Khaled Abu Toameh: Arabs to Biden: Do Not Sign the Iran Deal, It Will Start a War
"A few days ago, US officials announced that it was Iran, not America, that had given up core demands. They lie. Iran has not given up on anything essential. On the contrary, Iran has obtained the essential demands it wants." — Sayed Zahra, deputy editor of Bahrain's Akhbar Al-Khaleej, August 31, 2022.
"[T]he most dangerous concession made by the US was to waive the inclusion of Iran's expansionist terrorist role in the region, its threats to the security and stability of Arab countries, the terrorist subversive role that Iran's proxy militias play in the Arab countries, and the issue of the Iranian missile program." — Sayed Zahra, Akhbar Al-Khaleej, August 31, 2022.
"He [Obama] did not hide his hatred of Arabs and his admiration for Iran. What Biden is doing today is following the same path, with full conviction on his part." — Sayed Zahra, Akhbar Al-Khaleej, August 31, 2022.
"Syria has been taken hostage by a regime that is affiliated with the Iranians and Russians.... The Iranian regime...does not differ from the Taliban regime or from Islamic State (ISIS). Terrorism, destabilization, and domination of people are almost the only goals of such regimes." — Ibrahim Allush, Syrian author, Enabbaladi, August 28, 2022.
"Washington has been very late in holding Iran accountable, or at least trying to hold it accountable for the systematic sabotage that it has practiced and is practicing in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza. This is the largest international sabotage operation that the Security Council has not been able to consider. None of the Security Council resolutions related to the region's crises mentions Iran, even though its role is essential in tampering with the four countries and destroying their institutions." — Abdul Wahab Badrakhan, Lebanese journalist, Al-Watan, August 28, 2022.
"President Biden's administration is trying to create an image in the eyes of the Americans that Iran's return to the nuclear agreement will bring it under control. Washington appears to be in a weak and precarious position, especially in light of the absence of an armed option." — Emil Amin, Egyptian author, Asharq Al-Awsat, August 27, 2022.
"[I]f these billions flow into the coffers of the Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Quds Force, how will Washington guarantee the security of these countries [Gulf states, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen] ?" — Mashar Al-Thaydi, Saudi commentator, Asharq Al-Awsat, August 26, 2022.
The Arabs... appear convinced that that pouring billions of dollars on the mullahs will eventually bring terrorism and violence to the US and the other Western powers involved in the new deal, if not a major war.
Report: UN refugee agency accepted $50 million from US-designated terrorist group
The U.N. agency responsible for assisting refugees globally has accepted $50 million in donations from a U.S.-designated terror organization, according to a report from a pro-Israel advocacy group.
The Union of Good is a Saudi Arabia-based umbrella organization consisting of more than 50 Islamic charities and funds. It is designated by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group, which allows the United States to block the assets of foreign individuals and entities that commit, or pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism.
The international nonprofit Israel-education organization StandWithUs recently uncovered that member charities of the Union of Good fundraising organization, designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2008 for supporting terrorism, have channeled the money to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
Since 2012, the UNHCR has accepted approximately $49 million from the Qatar Charity, along with another $4.75 million from the Eid Charity over the last two years. Eid Charity founder Abdul Rahman Al Nuaimi has been designated as a terrorist by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the U.N. Security Council for his support of Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen.
Addameer is a terrorist group and affiliate of PFLP. Shtayyeh literally signs of on PA salary checks to murderers of Jews & Israelis.
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) September 6, 2022
This is what #EU refers to as “likeminded.”@eu_eeas @EUpalestinians @EUinIsrael https://t.co/OklaqhzhEx
It’s come to light that antisemite Linda Sarsour and her group ‘Mpower Change’ are behind Ariel Koren’s sudden attack on Google over their business relationship with Israel.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) September 6, 2022
Hamas is also endorsing Koren#NoTechForApartheidCampaign ?? pic.twitter.com/75odWzw7nD
Turkey state media, clearly with approval from the top levels, slams Israel's partnership with Google, even as Ankara pretends it is doing outreach to Israel; Ankara's state propaganda media might be more believable on these critiques if Ankara wasn't suppressing dissent...
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) September 6, 2022
Palestinian covid handouts for needy went to bankers, wealthy officials and Palestinian diplomats
Palestinian officials, bankers and diplomats fraudulently received Covid aid payments intended to help the poorest West Bank families.
A report by the Palestinian Authority (PA) State Audit Bureau found that some beneficiaries of the £15 million Covid relief fund — for “the neediest and most marginalised” — were working from home on £4,000 a month.
They were still in well-paid jobs at PA ministries, universities, banks and telecommunications firms.
Although the fund was set up by the local private sector and Arab donors, the revelations raise serious questions about Britain’s involvement in propping up the notoriously corrupt PA.
Since 2008, the British taxpayer has given the PA regime about £640 million, mainly through donations for spending on health and education. On top of this, since 2011, £65 million has gone to support the PA security services, the brutality of which the JC disclosed last week.
The Palestinian audit found that up to six members of the same family had received Covid payments, when only one was allowed.
Aid was also given to people registered as directors of profitable companies or who had large shareholdings in stock exchange listed enterprises.
The corruption of the scheme — known as Waqfet Ezz, or the “Stand with Dignity” Fund — has been ignored by the international media.
Seth Frantzman: What must Israel learn from Abu Akleh killing?
Three months after Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in Jenin, Israel has said she was likely killed by Israeli forces. Can Israel learn from this experience and do better next time?Palestinians reject IDF probe into Shireen Abu Akleh killing, vow to bring case to ICC
This isn’t just a question of making sure civilians are not killed by mistake; it’s also about learning from what the soldiers did and how the authorities dealt with this incident.
The new language from the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit on Monday was, “There is a high possibility that Shireen was accidentally hit by IDF gunfire that was fired toward suspects identified as armed Palestinian gunmen, during an exchange of fire in which life-risking, widespread and indiscriminate shots were fired toward IDF soldiers.”
“The Israel Defense Forces’ admission of guilt is late and incomplete. They provided no name for Shireen Abu Akleh’s killer and no other information than his or her own testimony that the killing was a mistake,” the CPJ said in a statement.
As Israel continues to look at this incident, a key question should be how subsequent operations can learn from the mistakes made here. This includes going back to the briefing before these kinds of raids take place and looking at what intelligence is being provided to the troops.
Israel has become proficient at precision strikes and at pushing intelligence to frontline forces. This is a key part of the Momentum five-year plan. A plethora of new technology and digital and artificial intelligence resources are being put in the hands of ground forces.
These kinds of technologies need to be employed correctly. Algorithms only work when you put in the correct data. So you have to ask the right questions and establish the right parameters around operations. Israel often conducts small raids like the one on Jenin, so it behooves Israeli forces to see what in the system can be improved.
The Palestinian Authority on Monday rejected the results of the IDF investigation into the murder of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, and vowed to bring her case before the International Criminal Court (ICC).70% Of Media Bury Lede as IDF Probe Confirms Soldiers Did Not Intentionally Fire at Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh
The IDF report on the killing of Abu Akleh is “a new Israeli attempt to evade responsibility for her murder,” the PA said.
The PA was responding to the IDF investigation that found there was a high possibility that Abu Akleh was killed by an IDF soldier during a gunfight in Jenin back in May.
“All the evidence, facts and investigations that were conducted prove that Israel killed Shireen, and it must bear responsibility for its crime,” PA presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudaineh said.
The Palestinian leadership, Abu Rudaineh said, will continue to follow up the case of Abu Akleh with all relevant international bodies, especially the ICC.
“Israel will not be allowed to escape punishment for its ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people and their Islamic and Christian holy sites,” he added.
The publication of the IDF probe — which included extensive interviews with those involved, as well as the review of “visual documentation collected from various sources” — provided the media with an opportunity to reflect and correct articles that falsely accused the Jewish state of killing Abu Akleh in a targeted attack.
However, an HonestReporting analysis makes clear that some of the world’s major media organizations are evidently unrepentant. Indeed, less than 30 percent of headlines produced on Monday and Tuesday noted the fact that Abu Akleh was, in all probability, killed in error.
By publishing ambiguous headlines, CNN, the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, and HuffPost effectively buried the lede.
As HonestReporting has repeatedly stressed, at a time when roughly eight-in-ten Americans consume their news on digital devices, headlines are often the first and last thing people read — regardless of the story.
Given the way in which information is consumed, some eight out of ten people read an article’s headline and get no further. Headlines are also the part of a news item that tends to be shared most on social media.
To their credit, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and Reuters were among the few prominent outlets whose headlines conveyed the full story.
In its reporting on the Abu Akleh probe, CNN took editorializing to a whole new level. Blatantly misrepresenting the Israeli determinations, Jerusalem correspondent Hadas Gold told viewers of CNN’s The Situation Room that “this IDF, Israel Defense Forces, investigation essentially comes to the same conclusion that several investigations, including CNN’s own, has [sic] come to.”
Yet the network’s farcical May 24 “investigation,” which HonestReporting dissected in an in-depth critique, outrageously claimed that the Al Jazeera journalist was not killed by a “random shot,” but was “targeted” — suggestive of an act of murder.
The CNN website on Monday similarly claimed that “footage obtained by CNN… suggested that Abu Akleh was shot dead in a targeted attack by Israeli forces.”
By contrast, the IDF inquiry concluded that Israeli soldiers did not commit any criminal act in Jenin.
?? My statement on behalf of @The_ILF regarding outcome of @IDF investigation into circumstances that led to tragic death of journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh:
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) September 5, 2022
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IDF knew about Syrian nuclear reactor 5 years before destroying it
IDF intelligence assessed that Syria was developing a nuclear reactor five years before it was destroyed by Israeli jets in Operation Outside the Box in 2007, the IDF Spokesperson Unit revealed on Tuesday.
Material released for the 15th anniversary of the operation showed that already in September 2002 Military Intelligence knew that Syria was beginning a classified nuclear project that Israel had not known of before.
In the intelligence report released by the IDF on Tuesday, Military Intelligence assessed that the information that they had did not point toward an active military project but that it was dealing with several issues that could contribute to the beginning of such a program.
That secretive Syria project later turned out to be the nuclear reactor that Damascus was building in the deserts of Deir al-Zor.
The Mossad confirmed the existence of the Syrian reactor in March 2007, when the agency obtained photographs of the reactor that was being built in the northeastern Deir al-Zor province, close to the Euphrates River.
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ANTI-ISRAEL YOUTUBER Harasses Jews in New York | The Israel Guys
Arab terrorists who opened fire on a bus full of IDF soldiers yesterday failed to escape the scene after their car caught on fire from the firebomb they were trying to throw at the bus.
An IDF soldier was wounded in a stabbing attack near Hebron on Friday by a Palestinian Arab from Bethlehem. Thankfully the terrorist was shot before he was able to kill the soldier.
Former Knesset Member Yehudah Glick was detained on the Temple Mount Sunday morning after he played the sound of a shofar on his cell phone. Why is there this crazy reality on the Temple Mount for Jews today?
Anti-Israel YouTuber @Dulla Mulla went viral after harassing Orthodox Jews on the streets of New York about what is happening in “Palestine.” Surprise surprise, none of his statements were based on facts.
Emily Schrader: Palestinian are pawns in the Ramon Airport fiasco
Last month, Israel agreed to ease the crowded border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan by opening Eilat’s Ramon Airport to Palestinians.Palestinians Must Break With Their Violent Past and Present
The new plan would allow Palestinians with valid permits to fly out of Eilat rather than making a cumbersome journey to fly out of Amman’s airport ,where Palestinian families often have extraordinary waiting times both in and out of Jordan, having to pass through an Israeli check, Palestinian check and a Jordanian check. Additionally, Palestinians are forced to pay a fee at the Amman airport.
But instead of welcoming the change intended to ease the lives of Palestinians, both Jordan and the Palestinian Authority have come out against the (mutually agreed upon) plan because it involves “normalization” with Israel. Once again we see that not only are the Palestinian leaders more concerned with optics than the well-being of their own people, but Jordan is too.
In the case of the PA, the idea that it opposes such a deal is patently absurd given that it’s the one who negotiated with Israel on the issue in the first place. Yet once again, once it is public that the Palestinian leaders are working with Israel to improve something in the lives of innocent Palestinians, the PA switches sides and not only criticizes the efforts of Israel, but threatens to punish Palestinians who take advantage of eased restrictions.
Just as Palestinians have been threatened and criticized for taking higher-paying jobs in settlements, so too Palestinians are being threatened if they fly out of Ramon Airport, at least according to Palestinian Transportation Minister Assem Salem, who came out publicly against the new initiative. Among the punitive measures the Palestinian government is discussing is a refusal to renew Palestinian passports for any Palestinian who flies out of Ramon.
Furthermore, Palestinian travel companies, which saw a massive influx of requests to travel abroad through Ramon Airport, have also been “warned” by the Palestinian government not to assist Palestinians with traveling abroad through Israel.
Another factor pushing the PA to sabotage the Ramon initiative is that Jordan is fiercely against it, but not because they care about Palestinians. Amman airport has become a hub for international travel for Palestinians, with approximately 3 million Palestinians traveling every year through Queen Alia International Airport. This occurs despite the fact there are endless complaints about how Palestinians are treated by the Jordanians themselves.
There has long been a running joke that a book or museum of Palestinian history or culture is necessarily blank or empty. It is well-known that neither a Palestinian history nor an independent Palestinian culture exist.
Another well-known maxim is that Palestinian nationalism only exists in opposition to Jewish nationalism, and was only created with the advent and widespread acceptance of Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people to return to their indigenous and ancestral homeland.
Unfortunately for the Palestinians and their supporters, they have now basically admitted this is true.
According to a recent report, visitors to a Palestinian museum just north of Ramallah are invited to take part in an interactive exhibit called “The Intifada,” in which one can throw virtual rocks, seemingly at Israelis.
Apparently, the violent throwing of deadly weapons in the hope of killing someone is a central part of Palestinian identity.
While other cultures venerate their nation’s contributions to humanity—their technological advances, authors, entertainers and sportsmen and women—Palestinians see a potential murder and a war against innocent civilians as a supremely edifying aspect of national culture.
This should explain the roots of Palestinian rejectionism. This rejectionism is not a byproduct of experience or a founding myth, but the very essence of the Palestinian national movement’s ongoing existence.
2. Is it against the “well-being of Palestinian refugee children” to denounce that 100+ UNRWA staff incited terror & glorified Hitler, Mr. @UNLazzarini?
— Transatlantic Inst. (@AJCTAI) September 6, 2022
Take UNRWA teacher G.N. Ghoneim who posted photos of Hitler, blessing him as “honorable” & “beloved.”
Credit: @HillelNeuer pic.twitter.com/EmVB0qo3MW
A former student of Anata boys school, an @UNRWA school in East Jerusalem, opens up about what he and his siblings learned in class a children and the ugly incitement to violence that pushes any form of resolution further away.
— Emily Schrader - ????? ?????? (@emilykschrader) September 5, 2022
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“The Martyr’s blood and gunfire” built the state of “Palestine”
Lyrics: “Palestine is a state built on struggle
With the Martyr's blood, with gunfire
It [Palestine] will restore the plant to its land
It will bring home those who are distant…
It will return the stolen [property] to its inhabitants
So that Arab honor will not be degraded”
[Official PA TV, Trip, Aug. 11, 2022]
IDF Has Arrested 1,500 Terror Operatives, ‘Lack of Governance’ By The PA in West Bank to Blame For Violence: Chief of Staff
The Israeli military arrested around 1,500 terror operatives and thwarted hundreds of attacks in the months since undertaking a major operation to stem an uptick in Palestinian violence, its chief of staff said Monday.
“In light of a severe increase in the scope of attacks in the West Bank, the IDF launched Operation Breakwater a few months ago, and significantly increased its counterterrorism activities,” said Lt. Col. Aviv Kochavi at a military convention on Monday.
The operation was launched in response to a surge in terrorism by Palestinian and Arab Israeli perpetrators beginning in March, which has left more than 80 people killed or injured in various shooting, stabbing, ramming, and firebombing attacks as of last month. Attacks have taken place in cities including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Beersheba, Haifa, Hadera, Elad, and Bnei Brak, as well as in the West Bank.
As part of Operation Breakwater, “so far some 1,500 wanted persons have been arrested and hundreds of terrorist attacks have been thwarted,” said Kochavi, according to a statement shared by the military.
The increase in terrorism stems, in part, from the failure of the Palestinian Authority’s security forces, “leading to a lack of governance in certain areas of the West Bank, which constitute fertile ground for the growth of terrorism,” the chief of staff said.
“Our mission is to thwart terrorism — for that purpose, we will reach every city, neighborhood, alley, house or basement,” added Kochavi, who will retire from his post in January. “Our activity will continue and we are prepared to increase it as needed.”
At least 88 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces so far this year, according to the Palestinian Authority health ministry. The number includes terrorists who carried out attacks inside Israel and Palestinian youth who have violently confronted Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
Palestinians threw an explosive device, petrol bombs at Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem. pic.twitter.com/t3OJNBrN98
— Khaled Abu Toameh (@KhaledAbuToameh) September 5, 2022
Clashes Erupt as IDF Razes Dizengoff Shooter’s Jenin Home
The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday night demolished the Jenin home of the terrorist that carried out a deadly attack in Tel Aviv in April.
The demolition went ahead after a petition from the terrorists’ families was rejected by the Supreme Court on May 30, 2022.
Violent clashes broke out during the demolition, with rioters burning tires and hurling stones, firebombs and explosive devices at Israeli troops, who responded with riot dispersal tools.
No Israeli casualties were reported.
R’aam Hazam, 28, opened fire on a crowded pub on Dizengoff Street on April 7, 2022, killing three Israeli civilians and wounding 15. He then fled on foot to Jaffa, where he was killed in a firefight with Israel Security Agency agents.
“As you know, our forces succeeded in reaching the terrorist from the Dizengoff Street attack within a few hours and eliminated him,” then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the Cabinet on April 10.
“The State of Israel will do everything necessary to overcome this terrorism. We will settle accounts with everyone who was linked, either directly or indirectly, to the attacks. … The State of Israel has gone on offense,” he said.
Inside the apartment after the demolition. pic.twitter.com/Mg2t6ERKwN
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) September 6, 2022
IED detonated moments before an IDF vehicle arrived. pic.twitter.com/x4oNzwQ4rc
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) September 5, 2022
Muhammed Sabaaneh who was killed during clashes in Jenin overnight. There have not been any official statements made by militant groups claiming him. pic.twitter.com/yJ6ncvJq57
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) September 6, 2022
UN condemns Hamas’s execution of five Gazans
The United Nations on Monday denounced as a violation of international law Hamas’s execution earlier this week of five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
“We condemn the execution of five prisoners in Gaza and urge the de facto authorities in Gaza to establish a moratorium on all executions,” said Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the U.N.’s human-rights commissioner, in a statement.
“Having ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as a matter of international law, Palestine is obliged to abolish executions,” she added.
The U.N. General Assembly voted in 2012 to give the Palestinians non-member observer state status, which has since allowed them to sign dozens of international treaties and conventions.
Shamdasani noted that three of the men executed were convicted of murder, and two on charges of “collaboration” with Israel dating back to 2015 and 2009.
Lebanese Politician Firas Al-Shoufi: We Should Bomb All of Israel’s Offshore Oil Rigs; We Can Only Get What Is Rightfully Ours by Force #Lebanon #Israel @firasshoufi pic.twitter.com/lGEc9lt58t
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) September 6, 2022
Houthi Music Video Threatening Israel: The Zionists Will Be Disgraced, Jerusalem Will Be Cleansed of the Filth of the Jews #Yemen #Houthis #antisemitism pic.twitter.com/LEBpy11du1
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) September 6, 2022
Senator says Biden administration committed to congressional review of Iran deal
Robert Menendez, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, said on Monday that the Biden administration had committed to submitting any agreement on Iran’s nuclear program to Congress for review.US Ambassador: ‘We Will Never Tie Israel’s Hands’ on Iran
Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem, Menendez, a Democrat who opposed the original 2015 Iran deal known as the JCPOA, said such a review would be conducted by his committee and that a vote would be held in the Senate on any agreement.
He added, however, that he was “unsure” if the outcome of that vote would successfully block the agreement.
It is likely that any congressional review of an agreement reached by the Biden administration with Iran would require a two-thirds majority to be overturned, making it improbable that any deal, should one be signed, could be stopped by the Senate.
Menendez, the senior senator for New Jersey, is participating in a bipartisan Senate delegation to Israel, which is being led by Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina (Republican), and includes Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi (R), Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee (R), Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming (R), and Representative Ronny Jackson of Texas (R).
“The administration has made the commitment that if they enter into an agreement to follow on from what was the JCPOA, they will submit it to Congress and we will review it. That review starts in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which I chair,” said Menendez at the press conference.
US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides said Monday that the Biden administration is committed to preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and that its commitment to Israel’s security is “iron clad,” though he also emphasized that the White House wants a “diplomatic solution” to the issue.Standing next to an F-35 fighter jet, Lapid issues warning to Iran: ‘Don’t test us’
Speaking with journalists in Jerusalem, Nides emphasized, “We stand by Israel to make sure Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon. That is also in our national security interest, and we’ve repeated that over and over again.”
He reiterated previous pledges made to Israel by President Joe Biden, saying, “We will never tie Israel’s hands in the event that Israel needs to defend itself.”
“We understand the aggression of Iran and we will never tie Israel’s hands,” Nides repeated, adding that Biden had made this “very clear” to Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
However, he qualified, “We would like a diplomatic solution” to the Iranian nuclear issue, “but only under the conditions the president laid out with our European colleagues.”
“There’s many gaps and conditions” Nides said of the ongoing negotiations, which “have not been resolved yet.”
Biden, the ambassador assured reporters, “has shown he sticks to principles. His principle is he supports the State of Israel and the security of the State of Israel and that is what we refer to as iron clad.”
Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Tuesday it was too soon to know if Israel had succeeded in thwarting the emerging nuclear agreement between world powers and Iran, which it sees as harmful.
Lapid, who was on a visit to the Nevatim airbase in southern Israel, which houses the Israeli Air Force’s fleet of advanced F-35 fighter jets, also issued a warning to Iran.
“It is still too early to know if we have indeed succeeded in stopping the nuclear agreement, but Israel is prepared for every threat and every scenario,” Lapid said in a brief statement in front of an F-35.
“If Iran continues to test us, it will discover Israel’s long arm and capabilities. We will continue to act on all fronts against terrorism and against those who seek to harm us,” he said.
“As [US] President [Joe] Biden and I agreed, Israel has full freedom to act as we see fit to prevent the possibility of Iran becoming a nuclear threat,” Lapid added.
Israel has been pressuring the US not to reenter the 2015 nuclear accord. A senior defense official said last month that Israel had two main issues with the emerging deal: the so-called sunset clause, which would lift limitations on Iran’s nuclear program when the accord expires; and sanctions relief that would allow Iran to increase funding to its proxies.
Prime Minister Lapid: "If Iran continues to test us, it will discover Israel’s long arm and capabilities. We will continue to act on all fronts against terrorism and against those who seek to harm us. pic.twitter.com/REx5dX3nT2
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) September 6, 2022
A month ago, the Europeans, acting (one presumes) in close coordination with Team Biden, delivered yet another “take it or leave it” offer to Tehran. But the negotiations continue. “Take it or leave it” never means “take it or leave it.” The US has no Plan B. Tehran knows that. https://t.co/28ZM93djYV
— Mike (@Doranimated) September 6, 2022
House cleaner sentenced to 3 years for snooping on Gantz for Iranian hackers
A former cleaner at Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s private residence who was charged with spying for Iranian hackers late last year will serve three years in prison as part of a plea deal reached with the prosecution, the Rishon Lezion District Court ruled Tuesday.
Lod resident Omri Goren, 38, was found guilty of attempting to pass on information to an enemy entity. Under the plea deal, the espionage charges that were originally included in the indictment were dropped.
“[Goren] is not a spy and this isn’t a spying scandal,” said attorneys Gal Wolf and Anat Yaari, Goren’s representatives from the public defender’s office, after his sentencing.
“This is about a man who found himself entangled in debt and identified a security breach,” they added.
Goren largely admitted to the allegations against him throughout the investigation but repeatedly denied that he knowingly offered to help Iran.
Iranian media reported three new military vessels joined the IRGC Navy including a stealth ship named after Qassem Soleimani. pic.twitter.com/riNHeTWkB4
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) September 5, 2022
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi: The Despicable Practice of Homosexuality Is Used by Modern Countries to Demonstrate That They Are Civilized; This Is the Same Thing as the Jahiliyah That Preceded Islam #Iran #homophobia pic.twitter.com/KXmcWXuApo
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) September 6, 2022
“We're Iranian LGBTQIs, we exist and we fall in love”
— Emily Schrader - ????? ?????? (@emilykschrader) September 5, 2022
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PreOccupiedTerritory: Oppressed, Poor Iranians: At Least Hezbollah, Hamas Will Enjoy Nuclear Deal Riches (satire)
Conversations with ordinary Iranians over the weekend bore out the widespread sentiment of consolation over the fact that at least Hezbollah and Hamas, for example, will reap the cash and other rewards the mullahs have extorted from the Biden administration and European governments as the latter seek to reach a renewal of the 2015 agreement that, in theory, subjected Iran’s nuclear facilities to inspection and limited its ability to produce atomic weapons – even if regular citizens of the Islamic Republic will never see any of that money, nor any improvement in their lives as a result.
“You have to be grateful for what you do have,” stated Navid Meshed, 34. “At least I’m not getting hanged from a crane for being gay. At least only two of my relatives are being tortured in Evin Prison. At least the government’s pandemic response to COVID left my family 40% intact. And at least Hezbollah will be able to kill Israelis as indiscriminately as they kill Lebanese. Some important things will come out of it.”
“I had hoped we could afford diabetes treatments for my daughter,” said Shirin Ghassabian, 40. “Or maybe enough prosperity for us to forget every now and then that we live under cruel oppressors who see a woman’s uncovered hair as more problematic than sending bombers to destroy Jewish community centers in Argentina. But if we can’t have that, we’ll have to settle for paying Palestinian Islamic Jihad to launch rockets at Jews and kill more Gaza Palestinians than Israeli Jews in the process. You can’t get everything you want.”
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