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Friday, October 27th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
SHABBAT READING When Peace Fails: Psalm 120: Prof. Adele Berlin, The Torah.com, Oct. 26, 2023 — In these troubled times we often look to psalms to express our feelings and to find hope. Psalm 120 seems especially relevant now. It begins by calling on God for protection from the deceptive speech of the speaker’s enemies: שיר המעלות קכ:א שִׁיר הַמַּעֲלוֹת […]
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Konstantin Kisin The Free Press, Oct. 22, 2023 “The reaction to the attacks—from outwardly pro-Hamas protests to the mealy-mouthed statements of college presidents, celebrities, and CEOs—has exploded the comforting stories many on the center-left have told themselves about progressive identity politics.” When Hamas terrorists crossed over the border with Israel and murdered 1,400 innocent people, they […]
Jacob Howland UnHerd, Oct. 16, 2023 “Theologians have long understood Evil as an absence or privation: complete separation from God. But while mere absence is inert, Evil is as potent and contagious as certain deadly viruses” After the Holocaust, academics and others tried to make sense of the murder of six million Jews. Historians […]
Thursday, October 26th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
CAIR AT WORK The Hamas Network in America: A Short History: Lorenzo Vidino, Program on Extremism at George Washington University, October 2023 — Hamas supporters have long operated in the United States. Internal Hamas documents and FBI wiretaps introduced as evidence in various federal criminal cases clearly show the existence of a nationwide Hamas network engaged in […]
Aleks Phillips Newsweek, Oct. 23, 2023 “Expressing support for Hamas is different from being actively involved in the organization’s international network, which according to the GWU study, has largely been blocked in the U.S., but nevertheless continues in a diminished form.” Hamas backers “have long operated in the United States” and they “are […]
Wednesday, October 25th 2023 / Tuesday, October 24th 2023
Michael Oren WSJ, Oct. 22, 2023 “Only by destroying Hamas can Israel secure our borders and deter our enemies. Only when we have freed ourselves from the threat of Hamas barbarism can we begin restoring our faith in our governing institutions and armed forces. We can believe, as we once did, in the idea of Israel, […]
Gerard Laval Washington Times, Oct. 18, 2023 “A cease-fire in Gaza will merely be viewed by Hamas as a hiatus in the effort to achieve their ultimate objective (in this case the destruction of Israel and the murder of its Jewish citizens, as openly enunciated in their charter).” It is terribly immodest and even arrogant to quote oneself. […]
Tuesday, October 24th 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
Yaroslav Trafimov WSJ, Oct. 22, 2023 “The military paradox here is that, the faster Israel is forced to operate, the more it would have to use to brute force, increasing the civilian toll and the damage to Gaza’s infrastructure.” As Israel plans a ground operation in Gaza, aiming to eradicate Hamas, recent history elsewhere […]
David Schencker Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Oct. 23, 2023 “Iran appears for the time being to be inclined to preserve Hezbollah—its most important deterrent asset against a potential Israeli strike on the theocracy’s nuclear programme—rather than degrade its capabilities in the service of Hamas.” October 23 marks the 40th anniversary of Lebanese […]
John Spencer Modern War Institute, Oct. 11, 2023 “… urban warfare presents challenges that extend well beyond the tactical level. On top of these are several that will challenge Israel’s efforts at the operational and even strategic level.” Shortly after a Hamas assault that produced the deadliest day Israel has suffered in decades, Israel declared […]
David Kilcullen Foreign Affairs, Oct. 23, 2023 “Urban combat is slow, grinding, destructive, and horrendously costly in human life.” Although the details are still difficult to predict, it seems very likely that Israel will mount a land invasion of the Gaza Strip in the near future. If and when that happens, the campaign will […]
Monday, October 23rd 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023
ENOUGH BLAME TO GO AROUND Canada Faults Hamas for Gaza Hospital Blast, But Trudeau and Joly Remain Oddly Quiet: Michael Higgins, National Post, Oct. 22, 2023 — Is it expecting too much to hope that our prime minister and foreign affairs minister will act in a fair, principled and impartial manner? The answer, unfortunately, appears […]
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