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238 articles shownof 238 totalLast updated 2026-08-07 20:46 UTC
us defense 6 10h ago 3 min read

Uganda's Parliament Approves Troops for Trump's Gaza Stabilization Force

Uganda's parliament voted Thursday to let the country deploy soldiers to Gaza if the International Stabilization Force outlined in President Trump's ceasefire plan actually gets off the ground. Only a handful of countries have committed so far, the civilian administration for Gaza still doesn't exist, and nobody's saying when or if troops actually show up.

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il defense 8 10h ago 4 min read

Eight Muslim-Majority Nations Accuse Israel of Ceasefire Violations Nine Months In, While Blaming Hamas for Rearming

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan and Indonesia jointly condemned Israeli strikes in Gaza, saying more than 1,200 Palestinians have died since the ceasefire took effect. Israel says Hamas broke the deal first by rebuilding tunnels and rearming, and the plan's second phase, Hamas disarmament, looks dead. Both sides have receipts for bad faith. Neither side is walking away clean.

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il defense 7 1d ago 4 min read

Israel Charges Settler Yinon Levi With Manslaughter in Killing of West Bank Activist Awdah Hathaleen

Israeli prosecutors indicted settler Yinon Levi for reckless manslaughter in the July 2025 shooting death of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, the first such indictment since 2019 according to Yesh Din. Levi says he acted in self-defense; a rights group investigation says the video and forensics undercut that claim.

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il defense 8 1d ago 4 min read

Two Israeli Soldiers Killed in Lebanon Explosion, First Deaths Since June Truce

An explosive device detonated inside a building Israeli troops were searching in Majdal Zoun, Lebanon, killing two soldiers and seriously wounding four others. It's the first Israeli fatalities since the June 20 ceasefire with Hezbollah, and it triggered Israeli strikes that killed at least one Lebanese civilian and disrupted ceasefire talks in Rome.

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il defense 7 2d ago 3 min read

Israel and Lebanon Hold Seventh Round of Rome Talks as Hezbollah Chief Blasts Negotiations

Israeli and Lebanese technical teams sat down in Rome this week for a seventh round of U.S.-brokered talks, running Tuesday through Thursday, to hammer out border verification and Hezbollah disarmament mechanisms. Hezbollah's Naim Qassem trashed the process as national humiliation while Lebanon says it's still waiting on Israel to commit to the ceasefire terms.

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il politics 6 3d ago 4 min read

Ex-Attorney Testifies Israeli Confessions Behind Sarsour Deportation Case Were Coerced

A former defense attorney testified in Chicago immigration court that Wisconsin mosque leader Salah Sarsour was tortured into confessing to crimes in Israel decades ago, and was never convicted of ties to a terrorist group. DHS wants him deported as a foreign policy threat over those old convictions, even though he has no U.S. criminal record.

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il defense 8 3d ago 4 min read

Israel Kills Dozens in Gaza Strikes Days After Trump Called Hamas Deal 'Historic'

Since Trump announced his July 30 disarmament plan and called it a historic breakthrough, Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 25 to 26 Palestinians over a single weekend, the deadliest stretch in weeks. Israel says it won't pull troops out until Hamas fully disarms, and Hamas hasn't given up a single weapon yet.

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il defense 6 3d ago 3 min read

Gaza City Holds Mass Funeral for 112 Bodies Pulled From Rubble of 2023 Israeli Strike

Gaza City held its largest mass funeral of the war for 112 members of two extended families killed in a November 22, 2023 Israeli strike, after a two-week recovery operation finally pulled their remains from the rubble. The IDF has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment on what the strike targeted.

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il defense 7 4d ago 4 min read

Smotrich Asks Netanyahu to Approve Three Israeli Settlements Inside Gaza

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has publicly called on Prime Minister Netanyahu to greenlight three new settlements in northern Gaza, building on plans his ministry first floated in June 2026. The push comes as Israeli strikes continue in Gaza despite the ceasefire announced last October, and as Smotrich frames the move as a political choice ahead of upcoming Israeli elections.

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il finance 6 4d ago 4 min read

Visa Buys Israeli Fraud-Detection Firm BioCatch for $2.4 Billion Cash

Visa announced Monday it's acquiring behavioral biometrics firm BioCatch from Permira for $2.4 billion, betting big that AI-powered scams are the next existential threat to digital payments. The deal won't close until Visa's fiscal Q2 2027, and it does nothing to protect you if a scammer already has your card number today.

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il tech 5 5d ago 4 min read

Malaysia Shuts Down Balaji Srinivasan's 'Network School' Over Licensing and Israeli-National Allegations

Johor state authorities revoked the business license of Network School, Balaji Srinivasan's techno-utopian 'startup society' in Forest City, after finding licensing violations and investigating claims that Israeli nationals had entered Malaysia through the program. Srinivasan calls the coverage a hit piece and says he's already lined up a new campus in Kazakhstan.

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il politics 4 5d ago 3 min read

Six Israelis Detained for Spitting on Armenian Monastery, Stoning Woman's Window in Jerusalem

Six Jewish Israeli men were detained early Sunday after allegedly spitting at the entrance of Saint James Monastery in Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter and throwing stones at an Armenian woman's window when she filmed them. Three suspects got 15-day restraining orders barring them from the Old City while police investigate.

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il defense 6 6d ago 4 min read

IDF Kills Several Hezbollah Fighters in Overnight Clash on Ali al-Taher Ridge, Officer Wounded

Israeli troops killed several Hezbollah members overnight Friday into Saturday, August 1, after spotting the cell inside Israel's southern Lebanon security zone. An IDF officer was wounded, and the clash comes days after Israel demolished a 700-ton Hezbollah tunnel network at Beaufort Castle, a move Lebanon's president called a dangerous escalation.

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il defense 7 6d ago 3 min read

Nabatiyeh Residents Return to Ruins as Israeli Forces Hold Ground Beyond Declared Security Zone

Lebanese residents of Nabatiyeh are going back to salvage belongings from a city largely destroyed in the war with Israel, even as Israeli forces occupy positions like Beaufort Castle well beyond the buffer zone Israel says it needs. Lebanese health officials put the death toll since March 2 at at least 4,200, with Israel reporting 37 soldiers, one contractor, and two civilians killed. Both sides have their own justifications, but the facts on the ground are grim: a historic city gutted, tens of thousands displaced, and no clear timeline for when, or if, people can safely go home.

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il defense 8 6d ago 4 min read

Israel Says No Gaza Withdrawal Until Hamas Fully Disarms, Rejects US-Backed Road Map Details

Since Hamas agreed on paper Thursday to disarm, Israel has fired back that the 15-point framework doesn't go far enough and won't move from the Yellow Line until Gaza is fully demilitarized. Washington insists a deal is close. Jerusalem says the two sides aren't even talking about the same document.

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us politics 7 6d ago 3 min read

Trump's Board of Peace Publishes 15-Point Gaza Plan. The Sequencing Fight Is Still Unsolved.

President Trump's Board of Peace released the text of its 15-point Gaza plan on Friday, days after Trump touted what he called "a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT" of Hamas. Analysts who reviewed the released text told the Washington Post there is a substantial gap between Israel and Hamas over how the plan actually gets carried out — and neither side wants to move first.

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il politics 6 6d ago 4 min read

Janez Janša Returns as Slovenia's PM, Reverses Golob's Israel Policy and Vows Smaller Government

Janez Janša, back for a fourth term as Slovenia's prime minister, has moved fast to undo predecessor Robert Golob's foreign policy, including plans to relocate the embassy to Jerusalem and scrap a weapons trade ban with Israel. He's pairing that with a domestic pitch of lower taxes, less red tape, and a second nuclear reactor, all while still backing Ukraine against Russia.

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il defense 6 6d ago 3 min read

Israeli Settler Tells BBC Killing 'All' Palestinians in Nearby Villages Would Be Justified

A lawyer living in the unauthorized West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad told the BBC that Palestinian villages should be wiped out in revenge for the killing of an Israeli security guard, saying one Jewish life equals '10 million' Palestinian lives. The remarks came after a weekend of settler attacks on Palestinian villages following a disputed clash that left an Israeli soldier and four Palestinians dead. }

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gb defense 6 Aug 1 2 min read

UK Police Arrest Turkish National on US Charges of Aiding Hamas

British authorities have arrested a Turkish man in the UK on US charges accusing him of helping funnel money to Hamas, according to AP News. He remains in UK custody as the case proceeds.

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il politics 8 Jul 31 4 min read

Hamas Agrees to Disarm on Paper, But Israel Says No Withdrawal Until It Actually Happens

Trump announced Thursday that Hamas signed onto a detailed disarmament framework brokered by his Gaza Board of Peace. Within a day, both sides showed the deal's fine print still has a giant chicken-and-egg problem: Israel won't pull troops back until Hamas disarms, and Hamas says it won't disarm until Israel pulls troops back.

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cn defense 7 Jul 31 4 min read

China Set to Ship Up to 400 Missile Launchers to Iran as Hamas Agrees to Disarm in Gaza

Hamas has committed to a disarmament plan under the Gaza ceasefire framework, a real win for the Board of Peace overseeing the truce. At the same time, Iran is expected to receive its first shipment of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air-defense missile launchers within weeks, a $60-70 million deal that shows Beijing rearming Tehran even as Gulf states lean on China to rein Iran in.

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us politics 7 Jul 31 4 min read

UN Agencies Still Withholding Employee Records in U.S. Probe of Hamas Ties to Gaza Aid Groups

Six U.N. agencies have gone months without fully answering a USAID inspector general investigation into whether Hamas infiltrated Gaza relief operations, including UNRWA, which investigators say paid salaries to roughly 100 identified Hamas affiliates. The probe has since expanded to 1,500 UNRWA-linked individuals suspected of terror ties, while the State Department pushes to shut UNRWA down for good.

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us politics 8 Jul 31 4 min read

Trump Announces Hamas Disarmament Deal. Israel and Hamas Are Already Reading It Differently

President Trump says Hamas agreed to disarm in Gaza through his 'Board of Peace,' calling it a historic breakthrough. But Hamas is calling it a draft contingent on Israeli withdrawal, and Israel hasn't signed off at all. This is a real diplomatic step, not a finished deal.

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il tech 3 Jul 31 4 min read

Israeli Startup Hush Security Raises $30 Million to Police AI Agents Inside Corporate Networks

Hush Security landed a $30 million Series A, with Akamai joining Battery Ventures and YL Ventures, to lock down the identities of autonomous AI agents running inside enterprise systems. The pitch: software agents are multiplying faster than any security team can track, and most companies are governing them with rules built for humans, not machines.

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il defense 7 Jul 30 4 min read

Israel Rejects Gaza Peace Council Plan, Demands Hamas Disarm Before Any Withdrawal

Israel's Security Cabinet has approved a 200-member international force to enter Rafah and start rehabilitating Gaza, but Netanyahu's government says it won't pull back from the Yellow Line until Hamas is fully disarmed. Border communities near Gaza are pushing back hard, warning that rebuilding the Strip before disarming Hamas just resets the clock to October 6.

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us politics 6 Jul 30 4 min read

Netanyahu and Vance Hold Direct Blair House Meeting Over Vance's Iran Diplomacy Comments

Benjamin Netanyahu and JD Vance sat down one-on-one in Washington on Tuesday to hash out months of friction over Vance's public criticism of the Israeli government and its resistance to a U.S.-brokered Iran memorandum. This is a real rift inside an alliance the administration claims to be managing, not a minor scheduling footnote.

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il finance 5 Jul 30 4 min read

Brothers Behind $400M NY Summer Camp Empire File Chapter 11, Owe Israeli Bondholders $214 Million

Michael and David Shabsels built a 30-camp empire across New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania worth roughly $400 million, then borrowed their way into collapse. Since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 30, their camps are being auctioned off while Israeli bondholders say they're out $214 million and the DOJ reportedly investigates. Parents with kids currently enrolled are left wondering if camp continues.

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il politics 3 Jul 30 3 min read

CODEPINK Activists Confront Sen. Rick Scott on Capitol Hill Over Israel, Iran and Cuba

CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans confronted Sen. Rick Scott in a Capitol hallway over his support for Israel, U.S. strikes on Iran, and Cuba sanctions. Scott pushed back in real time, and the exchange has renewed attention on CODEPINK's funding ties to Neville Roy Singham, whose links to Chinese Communist Party-connected media have drawn bipartisan scrutiny.

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il energy 7 Jul 29 3 min read

Glencore Expects $3.3 Billion Trading Profit as Israel-Iran War Disrupts Oil Markets

Glencore says its marketing division expects roughly $3.3 billion in first-half profit, nearly double last year's pace, as the Israel-Iran conflict scrambled crude flows and refining margins. Rivals Trafigura and Mercuria posted similarly outsized profits, showing the pattern isn't one company's luck, it's chaos being turned into cash across the entire trading industry.

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us politics 5 Jul 29 3 min read

Netanyahu Says He Will Attend UN General Assembly in New York Despite Mamdani's Arrest Calls

Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News's Sean Hannity he's still going to New York for the UN General Assembly in September, ICC warrant and Mayor Zohran Mamdani's arrest calls or not. Mamdani has said the city can't legally arrest Netanyahu but wants federal officials to do it instead, and Netanyahu is calling that hypocrisy dressed up as justice.

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il defense 7 Jul 29 4 min read

Syria's al-Sharaa Says Damascus Wants Security Deal With Israel, Won't Drop Golan Heights Claim

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa told Al Jazeera his government is pursuing a security agreement with Israel that could eventually open the door to a full peace deal. He's not giving up Syria's claim to the Golan Heights, and he's doing this while Israeli forces keep striking and shelling inside Syrian territory.

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us politics 7 Jul 29 4 min read

Trump Publicly Snaps at Netanyahu Over Leaked Iran Talking Points, Then Calls Meeting 'Positive'

Hours before Trump and Netanyahu sat down Tuesday, Trump told Fox & Friends he didn't need Netanyahu to brief him on Iran's Pickaxe Mountain facility through leaked press reports. The two later called the meeting productive, but the public jab exposes real strain over how to end the Iran war heading into November's midterms.

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il defense 6 Jul 28 4 min read

Report Says Golden Dome Missile Shield Ignores Cheap Drone Defense, Urges Israeli Tech Buy-In

A new report from the Jewish Institute for National Security of America warns the Pentagon's Golden Dome missile shield is over-invested in expensive space-based systems while under-investing in cheaper defenses against drones and cruise missiles, the most frequent threat. The report argues Israeli-made launchers, interceptors and radars cost dramatically less than U.S. equivalents and should be bought now, not reinvented later.

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us politics 8 Jul 28 4 min read

Netanyahu Meets Trump at White House Tuesday, First Since Iran War Began

Netanyahu sits down with Trump on Tuesday for their first in-person meeting since the Iran war started, with Israeli officials reportedly ready to present intelligence on Iranian nuclear activity at a site called Pickaxe Mountain. The two have publicly clashed before, but both sides are working to project unity in front of Iran, Lebanon, and everyone else watching.

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us defense 5 Jul 28 3 min read

Trump Adviser KT McFarland Pitches 'Slow-Rolling Regime Change' in Iran, Says She and Netanyahu See Different Endgames Than Trump

Former Trump deputy national security adviser KT McFarland told Fox Business the U.S. blockade and oil pressure could push Iran toward internal collapse without American or Israeli boots on the ground. She also said Trump and Netanyahu diverge on whether regime change is even the goal, a split that matters far more than the tactics being debated on cable news.

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us politics 7 Jul 28 3 min read

Trump Rejects Netanyahu's Objection to F-35 Sale for Turkey, Praises Erdogan Hours Before White House Meeting

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that "nobody tells me" who gets F-35s, dismissing Netanyahu's public opposition to selling the jets to Turkey. He praised Turkey and Erdogan as a "tremendous ally" while noting Israel wouldn't "survive without" US backing, hours before hosting Netanyahu at the White House Tuesday.

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il politics 6 Jul 27 3 min read

Bipartisan Support for Israel Is Eroding, and Netanyahu Owns a Piece of It

Democratic support for Israel has cratered over the past two years, with 40 of 47 Senate Democrats voting in April to block arms sales, up from 19 two years ago. Republicans aren't immune either, JD Vance is pushing Epstein-Israel conspiracy theories with zero evidence. Both parties are drifting from a decades-old bipartisan consensus, and Netanyahu's own conduct is a big reason why.

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au economy 4 Jul 27 4 min read

Australian Tribunal Grants Three Israelis the Right to Reapply for Asylum Over Gaza Conscription Fears

An Australian government tribunal ruled three Israeli siblings can reapply for protection visas after arguing forced IDF conscription could compel them to violate international humanitarian law in Gaza. The case sits at the intersection of asylum law, military conscription, and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, and it raises real questions about where legitimate objection to war conduct ends and asylum shopping begins.

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us politics 5 Jul 26 4 min read

Fetterman Rejects Lara Trump's Pitch to Switch Parties, Says He'd Leave Democrats Only If They Turn Anti-Israel

Sen. John Fetterman turned down an on-air overture from Lara Trump to become a Republican, but he's laid out the one condition that would make him bolt the Democratic Party: if it formally adopts an anti-Israel platform. His Senate colleagues, meanwhile, are openly nervous he might jump anyway.

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il defense 7 Jul 26 3 min read

Israeli Settlers Torch Two West Bank Mosques Days After Deadly Clash Near Tal

Settlers set fire to mosques in Qusra and Kour, sprayed graffiti reading "revenge," and vandalized cars and farmland, Palestinian officials say. It follows a Friday clash near Tal that killed four Palestinians and two Israelis, with the IDF now running arrest raids and Netanyahu threatening home demolitions.

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us politics 8 Jul 25 3 min read

Netanyahu Will Meet Trump Tuesday, Same Day as Lindsey Graham's Funeral in Washington

Benjamin Netanyahu flies to Washington Monday for his first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump since the Iran war began in February, then attends Lindsey Graham's funeral at the National Cathedral. The timing lands as Trump tells Axios he's weighing combat operations against Iran bigger than anything before April's ceasefire.

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gb defense 6 Jul 24 4 min read

Treasury Sanctions Muslim Brotherhood Official and Hamas Front Groups in Terror-Financing Crackdown

OFAC hit a UK-based Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader, three associates, and three organizations Thursday for funneling money to Hamas's military wing through fake charities and underground banking. It's the third such action this year, following sweeps in January and March that targeted sham medical clinics and non-profits doing the same thing.

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us politics 5 Jul 24 3 min read

Netanyahu and Zelensky Both Set for Washington Next Week, With Trump Meetings and Graham's Funeral on the Same Calendar

Since Lindsey Graham's death on July 11, his Russia sanctions push has been tangled up in Senate wrangling over Iran provisions. Now his funeral at Washington National Cathedral on July 28 is pulling in Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr Zelensky, both scheduled to meet Trump separately the same week. The overlap of a funeral, two head-of-state meetings, and stalled Ukraine peace talks is not a coincidence, it's a scheduling convenience nobody's hiding.

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il defense 8 Jul 24 4 min read

Satellite Images Show Iran Rebuilding Bombed Missile Bases Faster Than Israel Expected

New satellite imagery reviewed by the Wall Street Journal shows Iran repairing tunnel entrances, roads, a bridge, and a shipyard hit by U.S. and Israeli strikes in 2025 and March 2026. Israeli officials say the campaign collapsed entry points but left weapons stockpiles inside mountain bases largely intact, meaning Iran mostly just has to dig them back out.

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il sports 4 Jul 24 4 min read

F1 Weighs Malaysia Return as Bahrain Reinstatement Collapses Amid Renewed Iran-Israel Fighting

Formula 1 is looking at reviving the Sepang circuit in Malaysia for an October date after the collapsed ceasefire between the US and Iran killed hopes of rescheduling the cancelled Bahrain Grand Prix. Qatar and Abu Dhabi remain on the calendar for now, but F1 isn't deciding on those until mid-September at the earliest.

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il defense 6 Jul 23 4 min read

Greece Approves $4 Billion Israeli-Built Air Defense Network, 'Achilles' Shield'

Greece's security council signed off on a roughly €3.5 billion ($4 billion) missile defense package built around Israeli systems, part of a €28 billion military buildup running through 2036. The deal deepens an already tight Athens-Jerusalem defense partnership while Greece keeps one eye on Turkey.

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us defense 8 Jul 23 4 min read

Trump Ties Saudi Nuclear Deal to Israel Recognition, Says No Uranium Enrichment Allowed

Two days after the US and Saudi Arabia signed their civilian nuclear pact, Trump posted that Riyadh must join the Abraham Accords to get it, and that the deal bars uranium enrichment. That's a walk-back from earlier reporting on the deal's terms, and Israeli officials and Senate Democrats aren't buying the reassurance.

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us defense 6 Jul 22 4 min read

House Blocks Vote to Strip Israel Tech-Integration Clause From $1.15 Trillion Defense Bill, Set to Pass NDAA Wednesday

The House Rules Committee kept Section 219, which creates a Pentagon official to merge U.S. and Israeli military tech, supply chains, and industrial production, out of any standalone vote, and passed the debate rule 214-211 on Tuesday, July 21. A recorded vote on the full $1.15 trillion NDAA is expected Wednesday, with Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna vowing to vote against the whole bill over the blocked amendment.

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il defense 6 Jul 22 4 min read

Israel's Ambassador Says Lebanon Must Purge Hezbollah Sympathizers From Its Own Army Before IDF Withdraws Further

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter says the Lebanese Army has sidelined Shiite units unwilling to fight Hezbollah, and that further Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon depends entirely on whether Hezbollah gets dismantled in the newly created 'pilot zones.' Talks resumed this week in Rome, at the ambassador level only, with Beirut pushing for a faster IDF pullback and Israel demanding proof the Lebanese Army will actually confront Hezbollah.

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il defense 9 Jul 21 4 min read

Israel Stays Out of the US-Iran Fight in the Strait of Hormuz, But Only for Now

Iran has spent weeks attacking Gulf states and American forces after the US-Iran memorandum collapsed, while Israel deliberately holds fire. The reasoning: Israel already hit its own war goals earlier this year, and letting Washington handle Hormuz costs Jerusalem nothing while keeping its military threat in reserve.

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us politics 8 Jul 21 4 min read

Aoun Presses Trump for Israeli Pullback as Lebanese Army Enters Test Zones

A day after meeting Marco Rubio, Lebanon's president sat down with Trump on Tuesday to push for Israeli withdrawal under the June 26 disarmament framework. Lebanese troops have already moved into three pilot zones, but analysts on both sides doubt the Lebanese Armed Forces can actually pull Hezbollah's weapons out of the south.

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il defense 9 Jul 21 4 min read

Israel Tells US That Iran Moved Thousands of Centrifuges Into Pickaxe Mountain Before Latest Strikes

On the 10th night of American strikes on Iran, a new Israeli intelligence assessment reported by the Wall Street Journal says Iran shifted thousands of enrichment centrifuges into the deeply buried Pickaxe Mountain site after last year's war. Trump has floated hitting the facility directly, but the site sits under hundreds of meters of granite and no one, including US officials, seems sure a bunker-buster campaign can actually finish the job.

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us politics 5 Jul 20 4 min read

Trump Says Netanyahu 'Will Not Be Arrested' in US, Rejecting Mamdani's ICC Threat

Trump declared on Truth Social that Netanyahu will not be arrested on US soil, torching Mayor Zohran Mamdani's pledge to detain the Israeli PM under an ICC warrant during his expected September UN visit. Behind the bravado, Israeli officials say the real drama is whether Trump and Netanyahu even meet, with reported friction inside Trump's own administration over Iran policy.

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il politics 7 Jul 20 4 min read

Hamas Picks Hardliner Khalil al-Hayya as New Overall Leader, Beating Out Meshaal in Runoff

Hamas has elected Khalil al-Hayya, its chief ceasefire negotiator and Gaza exile chief, as its new overall leader, replacing Yahya Sinwar who was killed by Israeli forces in October 2024. Al-Hayya beat former political chief Khaled Meshaal in a runoff vote, and analysts say his win signals Hamas will resist disarmament demands tied to the Trump-brokered ceasefire.

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us politics 5 Jul 19 4 min read

US Ambassador Mike Waltz Tells Mamdani: Netanyahu Arrest Threat Is Legally Dead on Arrival

A day after Zohran Mamdani said he's in 'active discussions' about arresting Benjamin Netanyahu during his expected September UN visit, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz shot the idea down point by point, citing the Rome Statute, diplomatic protections, and federal authority. Israeli officials piled on, and even a Jewish community group told Mamdani to focus on his day job.

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us politics 4 Jul 19 3 min read

Fetterman Calls Michigan Senate Candidate El-Sayed 'Pro-Hamas,' Tells Bernie Sanders to 'Humble' Himself

Sen. John Fetterman went on Fox News and torched fellow Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, the Bernie Sanders-backed Michigan Senate candidate, calling him pro-Hamas and anti-American. It's the loudest sign yet that criticism of El-Sayed has a Democratic front, not just a Republican one. The dispute over El-Sayed's actual record on Israel and Hamas remains unresolved. Fetterman offered no citation for the 44% poll figure he referenced, and El-Sayed has not yet issued a public response.

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us politics 7 Jul 19 4 min read

Vance Tells Joe Rogan Epstein Had Ties to 'Israeli Deep State' and US Intelligence, No Evidence Offered

JD Vance told Joe Rogan that Jeffrey Epstein was connected to left-leaning elements of Israel's 'deep state' and to top American intelligence, while admitting the administration botched the Epstein files rollout. No evidence backs the intelligence claims, and Israel's former prime minister has already denied them, but the comments are reshaping how Jewish Republicans view Vance's 2028 prospects.

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us politics 7 Jul 19 4 min read

Brad Parscale's Firm Ran a $1.5 Million-a-Month Israel Campaign, Then MAGA Influencers Trashed Trump's Iran Ceasefire

Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale registered his firm Clock Tower X to run a pro-Israel influence campaign under a Foreign Agents Registration Act filing, paid $1.5 million a month by Israel through ad giant Havas. Days after Trump struck a ceasefire with Iran on June 17, MAGA-aligned influencers tied to Parscale's network attacked the deal in near-identical language, according to TIME. Nobody has proven Parscale directed the anti-ceasefire posts, but the coincidence is raising real questions about foreign-funded influence inside Trump's own base.

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il defense 6 Jul 18 4 min read

Israel's Foreign Minister Says Hamas Documents Show Covert Ownership of Gaza Flotilla Ships

Gideon Saar told a Washington counter-terrorism conference that IDF-seized Hamas documents point to covert funding and ownership of the Global Sumud Flotilla through a Spanish shell company. The Treasury Department has already sanctioned several flotilla organizers this year over alleged Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood ties, though a rights group representing one target disputes the claim.

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il politics 8 Jul 18 4 min read

Israel's Knesset Dissolves, Setting Up October 27 Election as Netanyahu Fights for Political Survival

Israel's parliament dissolved this week, locking in an October 27 national election, the first since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks. Netanyahu's coalition is polling below the 61 seats needed to govern, but a fractured opposition means nobody should assume he's finished.

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