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Iran enriching up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% of weapons-grade, claims its nuclear aims are “wholly peaceful”

REUTERS Iran expanding nuclear work, switching off cameras amid IAEA censure Francois Murphy June 8, 2022 Iran has begun further expanding its underground uranium enrichment and said on Wednesday it would switch off two of the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s cameras, … Continue reading

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Chariots of Fire brought the Israeli military to a new standard, as troops practiced responding to emergency events

JPOST The IDF drills for a devastating war on home soil and away Anna Ahronheim June 4, 2022 It was a drill on a level that the IDF had never carried out before. Thousands of troops, and hundreds of aircraft … Continue reading

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Israeli relations improving with Greece, Saudi Arabia and….Pakistan ?

ALGEMEINER In Second Visit to Israel, Greek Military Chief Touts Strong Bonds June 8, 2022 Israel welcomed the chief of Greece’s armed forces with an honor guard on Wednesday, amid increasingly close ties between the Mediterranean nations. Gen. Konstantinos Floros, … Continue reading

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“The real crime, one that represents a serious breach of the long-standing intelligence-sharing arrangements between the US and Israel, is that one of President Biden’s senior officials has been willing to betray the trust of such a close ally”

GATESTONE Biden Is No Friend of Israel Con Coughlin June 3, 2022 Nothing better illustrates the Biden administration’s deep-seated antipathy towards the State of Israel than the leaking of highly classified material about the alleged role Israeli intelligence played in … Continue reading

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“With its elisions, manipulations, and tendentiousness, Rep. Tlaib’s House resolution reads as if it was written by a Palestinian propagandist from the 1950s or 1960s”

WASHINGTON EXAMINER Democrats go to war against Israel Alex Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky June 2, 2022 …The Democratic Socialists of America [DSA] believed Democrat Jamal Bowman’s increasingly heated attacks on Israel were not extreme enough to make him a good … Continue reading

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#BrookeGoldstein on ILTV: Is the #BDS movement still relevant? #EndJewHatred

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“Uvalde students were calling 911 and begging for help. The officers stayed outside for almost an hour during the mass shooting”

WALL STREET JOURNAL The Uvalde Police Scandal Peggy Noonan June 2, 2022 The great sin in what happened in Texas is that an 18-year-old with murder in his heart walked into a public school and shot to death 19 kids … Continue reading

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Joshua Katz’s mother-in-law’s writes a manifesto

SPECTATOR In defense of Joshua Katz Kari Jenson Gold June 4, 2022 Last July 17, my daughter, Solveig Gold, married (then) Princeton professor Joshua Katz. It was a glorious, indeed transcendent (as one friend put it) celebration of the glory … Continue reading

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The baton has been passed from those who massacred Jews in 1941 Baghdad to today’s Iraqi politicians controlled by Iran.

JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATE Why we need to remember the Farhud Lyn Julius June 1, 2022 Iraq is in the news again, this time due to its passage of a “draconian” law that forbids contact between Israel and Iraqi citizens on … Continue reading

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Most people can name one—and only one such journalist, #ShireenAbuAkleh out of 2658 killed 1990-2020. There is a name for that selective attention

ARUTZ SHEVA How many names of journalists killed in war zones do you know? Prof Phyllis Chesler May 22, 2022 Did you know that 12 Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in recent years – seven of those in Syria? … Continue reading

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