Analysis
Friday, May 31st 2024
Bret Stephens NY Times, May 28, 2024 “Terms like “precision weapons” can foster the notion that it’s possible for modern militaries to hit only intended targets. But that’s a fantasy, especially against enemies like Hamas, whose method is to fight and hide among the innocent so that it may be rescued from destruction by the […]
Tagged
Wednesday, October 25th 2023 / Tuesday, October 24th 2023
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. […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, June 1st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
‘The Soldier’s Truth’ Review: Ernie Pyle, at the Front: Ben Yagoda,WSJ, May 24, 2023 The Price of Victory: Stanley Goldfarb, Washington Free Beacon, May 29, 2023 Buried Under the Stars: Jamie Betesh Carter, Tablet, May 25, 2023 The Anonymous Postcard That Inspired a French Best-Seller: Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, May 11, 2023 For Further Reference: […]
Leslie Camhi New Yorker, May 11, 2023 “As I was writing, I had the feeling that I was living in all these different periods at once. It was as if I had entered into a different relationship with time.” The Postcard,” a novel by the French author Anne Berest, opens on a snowy morning […]
Jamie Betesh Carter Tablet, May 25, 2023 “It was around this time that we learned this wasn’t an isolated incident. It turns out there are 13 WWII cemeteries, and in at least 12 of them there are hundreds of Jewish soldiers buried under crosses, mistakenly.” When Mariellen Miller was a child growing up in […]
Stanley Goldfarb Washington Free Beacon, May 29, 2023 “The brutality of the fighting is not just portrayed as a glimpse into the darkness that takes over men’s souls in war but also is profoundly moving as he describes the commitment and valor of the Americans.” REVIEW: To the End of the Earth: The US […]
‘ Ben Yagoda WSJ, May 24, 2023 “I picked up a pocket Bible with a soldier’s name in it, and put it in my jacket. I carried it half a mile or so and then put it back down on the beach. I don’t know why I picked it up, or why I put it […]
Thursday, March 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
LESSONS LEARNED Applying the Lessons of the Iraq War to Ukraine: Ron DeSantis vs. Bret Stephens of the NY Times: Real Clear Politics, Mar. 20, 2023— RealClearPolitics president and cofounder Tom Bevan and Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon discuss the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, as well as New York Times […]
Tom Basile Washington Times, Mar. 17, 2023 “Twenty years on, we owe it to our military, our civilians and ourselves as we face new threats together to take a more honest look at the successes of the War on Terrorism and our mission in Iraq.’ This week marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of our […]
Gerard Baker WSJ, Mar. 20, 2023 “The promulgation of the WMD fictions, the Abu Ghraib horrors, the catastrophically inept initial occupation and administration—all undid in a matter of months the post-Cold War authority and heft the U.S. had earned over decades.” Some of those who supported the invasion of Iraq 20 years ago this […]
Simona Foltyn Boston Review, Mar. 15, 2023 “… the government’s role in the August clashes deserves closer examination, not least because prime minister Kadhimi was Washington’s man in Baghdad.” Abbas stood in front of the state television station when the first bullet whizzed by. The thirty-something had been deployed there alongside hundreds of other soldiers […]
Huaisal Saeed Al Mutar The Free Press, Mar. 21, 2023 “For all that, for all the chaos America, for all the dislocation, for the grief that will never leave me, I don’t harbor any ill will toward America.” My eldest brother, Samir al Mutar, was born in August 1980. He was a talented computer engineer […]
Please select all the ways you would like to hear from the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research:
We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By clicking below to subscribe, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp's privacy practices.
