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Iran cyber attack was to poison Israelis with chlorine through their drinking water

JNS Iran ‘opened a Pandora’s box’ in cyber attack on Israeli water system by Yaakov Lappin June 2, 2020 The Iranian cyber attack in early April on an Israeli water-treatment facility, designed to get computers to add too much chlorine to … Continue reading

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“In late April, as Israel was busy managing its response to the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s National Water Authority was struck by a large-scale cyberattack”

PUNDICITY The Iranian-Israeli Conflict Goes Online by Ilan Berman May 26, 2020 A different kind of conflict is taking shape in the Middle East. Unlike the long-running Syrian civil war, this one is not a pitched power struggle between an … Continue reading

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#HasHeReallyThoughtThisThrough: “By halting the security crackdown on Hamas, Abbas would be paving the way for terrorists to kill him and his associates in the West Bank”

GATESTONE Abbas’s Precious Gift to Iran: Hamas by Khaled Abu Toameh May 23, 2020 …Khamenei evidently sees Abbas’s decision to renounce all agreements and understandings with Israel and the US as a positive development that would facilitate the mission Iran … Continue reading

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“In a region rife with adversaries, Israel considers Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite terrorist group, to be its toughest and most immediate threat”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) 20 years after withdrawal, Israel, Hezbollah brace for war by AP and ILH staff May 20, 2020 Twenty years after Israel withdrew from the security zone in southern Lebanon, the IDF and the Iranian-backed … Continue reading

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#CyberAttack “Iran used American servers to hack into the Israeli water and sewage facilities”

JERUSALEM POST National cyber unit warns of incoming Iranian, anti-Israel cyberattack by Yonah Jeremy Bob May 13, 2020 The Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) issued a warning on Wednesday that Iran and other anti-Israel activists were expected to stage a … Continue reading

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Iran: ‘It makes little sense to lift an arms embargo on a regime that has steadily increased its violent behavior over the past year”

NEWSWEEK Extend the Arms Embargo on Iran by Richard Goldberg and Mark Dubowitz May 7, 2020 In line with a request issued Monday by 387 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is preparing a … Continue reading

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“Pro-Palestinian activists, paleocons attack Ilhan Omar over support for maintaining Iran arms embargo”

FREE  BEACON Omar Attacked as Insufficiently Anti-Israel by Adam Kredo May 8, 2020 Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) is under fire from an unlikely group—the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activists who once hailed her as their movement’s biggest star. Omar, who has … Continue reading

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“Amid increased reports of IDF strikes on Tehran-linked bases, security officials say Israel wants to make clear to Damascus that Iran is a burden, not an ally”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Defense officials: Iran pulling out of Syria as Israel pummels its forces there by Judah Ari Gross May 5, 2020 Iranian forces are pulling out of Syria and closing military bases there, Israeli defense officials said Tuesday, … Continue reading

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“Most expert estimates already have Tehran’s time to break out for a nuclear bomb – if it chooses to do so, which all agree it has not yet – down from 12 months to between three and a half to six months”

JERUSALEM POST The coming giant internal Israeli war over a nuclear Iran – A 2010 rematch by Yonah Jeremy Bob April 12, 2020 A massive internal storm may be coming that the coronavirus may delay, but cannot stop. If it … Continue reading

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When it comes to the Middle East, former VP Biden has a history of endorsing woolly and reckless ideas”

BLOOMBERG Biden’s Call to Ease Iran Sanctions Fits a Bad Pattern by Bobby Ghosh April 6, 2020 …Biden has doubled down on Obama’s Iran policy, saying he would, as president, return the U.S. to the deal — without first insisting … Continue reading

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