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Wednesday, August 7th 2024 / Wednesday, August 7th 2024
OFFENSE MEASURES It’s Not a Border. It’s a Front.: Brig. Gen. (res.) Eran Ortal, BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,290, Aug. 5, 2024 — Israel’s traditional security concept consisted of a defensive strategy based on mainly offensive tactics. ‘Allah Vult’: Sinwar’s Hamas between Islamist Messianism and Hardline Convictions – Analysis: Ohad Merlin, Jerusalem Post, Aug. 7, 2024 –– On […]
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Wednesday, August 7th 2024
Professor Efraim Inbar JISS, Aug. 4, 2024 “Attrition warfare is the best outcome for the population-centric Iranian strategy and the worst possible scenario for Israel.” Governments in many capitals of the world have repeatedly expressed apprehensions about escalation of the Gaza conflict and Hezbollah’s war of attrition against Israel. They fear greater violence, more casualties and […]
Seth J. Frantzman The National Interest, July 31, 2024 “It was Haniyeh who led Gaza down the road of becoming a springboard for ever-larger attacks on Israel.” Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran on July 31. Haniyeh was one of the most well-known faces of Hamas in the region. Ever since he took over […]
Tuesday, August 6th 2024
Tony Badran Tablet, July 31, 2024 “The Obama team sees Jewish sovereignty as a destabilizing factor in the regional arrangement with Iran, which therefore must be constrained, if not out outright abolished.” According to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Israel has “effectively lost sovereignty” over the north of its own country thanks to […]
Friday, August 2nd 2024 / Friday, August 2nd 2024
SHABBAT READING Natural or Supernatural?: Matot, Masei • 5771, 5784: Covenant & Conversation, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — The book of Bamidbar draws to a close with an account of the cities of refuge, the six cities – three on each side of the Jordan – set apart as places to which people found innocent of murder, but guilty of manslaughter, were […]
Friday, August 2nd 2024
Jake Wallis Simons The Telegraph, July 31, 2024 “The Iranians are boxed in. The law of the region dictates that they will need to mount a response. But dare they provoke Netanyahu further?” Since October 7, Israel has had one geostrategic imperative: to reinstate deterrence. In the Middle East – and increasingly in Ukraine and […]
Monday, July 22nd 2024
Amir Bohbot Jerusalem Post, July 21, 2024 “After consolidating all Hamas infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, based on what we saw in maps and documents and what was actually discovered, it is clear that Gaza was constructed as one large military base, including the use of kindergartens, schools, clinics, hospitals, and mosques. They intended to […]
John Spencer Newsweek, July 19, 2024 “If the diplomats fail to demilitarize Hamas, the brutal war is likely to resume—this time spilling out to southern Lebanon as well, where Hezbollah is also ready to fight from underground strongholds.” This week, Israel very likely killed the long-time head of Hamas‘s military, Mohammed Dief, with multiple 2,000-pound […]
Wednesday, July 10th 2024
Like Sadistic Nazis: Secret Hamas Papers Reveal Step-By-Step Action Plan for Oct. 7: Itay Ilnai and Filipp Piatov, Israel Hayom, June 28, 2024 — Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, known as “Abu Saheeb,” a senior Hamas official and commander of the Gaza Brigade, held a secret meeting with his battalion commanders on October 6, hours before the surprise attack […]
Wednesday, July 10th 2024 / Wednesday, July 10th 2024
Nils A. Haug Gatestone Institute, July 7, 2024 “It is the mission of the Islamic republic of Iran,” Iran’s current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been recorded as saying, “to erase Israel from the map of the region.” He adds, “Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated.” If […]
Jacob Nagel, Jerusalem Post, July 5, 2024 If there is a chance to reach a deal that Israel can accept, it is only by increasing the military pressure, not by reducing it.” After nine months of fighting in Gaza and the north, direct attacks from Iran, and terror attacks inside Israel, the country faces several […]
Friday, May 31st 2024
SHABBAT READING Sin Is a Debt that Must Be Repaid: Prof. Joseph Lam, The Torah.com, May 6, 2021 –Leviticus 26 describes in detail the rewards אִם בְּחֻקֹּתַי תֵּלֵכוּ “if you follow my laws,” (vv. 3–13) and the negative consequences of disobedience (vv. 14–45). As part of the description of punishment, the passage explains that once the Israelites are exiled, the […]
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on January 30, 2023. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]](https://isranet.org/storage/Untitled-design-87-2.png "Secretary Blinken Meets With Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on January 30, 2023. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]")
