Analysis
Wednesday, June 26th 2024
Zvi Hauser Israel Hayom, June 19, 2024 “The defense establishment estimates that defeating Hamas, in an optimistic scenario, will take only two or three years.” After yet another failure in the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Hamas regarding the release of captives, it’s clear that there is a fundamental disconnect between the two sides’ […]
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Stephen Kalin and Anat Peled WSJ, June 24, 2024 “We don’t want to see what we’ve seen in Gaza City and what we’ve seen in Khan Younis, which is the end of major combat operation and then the beginning of Hamas reasserting control and reasserting activity in those areas.” As Israel nears the end of major […]
Wednesday, June 26th 2024 / Wednesday, June 26th 2024
Summer Said and Rory Jones WSJ, June 10, 2024 “His [Sinwar’s] ultimate goal appears to be to win a permanent cease-fire that allows Hamas to declare a historic victory by outlasting Israel and claim leadership of the Palestinian national cause.” For months, Yahya Sinwar has resisted pressure to cut a ceasefire-and-hostages deal with Israel. Behind his decision, messages the […]
Bruce Hoffman Council on Foreign Relations, June 14, 2024 “Our job is to keep Palestinians radicalized. Most of them would settle in a moment for peace, some deal that will let them get on with their lives. We need to keep them angry.” What do we know about Hamas’s status as a fighting force […]
Tuesday, June 25th 2024
Efraim Laor Jerusalem Post, June 5, 2024 “UNRWA is not an aid agency. UNRWA is more like an illegal drug dealer involved in illegal drug dealings and devastating terror activities within its premises, selling as many bottles of poison and death as they can, indifferent to the damage caused to their customers and third […]
Tuesday, June 25th 2024 / Tuesday, June 25th 2024
Ken Belson and Katherine Rosman NY Times, June 24, 2024 “We do not believe UNRWA has immunity for aiding and abetting” the attacks on Israel.” For years, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency sent millions of dollars each month to Gaza to pay employees and support hospitals, schools and other infrastructure, according […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Monday, June 10th 2024
PRONOUNCED ABSURDITY BBC Asks Why IDF Didn’t Warn Gazans on Secret Raid:ILH staff, Israel Hayom, June 8, 2024 — Former IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus pushed back against a suggestion by BBC news anchor Helena Humphrey Sunday after she said the Israeli military should have given Palestinians advance warning on Saturday’s hostage rescue operation. EU’s Foreign Minister, Countries Around World, Condemn Rescue Op […]
Yaakov Lappin JNS, June 9, 2024 “The scale of the rehearsals was as large as the [1976] Entebbe operation—[in terms of] the models we used, as well as the way in which we trained, and we had to make sure that everything was done simultaneously,” he said. Saturday’s hostage rescue operation in central Gaza could not […]
Amir Bar Shalom Times of Israel, June 9, 2024 “The question now is how Saturday’s successful rescue will affect the negotiations to release the 120 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza. Right now, these talks are on hold as all sides wait for Hamas’s response to the latest Israeli proposal for a deal, approved […]
Seth Mandel Commentary Magazine, June 7, 2024 “Hamas showed reporters shrouds and told them what was in them, and the reporters dutifully repeated what they were told.” Now it can be told! Hamas lied that people died. The Associated Press has an analysis up today that reveals—I hope you’re sitting down for this—that the Hamas/UN casualty […]
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, June 9, 2024 “The whole civilian issue here really needs to be analyzed impartially and understood.” Some 44 years ago, Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) carried out a daring rescue operation to free some 20 hostages being held at the Iranian embassy in London. Twelve years ago, the British Special Boat Service, supported […]
Friday, June 7th 2024 / Friday, June 7th 2024
SHABBAT READING Liminal Space: BAMIDBAR • 5771, 5784, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — In English, the book we begin this week is called Numbers, and for an obvious reason. It begins with a census, and there is even a second count toward the end of the book. On this view, the central theme of the book is demography. […]
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