Isranet Daily Briefing
Wednesday, December 11th 2024
“Syria provided so many advantages at a low cost. Losing Syria would be a big strategic defeat that would reverberate beyond the Middle East. It would have global repercussions.” – Anna Borshchevskaya **** Retreat of Syrian Forces Threatens ‘Saigon Moment’ for Russia: Sune Engel Rasmussen and Thomas Grove, WSJ, Dec. 7, 2024 Putin’s Collapsing Middle […]
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Tom Rogan Unherd, Dec. 8, 2024 “Putin’s overambition has come home to roost. He thought he had won in Syria and could easily squash Ukraine. Now the consequences of his latter failing have reverberated in the former country.” Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown, fleeing Damascus after a rapid rebel advance. But the Syrian dictator is far from […]
Hanna Notte NY Times, Dec. 10, 2024 “No amount of rhetorical gymnastics by Russia’s spin doctors can distract from the fact that the abandonment of Mr. al-Assad is the clearest sign, since Mr. Putin invaded Ukraine, that there are new limits on Russian power projection.” This time, when Bashar al-Assad started to fall, Russia was […]
Sune Engel Rasmussen and Thomas Grove WSJ, Dec. 7, 2024 “To see Russian planes leave Syria as rebel forces move onward towards their air bases, and their assets in Damascus fall, this would be so devastating for the Russian image of itself. It would be akin to a Saigon moment for them.” A fast-advancing rebel offensive […]
Monday, February 19th 2024 / Monday, February 19th 2024
ON NOVALNY’S MURDER: PROF. FREDERICK KRANTZ, CIJR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (EMERITUS) The death of Alexei Novalny, a great and courageous man reveals the stark viciousness of the Stalinoid Putin regime. It is ironic, and fitting, that this tragic event occurs shortly after the fawning and shameful Tucker Carlson soft-ball “interview” with Putin, which the Russian dictator […]
Monday, February 19th 2024
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, Foreign Affairs, Feb. 16, 2024 The announcement on Friday that the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in a remote Russian prison colony has left observers of the country in shock. For years, the most fearless critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the pervasive corruption of Putin’s […]
John Jurgensen, WSJ, Feb. 16, 2024 Daniel Roher, a 30-year-old Canadian filmmaker based in Los Angeles, found out about Alexei Navalny’s death on Friday when his wife, Caroline, woke him up at 4 a.m., having seen the headlines while tending to their 3-week-old baby. Few people outside Russia got to know Navalny as closely as Roher […]
Bari Weiss, The Free Press, Feb. 16, 2024 Alexei Navalny had a choice. After he was poisoned by Moscow in August of 2020, after he emerged from a monthlong coma in a Berlin hospital, after he overcame the terrible effects of the nerve agent Novichok, which was developed by the Soviet Union, he could have stayed in exile in […]
Ian Garner, Unherd, Feb. 16, 2024 When Alexei Navalny chose to board a flight to Moscow in January 2021, the opposition leader must have known his death was all but inevitable. After surviving one assassination attempt, and staring down the barrel of a long jail sentence handed down by Russia’s corrupt judiciary, Navalny chose […]
Wednesday, September 27th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Frederick Krantz “… he’s leading a relatively poor, corruption-stained country, independent only since 1991, which is nevertheless fighting for its life, with allies who, though generous, are not giving him full support for fear of antagonizing too greatly the very state that threatens his country.” Is there any political or moral alternative to the U.S.-led […]
Friday, August 18th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
SHABBAT READING The Greatness of Humility: שופטים, SHOFTIM • 5776, 5783: The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — At a dinner to celebrate the work of a communal leader, the guest speaker paid tribute to his many qualities: his dedication, hard work, and foresight. As he sat down, the leader leaned over and said, “You forgot to mention one […]
Thursday, July 13th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
Roger Kimball American Greatness, July 2, 2023 “The point is that, despite the abundance of commentary, this story to date is burdened with too much stasis to have achieved the status of “unfolding.”” Like many of my acquaintances, I feel alternately despondent and outraged by the unfolding story of the Bidens’ Excellent Bribery Adventure. […]
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