Analysis
Thursday, April 25th 2024 / Thursday, April 25th 2024
David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Apr. 13, 2024 “But had Qatar wanted to pressure Hamas into a hostage release deal, it might have, for example, threatened to expel Hamas leaders from Doha or cut off their funding. There is no indication that Sheikh Al Thani has even contemplated this.” According to unassailable and well-reported Israeli […]
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Bassam Tawit Gatestone Institute, Apr. 24, 2024 “Qatar’s dalliance with Islamist groups has long been the primary means for Doha to project influence in the Arab world, particularly through state support for Al-Jazeera Arabic. For too long, Doha has danced between its Islamist allies and its Western and Arab partners.” Recently, the rulers of […]
David Horovitz Times of Israel, Apr. 8, 2024 “Looking more broadly at Qatar’s dealings with Gaza, the report specifies that Qatar has been fully aware and supportive of Hamas military activities and strategy for over a decade, and that its publicly declared assertion that its funding for Gaza was going to Palestinian welfare rather than […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, April 18th 2024
WATCH: Emergency Briefing on Iran’s Attack on Israel: Behnam Ben Taleblu, Emetonline, Apr. 16, 2024 WATCH: How Israel Divided the Right: Sorab Ahmari, Unherd, Apr. 14, 2024 — Since October 7th, old divides between Right and Left on support for Israel were predictably resurfaced. Less expected, however, was a new civil war on the online Right. Compact founder […]
Wednesday, April 17th 2024
NOW WHAT? Podcast: After the Iranian Attack on Israel—What Can Be Expected?: Adi Kantor, Danny Citrinowicz, and Chuck Freilich, INSS, Apr. 16, 2024 — After Iran’s leadership repeatedly threatened to retaliate for the assassination of its senior officer in Damascus, their reaction indeed finally came. How the U.S. Forged a Fragile Middle Eastern Alliance to Repel […]
Tuesday, April 16th 2024
INCREASING TIES WATCH: Iran Launches Largest Drone & Missile Attack in History | Caroline Glick In-Focus, JNS TV, Apr. 15, 2024 — Iran launched the largest combined missile and drone attack in history on Saturday (April 13th, 2024) against Israel. Now, it stands behind the effort to paralyze the global economy. All the details and analysis about what […]
Editorial Board WSJ, Apr. 14, 2024 “White House theories of escalation management don’t work against a regime that thinks a U.S. President fears escalation more than Iran does.” Iran’s drone and missile assault on Israel Saturday night into Sunday is an open act of aggression, but it isn’t the start of this conflict. It’s […]
Friday, April 12th 2024
SHABBAT READING Not What Happened But What Should Happen Now: Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, The Torah.com, Mar. 26, 2015 — Why do we even celebrate days of commemoration?[1] A careful look at the Torah demonstrates that our goal is not to return to the past but rather to bring the past to us. These are not archaeological holidays […]
Benny Morris NY Times, Apr. 11, 2024 “… the spectacle of Israeli weakness — as much as a Rafah offensive — could tempt Hezbollah to gamble on a full-scale war.” Unfortunately, Benjamin Netanyahu is right — “unfortunately,” I say, because he is the most incompetent, corrupt and divisive Israeli prime minister ever, as many […]
Sherelle Jacobs The Telegraph, Apr. 8, 2024 “… the historic evidence is that military muscle can play a vital role in breaking faith in the fatally seductive idea that lurks behind all terrorist movements.” The view that Israel has embarked on a doomed Achillean killing rage in Palestine has become received wisdom in Western polite society. […]
Wednesday, February 28th 2024 / Tuesday, February 27th 2024
Yaakov Katz Jerusalem Post, Feb. 16, 2024 “The West was more obsessed with the people who might or might not have been killed in Gaza – depends if you want to believe Hamas – as opposed to the question of why two Israelis were being held there in the first place.” Imagine that in 2017, […]
Tuesday, February 13th 2024
Yisrael Medad Jerusalem Post, Feb. 12, 2024 “His new directive authorizes a swift cutoff of military aid to countries that violate international protections of civilians.” This current American Democratic administration appears, at this time, to be determined to do as much damage to US-Israel relations as possible both within the confines of the traditional relationship […]
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