil.” To all those in the West who have perpetrated the lie of Israeli genocide in Gaza for the past 15 months: look at the pictures of the […]
Armin Rosen Unherd, Jan. 18, 2025 “But accepting this deal is hardly an act of insanity. Aside from freeing the hostages from a living hell, the goal of this agreement, as with many of Netanyahu’s decisions over the past year, has been to create the freedom of action needed to keep fighting.” After the horrors […]
Friday, January 17th 2025
SHABBAT READING The Angel of YHWH: Dr. Daniel O. McClellan, The Torah.com, Mar. 29, 2023 — Several biblical narratives conflate מַלְאַךְ יְ־הוָה—usually translated as “the angel of YHWH,” but more accurately rendered as “the messenger of YHWH”—with God or YHWH. 1. The Akedah After Abraham binds Isaac on the altar, the messenger of YHWH calls out to Abraham […]
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