Isranet Daily Briefing
Wednesday, February 19th 2025
GOING ROGUE Terror Finance at the State Department and USAID: Sam Westrop, Focus on Western Islamism, Feb. 1, 2025 — The Middle East Forum’s multi-year study of USAID and State Department spending has uncovered $164 million of approved grants to radical organizations, with at least $122 million going to groups aligned with designated terrorists and […]
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Wednesday, February 19th 2025 / Wednesday, February 19th 2025
Amine Ayoub Jeruselam Post , Feb. 18, 2025 “While USAID has its flaws, it also serves as a counterbalance to hostile foreign influence.” For years, critics of US foreign aid have pointed to instances where American taxpayer dollars have indirectly ended up in the hands of terrorist organizations. The well-documented cases of United States Agency for International Development funds […]
David Isaac JNS, Feb. 18, 2025 “In 2023, it spent most of its budget, or $31 million, on opposition to judicial reform.” As billionaire Elon Musk and his youthful team of tech wizards tear through America’s administrative state, exposing waste and misuse of funds, reports emerged that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded […]
Adam Kredo Washington Free Beacon, Feb. 10, 2025 “The rogue nature of USAID under Power has motivated the Trump administration’s push to dismantle the agency.” As the Trump administration works to shutter the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), current and former U.S. officials who worked closely with the embattled aid group say they […]
Daniel Greenfield Gatestone Institute, Feb. 18, 2025 “USAID’s money laundering scheme not only used the UN to send a fortune in dollars to the Taliban, it allowed their terrorist bank to run a “dollar cartel,” buying dollars from the UN through its NGOs at favorable rates and then covertly reselling the dollars back in Pakistan […]
Outside Source
Tuesday, February 11th 2025 / Tuesday, February 11th 2025
Ron Ben Yishai Ynet News, Feb. 10, 2025 “Hamas leaders in Gaza suspect that Israel intends to extend the first phase of the hostage deal, secure the release of more captives and then launch a large-scale military operation across the entire Gaza Strip.” Hamas’ decision to halt the scheduled hostage release on Saturday appears to […]
Friday, January 17th 2025 / Friday, January 17th 2025
Melanie Phillips JNS, Jan. 16, 2025 “Everything rested on the belief that Trump would support Israel as it did so. And the ultimate goal was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program for which his support was essential.” There was one immediate and very public effect of the hostage deal that was prematurely reported to have […]
Friday, January 17th 2025
Andrew Fox Substack, Jan. 15, 2025 “The first thing to note about this deal is that it completely validates Hamas’s strategy of taking hostages. Without the hostages, this war would have been over months ago, with a convincing IDF victory. “ World media reporting is that a ceasefire deal in Gaza is closer than ever […]
Wednesday, January 8th 2025
Dov Lieber, Carrie Keller-Lynn and Saleh al-Batati WSJ, Jan. 6, 2025 “Israel is Israelizing the problem.” Over the past year, Israel’s military has proved adept at taking down threats to the country’s security. After the initial shock of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, Hamas’s top leadership has been largely neutralized. Iran’s other big ally in the region, […]
Monday, January 6th 2025
Caroline B. Glick JNS, Jan. 5, 2025 “What was most notable about Blinken’s admission is that he didn’t appear to believe that there was anything wrong with the policies he imposed on Israel.” Liri Albag, one of five female IDF soldiers still being held hostage in Gaza, was the subject of Hamas’s most recently released […]
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, Jan. 5, 2025 “Why there hasn’t been a unanimous chorus around the world for Hamas to put down its weapons, to give up the hostages, to surrender – I don’t know what the answer is to that.” The way US Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his swan-song interview with The New York Times some […]
Editorial Board WSJ, Jan. 5, 2025 “More revealing is the Administration’s change in tune, especially since the U.S. election. Instead of continuing to complain about its failure to stop Israel, the Biden team has taken credit for Israel’s accomplishments.” Now he tells us. In an interview published Saturday in the New York Times, Secretary of State Antony Blinken named 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]")
