Day: January 21, 2024

Lay of the Land Weekly Newsletter- 21 January 2024

Unveiling the contours and contrasts of an ever-changing Middle East landscape Reliable reportage and insightful commentary on the Middle East by seasoned journalists from the region and beyond

Home

Like this content? Please share and tweet it to your friends and followers.

To subscribe via email please send a mail noting your request to: layotland@gmail.com 
Please visit/ join/follow our social media platforms:

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/LotLSite/

X (Twitter): Lay Of The Land – @layoftheland5

Also available on YouTube @The Israel Brief  – Simply click on the red subscribe button to receive alerts when a new report is posted.



What’s happening in Israel today? See from every Monday – Thursday LOTL’s The Israel Brief broadcasts and on our Facebook page and YouTube by seasoned TV & radio broadcaster, Rolene Marks familiar to Chai FM listeners in South Africa and millions of American listeners to the News/Talk/Sports radio station WINA, broadcasting out of Virginia, USA.

THE ISRAEL BRIEF- 15-18 January 2023
(Click on the blue title)



The Colour Orange

Clutching orange balloons, Israelis mark the 1st birthday of ginger-haired hostage Kfir Bibas in Tel Aviv’s ‘Hostages Square’ on January 18, 2024. Kfir was abducted to Gaza by Hamas terrorists along with Kfir’s mother Shiri, brother Ariel and father Yarden from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023.




Articles

(1)

SEARCHING FOR LIGHT IN DREADFUL DARKNESS

Reflections from a sunny South Africa on the darkness befalling an Israeli baby boy hostage in Gaza
By Lesley Sacks

Tiniest Human Shield. Baby Kfir Bibas (left) and with brother Ariel and mother Shiri (right) being kidnapped
on October 7 from kibbutz Nir Oz and taken by Hamas terrorists to Gaza to be held as hostages.

SEARCHING FOR LIGHT IN DREADFUL DARKNESS
(Click on the blue title)



(2)

“UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER”

Following the Allies demand against a barbaric enemy in WWII, should Israel not insist on the same terms against the spiritual heir of the Nazis?
By Lennie Lurie

No to Nurturing Tomorrow’s Killers. Hopefully, in a post Israel-Hamas war, young Palestinian children will not
be indoctrinated to hate Jews and forced to attend Hamas military training camps (above) to emerge as future blood-thirsty killers as what happened on October 7, 2023.

“UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER”
(Click on the blue title)



(3)

LETTER FROM ISRAEL AT WAR – WEEK 15

Is South Africa now the judicial wing of Gazan terrorists that decapitate, mutilate, rape, incinerate and kidnap women and babies?
By Harris Zvi Green

Destroying a Legacy. Filing a complaint against Israel of “Genocide” on behalf of the world’s “most notorious terror organization,” has the once proud ‘Rainbow Nation’ been hijacked and has its national identity been substituted by something that’s not remotely South African?

LETTER FROM ISRAEL AT WAR – WEEK 15
(Click on the blue title)



(4)

100 DAYS IN GAZA

Rachel’s appeal: “Let’s let humanitarian aid get in and let’s let human beings get out”
By Jonathan Feldstein

Time Running Out. A mother laments “The world is turning a blind eye to the plight of the Israeli hostages. If this had been happening elsewhere in the world, people would display far more concern than they are showing for the Jewish/Israeli hostages.” 

100 DAYS IN GAZA
(Click on the blue title)



LOTL Cofounders David E. Kaplan (Editor), Rolene Marks and Yair Chelouche

To unsubscribe, please reply to layotland@gmail.com







While the mission of Lay of the Land (LotL) is to provide a wide and diverse perspective of affairs in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by its various writers are not necessarily ones of the owners and management of LOTL but of the writers themselves.  LotL endeavours to the best of its ability to credit the use of all known photographs to the photographer and/or owner of such photographs (0&EO).