Israel Brief: Thursday, August 13
Israel is putting soldiers and caravans onto ground it means to keep. And keeps reading the objections about it after.
Katz stood on the Beaufort ridge yesterday and told the soldiers the army is not leaving Lebanon, Syria or Gaza, and Washington's answer came back in near realtime. The Ganim families set their caravans down this morning on ground the state emptied twenty-one years ago.
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Lebanon: Katz tells the Beaufort garrison the army is not leaving, and Washington objects within hours. See The War Today.
Hormuz: Trump calls the blockade a wall of steel, and Tehran keeps the strait shut. See The War Today.
Ganim: Caravans go up on the northern Samaria hill the state emptied twenty-one years ago. See Inside Israel.
Draft: One arrest closes Route 4, and the Jerusalem Faction hands out yellow patches. See Inside Israel.
Mecca pact: Erdogan wants the defense clause widened, and Riyadh blocks Egypt from getting in. See Israel and the World.
Ankara: The Secret Service acts on Israel's missile warning, and officials then brief against the intelligence. See Israel and the World.
London: Tehran orders British-Iranian dissidents onto anti-Israel marches, with a jailed relative as the lever. See Israel and the World.
New York: A magazine lists Zionism beside xenophobia. See Israel and the World.
Campus: The ADL puts the American campus problem inside the syllabus and the faculty senate. See Israel and the World.
School boards: New Jewish groups organize at city halls and statehouses, outside the tax-exempt institutions. See Israel and the World.
Washington's rebuke went out with no name on it, and Beirut, which calls the demolitions a violation of international law, has spent a year declining to search the houses that would end them. The American story runs the other way. There the fight is over a magazine's terms of admission and a school board's harassment policy, and the institutions holding the community's money have been bringing statements to it.
Today: Katz builds for a long stay in south Lebanon, Border Police clear the Qusra outposts overnight, and New York Magazine files Zionism under bigotry.
The Jewish State — Mitzpe's eight-session live course on Israeli history from the Mandate to October 7, taught the way the brief reads. Cohort 1: eight Sundays from Oct 11. mitzpe.org/the-jewish-state