Analysis
Tuesday, March 21st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Tony Badran Tablet, Mar. 8, 2023 “Providing the Palestinians with guns and bullets, and the training to use them effectively, appears to be the point of the Biden administration’s plan.” While the Biden administration has been busy encouraging and funding the Israeli protest movement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms, it has also launched a far more potentially […]
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Yoni Ben Menachem Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Mar. 16, 2023 “The desire to commit suicide among the [Muslim] residents of the West Bank is unprecedented, and the state of resistance in the West Bank is excellent. So is the state of national unity in the face of the occupation.” Sometime on March 11 […]
Monday, February 27th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Yochanan Visser Israel Today, Feb. 26, 2023 “Iran further stepped up its psychological war against Israel by publishing a photo of a ballistic missile with the Hebrew text: Mavet L’Yisrael (Death to Israel) written on it.” Very early Sunday morning last week residents of northeastern Israel again woke up to the sound of low-flying fighter jets. […]
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Tuesday, February 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
GAME CHANGER FOR U.S.? Iran’s Arsenal of Tyranny: Clifford D. May, WSJ, Feb. 7, 2023 — More than 3,000 assault rifles, 578,000 rounds of ammunition and 23 anti-tank guided missiles. A shipment from Americans to Ukrainians defending themselves from Russian invaders? No, a shipment from the Islamic Republic of Iran to Houthi rebels attempting to […]
Shay Khatiri National Review, Jan. 19, 2023 “The regime’s violent response in 2009 breached public trust and convinced the people that the regime remained extremely cruel.” The killing of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, while she was in custody for wearing her hijab loosely, has sparked a new wave of protests in Iran. Many […]
Vali Nasr Foreign Affairs, Feb. 6, 2023 “Iran is seeking to become indispensable to Russia’s war effort in Ukraine.” Over the past five months, a wave of protests has rocked Iran. Young women calling for an end to the compulsory headscarf have been joined by students, laborers, and professionals demanding individual rights, political reform—and […]
David Sarange NY Post, Jan. 28, 2023 “Starved of information, Iranians appear to want what we are offering.” Four hundred and fifty million. That’s the number of times social media users across the globe engaged with Farsi-languge digital content generated by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs last year. And guess what, 93% of these viewers […]
Monday, January 30th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Hillel Frisch JNS, Jan. 12, 2023 “Comparing these two sites based on 60 days of coverage reveals the gnawing contradictions in their messages and the cynical media manipulations of their sponsor.” Israel’s willingness to swallow abuse and indignity from foreign states has long been a feature of its foreign relations. Such forbearance in […]
Friday, September 30th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
SHABBAT READING The Psalm of the Shofar: Its Use in Liturgy and its Meaning in the Bible: Prof. Alan Cooper, TheTorah.com, September 2022 — The standard machzorim of today, following the reading of the haftara, introduce the ceremonial sounding of the shofar with Psalm 47. The psalm is recited seven times in many congregations, a late custom […]
Karim Sadjadpour Washington Post, Sept. 24, 2022 “The unrest triggered by Amini’s death should push the Biden administration to reassess its Iran strategy.” The death in Iran of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini — who was reportedly brutally beaten after she was detained by the “morality police” for showing too much hair — has triggered nationwide protests, […]
Benoit Faucan and Michael Amon WSJ, Sept. 28, 2022 “Growing up in Iran, it’s impossible to know someone, a young woman who has not been arrested because of allegedly wearing her hijab improperly.” The protests that have erupted across Iran in the past two weeks are rooted in anger at the country’s morality police, an unpopular […]
David E. Sanger NY Times, Sept 26, 2022 “… there were hints that the administration was looking for ways to get Starlink, in particular, into the hands of protesters.” The last time waves of protests swept Iran, after the killing of a young woman who was standing on the sidelines of an anti-government rally […]
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