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Continued operations on Islamic Republic of Iran, proxies , May 4 2026+ - sources: Pt II (view source)
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US accuses Miliband of ‘Jew hate’ over Gaza video. By Melanie Swan, Telegraph, September 6, 2026.
The US ambassador to Israel has accused the British Government of “Jew hate” over Ed Miliband’s claims that medicines were being blocked from entering Gaza.
Mike Huckabee made the comment after the Foreign Secretary posted a video describing accounts he had heard from people who had worked inside the strip.
“Frankly, it was horrific, what is unfolding,” said Mr Miliband. “The stories that people were telling me of medicines being blocked, children dying while waiting for vital life-saving treatment.”
Mr Huckabee wrote on X: “The Brits have lost it. The Jew hate of their Government knows no boundaries and knows no facts.”
Israel’s foreign ministry hit out at Mr Miliband, saying: “If the Foreign Secretary were interested in facts rather than stories, he would know that there are no restrictions whatsoever on the entry of medicines into the Gaza Strip, and that no medicines are being blocked.”
However, there have been widespread reports – which have been corroborated by international NGOs – of medicine shortages inside Gaza throughout the war, including cases highlighted by The Telegraph in which chemotherapy drugs have run out mid-treatment.
[https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/us-accuses-miliband-jew-hate-101851497.html Yahoo]
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Three arrested in France over suspected ISIS plot targeting Jews. By Itamar Eichner, Ynet News, September 6, 2026.
Three men have been arrested in France on suspicion of advancing a jihadist plot in which they considered joining the Islamic State in Africa and carrying out an attack against the Jewish community in France….
The investigation was opened in early July following jihadist activity detected among members of a WhatsApp group called “Soldiers of Allah.” Based on information gathered during the investigation, the three suspects were arrested. The main suspicion is that they were preparing to leave France in order to join ISIS in Africa, while investigators also suspect they considered carrying out a “violent action” targeting the Jewish community….
Another detail adding sensitivity to the case is a possible connection between one of the suspects in France and a woman arrested in the United States in August on suspicion of planning, on behalf of ISIS, to carry out a bombing attack at the New York State Capitol.
According to a report by RTL, the woman is 35-year-old Jessica Bowie, who is suspected in the United States of planning the attack. A source close to the French investigation confirmed to AFP that “there is a connection between one of the suspects brought before the judge and a woman arrested by the FBI in the United States.”…
[https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/ry0yngs00fg YNet]
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Who were the hijackers of 9/11? Here's what the 9/11 Commission Report said.
A detailed examination of the hijackers by the 9/11 Commission Report reveals the backgrounds and motivations of the 19 men involved.
Author: TEGNA Digital.
Published: 4:39 PM CDT September 8, 2026
[https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/history/remembering-911/september-11-hijacker-names/507-1bdb673b-bcf6-4ea2-b527-f66414ed74fc KSDK]
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Smelling Blood.
Steyn Online | 8 Sep 2026 | Mark Steyn.
In a few days, America will be marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11. The observances will be muted here, because it's too sad: we lost the war, not only in the narrow military sense (the Taliban are back in power in Kabul, etc), but in the broader defeat represented by the post-Motoon surrender on free speech, the nightly invasions by Muslim men of English and Continental ports, the ugly security procedures that now attend the bollard-encircled ancient German Christmas markets, and ultimately the reorientation of the generally useless post-9/11 surveillance state as a tool of domestic control. As I wrote on Sunday:
An al-Qaeda guy has been installed with American approval as strongman of Syria; the Christian community in Iraq was extinguished on America's watch; the Libyan intervention delivered the North African ports closest to Europe into the hands of Isis, with direct consequences for Continental demographics; and - just to confirm the 'war on terror' was utterly lost and always misconceived - a Shia Twelver from Uganda who believes in everything the guys we're droning in Tehran believe is Giuliani's successor as Mayor of New York City and the new kingmaker of the Democrat Party. If the United States Government had been working for the other side all along, what exactly would it have done differently?
In the media, the month before 9/11 was a weird, accelerating accumulation of trivial preoccupations, culminating in the ludicrous western prostrations before an international racism conference. Indeed, August 2001 seems far more relevant to where we are now than September 11th does.....
For Americans, September 11th brought to a close the post-Cold War era, the period that began with the fall of the Berlin Wall. For a significant proportion of Muslims, September 11th was the culmination of a quite different timeline - an era that was inaugurated on October 23rd 1983, when Hezbollah suicide bombers killed 300 American and French soldiers in Beirut and prompted their governments to pull out of Lebanon. From a Muslim point of view, the suicide bomber is as reliable as the Maxim gun was: sometimes he brings victory, as in Beirut; sometimes he attracts a barely minimal response, as in Bill Clinton's desultory retaliations to bin Laden's ever more brazen provocations during the Nineties; and sometimes he is rewarded by public admonitions to his victims, as when the EU et al urge "restraint" on the part of Israel after Hamas or Islamic Jihad have blown up a few more pregnant women in a shopping mall.
[https://www.steynonline.com/16396/smelling-blood SteynOnline]
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More Than 5,000 Leaders Across Entertainment, Academia and Public Life Unite to Reject “Genocide” Accusation Against Israel.
Boris Johnson, Deborah Lipstadt, Sir Niall Ferguson, Shari Redstone, Steven Pinker, Benny Morris, Sherry Lansing, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, Irwin Cotler, Debra Messing and thousands of others reject the genocide accusation against Israel and warn that it fuels antisemitism worldwide
LOS ANGELES (Sept. 9, 2026) — ...
'We the undersigned are outraged and sickened by the latest blood libel to be inflicted on the Jewish people: the lie that Israel committed “genocide” in Gaza. We reject this accusation with contempt.
There is a vigorous debate within the Jewish community over aspects of how this war was fought, and that is a sign of moral health. So is our pain over every innocent life lost. But we must unite in repudiating the lie of genocide.
The unprecedented combat conditions of the war – hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, thousands of boobytrapped homes – the conflating of combatants with “journalists” and “human rights workers,” the ratio of civilian-to-terrorist casualties, considered low for asymmetrical urban warfare, the absence of mass starvation despite repeated claims of imminent catastrophe, the warnings given to civilians before attack: All these factors were erased in the eagerness to indict Israel for genocide.
A crucial difference between war as tragedy and war as genocide is intent. In this war, only one side intended to commit genocide, and that is Hamas.
To accuse Israel of genocide, the massacre of October 7 has been systematically downplayed, while Israeli actions have been distorted and amplified. Israel went to war on October 8 not out of vengeance, as its detractors claim, but to break the Iranian-led siege of terror enclaves on its borders, and to restore its deterrence, without which it cannot survive in the long term in the Middle East. Thousands of rockets and missiles were fired at Israel in the weeks following the massacre, while Hamas starved and tortured 250 Israelis, some of whom were murdered in captivity.
The classic definition of genocide has been changed to apply only to the Gaza war – just as anti-Israel NGOs changed the definition of apartheid and colonialism to apply only to Israel.
Already on October 8, as Israel was still fighting terrorists within its border communities and hadn’t yet begun burying its dead, anti-Zionists began raising the cry of “genocide.” In fact, Israel’s enemies have been accusing it of genocide for decades.
The accusation of genocide has become a pretext for excluding, attacking and even murdering Jews around the world. Its purpose is to delegitimize Jewish self-determination and to turn the only Jewish state into the world’s arch criminal and pariah.
The bitter irony is that Israel, home to half the world’s Jews, is the only country to face a sustained war of attempted genocide – from its inception in 1948 until today.
We note with astonishment but not surprise the overwhelming silence of Israel’s defamers in the face of the atrocities of Iran – perhaps 30,000 civilians murdered in two days, one of the great crimes of our time. Anti-Zionism is not the defender of conscience but its betrayer.
We urge our fellow Jews and our non-Jewish friends to treat the accusation of genocide with revulsion – as the latest in a long history of lies about the Jewish people. “A lie has no legs,” notes the ancient Hebrew proverb.
We will not allow this lie to stand.'
[https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/blog/2026/09/08/rejectlie/ Creative Community for Peace]
More than 5,000 leaders, public figures sign letter rejecting ‘genocide’ accusation against Israel.
“It’s an hour of crisis,” Deborah Lipstadt, former U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, told JNS. “I think it’s a time when you have to try every avenue.”
Jessica Russak-Hoffman, Izzy Salant.
Sep 9, 2026.
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The letter, released by the nonprofit Creative Community for Peace, says the genocide accusation “has become a dangerous vehicle for scapegoating Jews and fueling antisemitism around the world.”
“We, the undersigned, are outraged and sickened by the latest blood libel to be inflicted on the Jewish people: the lie that Israel committed ‘genocide’ in Gaza. We reject this accusation with contempt,” the letter states.
“There is a vigorous debate within the Jewish community over aspects of how this war was fought, and that is a sign of moral health. So is our pain over every innocent life lost. But we must unite in repudiating the lie of genocide,” it reads. (JNS sought comment from CCFP.)
Lipstadt said the accusations are having a tangible effect on Jews.
“There’s a full-throated attack on Jews,” she told JNS. “When you hear of kids who are putting together their resumes not wanting to mention they were Jewish Studies majors, it’s coming down to the granular.”
“Of course the bigger things, too,” she said, pointing to violent attacks targeting Jewish communities, including the March terrorist attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., the April stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, London, and an August arson attack that destroyed the Nöam kosher restaurant in Montreal.
“Those are the things that grab our attention, but it’s also having a granular effect,” she said, noting that Jewish events routinely require security and describing the expense as a “tax.”
Lisptadt told JNS that while Jew-hatred “used to be seen as something that is wrong, illegitimate and prejudicial, now there’s an attack on those who will call out antisemitism.”
“No longer do we have to fight just the antisemitism, but we have to fight those who would say it’s all performative, it’s all phony, it’s not real,” she said. “We’ve seen it before with Holocaust denial.”
[https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/more-than-5-000-leaders-public-figures-sign-letter-rejecting-genocide-accusation-against-israel JNS]
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Sweden: Minister of Education Wears Star of David as a Sign of Solidarity.
An intentional challenge to a "Lefty Party".
September 9, 2026.
By Hugh Fitzgerald.
Sweden is experiencing, like so many European countries, a wave of antisemitism; the many Muslim migrants that the country has taken in are fueling it. But one migrant, Simona Mohammson, Sweden’s Minister of Education, and an ex-Muslim, in a sign of solidarity with Swedish Jews has been wearing a Star of David. More on this unusual woman can be found here: “Boy George Isn’t Alone: Watch a Muslim-Born Swedish Politician’s Courageous Stand for Jews,” by Aaron Hanscom, PJ Media, August 19, 2026:
After the December 2025 Bondi Beach terrorist attack in which 15 people were shot and killed during a Chanukah celebration, Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch delivered a powerful message of support for the Jewish people. She stated that the massacre in Australia was a warning about how dangerous “globalize the intifada” rhetoric can become. Busch also said that with the rapid rise of antisemitism throughout the world, even wearing a Star of David can put one in danger and that Jews have a right to live safely in Sweden.
Since she made those remarks, the situation for the Jewish community in Sweden, which at 20,000 people is the largest in Scandinavia, has only gotten worse. The Swedish Union of Jewish Youth released a report after October 7, “We Are Not Welcome Here,” containing findings from a survey of Jewish students and university employees. A shocking 90% of respondents said they felt that safety at universities had gotten worse since October 7, and 70% had low or very low confidence that societal institutions could help them if they experienced antisemitism.
That antisemitism was on display at a July 2025 anti-Israel protest held in the city of Umeå. Hanging from gallows were mannequins dressed in Nazi concentration camp uniforms with Stars of David and prisoner numbers on them. A banner with the words “Genocide is genocide is genocide” was prominently displayed, and of course the “baby killer” lie was represented by a figure wearing a keffiyeh and holding a baby doll, surrounded by Palestinian flags.
And where is most of this antisemitism coming from? Suzan Quitaz answered that question in a 2024 piece for the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs:
'Numerous studies and surveys have shown there is a correlation between Islamism and the rise of contemporary antisemitism in Western societies, including Sweden. In regards to Sweden, Islam, in a short time, has become the second biggest religion in Sweden. Approximately 20% of Sweden’s 10 million population are of non-Swedish origin; according to some estimations, 810,000 Muslims live in Sweden.15 Sweden, like other European countries, has experienced a massive surge of refugees and immigrants since 2010. The majority of them were Muslims. Between 2014 and 2016, Sweden was second after Germany in taking in refugees, mainly Syrians fleeing the civil war; it took in over 200,000, with 77% being Muslims.16
The civil war in Syria is over. Will the Swedish government now return the tens of thousands of Syrian “refugees” to their country, as they no longer have cause to fear being caught in an ongoing war?
Amid this surge in antisemitism, a Muslim-born Swedish politician’s bold action this week takes on added significance. The leader of Sweden’s Liberal Party, Simona Mohamsson, wore a Star of David necklace during a debate with party leaders Monday. “I wear the Star of David for the children who do not dare to in today’s Sweden,” Mohamsson, who is also Sweden’s minister of education, said. Daniel Schatz, author of Sweden’s Relations with Israel and the Palestinians: An Untold History, called it a “striking” moment because Mohamsson “chose to wear the very symbol many Swedish Jews now fear to display.”…'
I have enormous respect for non-Jews like Mohammson and Boy George who have the courage to stand with Jews and Israel, and I’ll continue to highlight their bravery whenever I can.
Those are the words of journalist Aaron Hanscom, the writer of this report. He’s done right by Simona Mohammson, “highlighting her bravery” in standing up for the Jews of Sweden. Let us all go and do likewise, for other mohammsons who swim into our ken.
[https://www.frontpagemag.com/sweden-minister-of-education-wears-star-of-david-as-a-sign-of-solidarity/ FPM]
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Mamdani’s Terror Lawyer Ramzi Kassem Lies About His 9/11 Response.
"9/11 ought to be recounted primarily through the stories of Muslims".
September 8, 2026. By Daniel Greenfield.
Zohran Mamdani’s decision to pass the pen used to sign a 9/11 commemorative order to Ramzi Kassem, the lawyer for the 20th 9/11 hijacker, whom he had appointed as the city’s chief counsel blew up, outraging 9/11 families and members of the NYPD.
This was not an accident as demonstrated by the decision to feature Kassem in a Gothamist puff piece about how Muslims were the real victims of 9/11 and Americans should feel guilty for resisting Islamic colonial terrorism.
And Ramzi Kassem, who volunteered as a legal translator at a nearby prison, remembers being briefly detained by a guard who suspected he might be a terrorism suspect.
Kassem, 48, spent years fighting civil rights abuses during the federal government’s war on terror and the NYPD’s extensive surveillance of Muslim communities. He now serves as Mamdani’s chief counsel.
“I could not have known then that much of my legal career would be spent standing with clients and communities who bore the brunt of government actions in the days and years that followed: immigrant New Yorkers and Muslims here and abroad subjected to registration, detention, incarceration, surveillance, torture, war or worse,” Kassem, whom City Hall declined to make available for an interview, said in a statement. “Many people who saw 9/11 for what it was — a horrific act of mass murder — were nonetheless treated as enemies.”
Here’s how Kassem actually saw it.
“This is not a battle of good versus evil,” Ramzi Kassem wrote in an op-ed that appeared on September 17, 2001. “The perpetrators were probably not driven to their actions by some intrinsic evil or inherent hatred of the good United States.”
He went on to argue that the Al Qaeda attack a week earlier was the result of the “resentment these terrorists felt towards the United States” as a result of “our country’s policies.”
Two decades later, Kassem, a prominent terror lawyer, claimed in a Washington Post op-ed that, “since 9/11, the government has consistently used the law to enable, operationalize and justify the violence it has deployed against Muslims.”
And that, “the legacy of 9/11 ought to be recounted primarily through the stories of Muslims the world over who have largely paid the price of American power and prosperity.”
Ramzi Kassem had boasted of having “held the record for the longest delayed security clearance in the Guantánamo setting”, but even that does not seem to have dissuaded the Biden administration from bringing him on board.
While some leave behind the extremist views of their college years, Ramzi Kassem instead built a career around them, becoming a noted terrorist lawyer whose Gitmo inmate clients included Ahmed al-Darbi, an Al Qaeda terrorist and the brother-in-law of one of the hijackers who flew a plane into the Pentagon, and who was himself a key figure in the bombing of an oil tanker.
In his columns, as in his activism, Ramzi Kassem repeatedly justified terrorism as a reaction to its victims. “Terrorism is but one of many reactions to oppression and dispossession and not their cause.”
While at Columbia University, Kassem co-founded Turath, an association of Muslim students, and then Qanun at Columbia Law. A fellow student described these hateful groups as having brought “under the guidance of Mr. Kassem… speakers to this campus that support violence against American and Israeli civilians… defended the genocidal program of Hamas.”
Does this sound like a man who “saw 9/11 for what it was — a horrific act of mass murder ” But rather than treating his as an enemy, we put him in power over us.
[https://www.frontpagemag.com/mamdanis-terror-lawyer-ramzi-kassem-lies-about-his-9-11-response/ FPM]
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IDF arrests three Palestinian police officers for assaulting Israeli.
Palestinian Authority police officers accused of setting up unauthorized roadblock in Area C, detaining and assaulting Israeli civilian in 'serious breach.'
Israel National News.
Sep 9, 2026, 1:40 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/432945 INN]
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Arab States Back European Israel Sanctions.
Foreign ministers from eight countries, including Saudi Arabia and UAE, issue statement praising UK and European trade restrictions on West Bank settlements.
Eliana Fleming
Sep 9, 2026.
[https://www.jfeed.com/middleeast/arab-states-endorse-european-sanctions-israeli-settlements JFeed]
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UK wants to punish Israel’s settlements, but Palestinians will pay the price.
At the very least, Britain should acknowledge that economic pressure on Israel will have consequences beyond the people it intends to punish.
Alex Winston.
Sep 9, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-908150 JPost]
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'Not as bad as it sounds': Former attaché downplays UK-led settlement boycott impact.
"Beyond the diplomatic steps Israel took yesterday - which I think were spot on - Israel also has economic leverage. Trade between Israel and the UK is roughly balanced," said Shmuel Ben-Tovim.
Sep 9, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908153 JPost]
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PBS NewsHour.
Netanyahu faces pressure after report alleges he brushed off warnings ahead of Oct. 7.
Sep 9, 2026 6:30 PM EDT
By — Ali Rogin
By — Dan Sagalyn
By — Zeba Warsi
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For his part, Netanyahu wrote on social media that no such call took place between September and October 7, and called the story a malicious fabrication with a clear political timing.
For more on this story and how the actions of Netanyahu before the October 7 attack are impacting the current election campaign in Israel, we turn to David Makovsky, distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
David, welcome back to the "News Hour."
David Makovsky, Senior Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: Delighted to be with you.
Ali Rogin:
Thanks for being with us.
David Makovsky:
Always.
Ali Rogin:
The big headline is in this story is that there was a call between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Mohammed bin Zayed saying, there's going to be an attack, and reportedly Netanyahu dismissed that.
You know well, you are very familiar with the sort of back-channel negotiations and communications that were happening during this time. So what do you make of this report and what do you think was going on around this time?
David Makovsky:
Look, it's clear -- delighted to be with you, Ali.
I think it's -- the whole media focuses on, was there a phone call or there wasn't a phone call between Mohammed bin Zayed, the head of the UAE, and Prime Minister Netanyahu? I tend -- from what I have been hearing, there -- I do not find support for a call itself.
But from -- I do find some indications that there were some back-channel communications between Yahya Sinwar through an intermediary, a Palestinian intermediary, that made its way back to Israel, which was limited at least to the issue of prisoner exchanges.
I actually think there was a broader thing going on. I think that was limited. I don't know if that was a distraction from the broader macro that was going on at that time. But I do think those broader developments in October -- September-October, 2023, are worthy of note.
Ali Rogin:
Right.
And what you're talking about here in terms of those broader dynamics, you're saying that that could have extended beyond any conversations about a possible truce and really had more to do with some of the broader context of what was happening in Israel at the time.
David Makovsky:
Right. Right. Right.
Ali Rogin:
Remind us of that broader context.
David Makovsky:
Right. Right.
There were two critical things, mega-stories that were going on at that time in 2023. One was the judicial overhaul of this government of Israel, which was very controversial, about changing the role of the courts and perhaps diluting Israel's liberal character, which prompted a backlash among Israeli pilots, saying that they were not going to fly in reserve duty.
In return, senior security officials were saying after October 7 on the record -- I happen to hear it before the October 7 -- saying, David, the Arabs think Israel is weak because the pilots won't fly in reserve duty. And they are plotting. They are meeting. Something big is about to happen.
And Aharon Haliva, the head of military intelligence, has gone public and said, I warned the government in writing three times, saying, this is dangerous. They're drawing the wrong conclusions.
Now, he didn't connect the dots, saying, therefore, on October 7, on the Gaza fence, this -- when this would happen, this horrible massacre, the worst since the Holocaust. But they were -- their hair was on fire. That was one mega-event.
The other mega-event was Saudi normalization. There was an interview of MBS, Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, saying, every day, we're getting closer to Saudi normalization. And I think, for Yahya Sinwar -- and I think President Biden has said he believes this, President Trump has said he believed this, one -- may be one of the few things they agree on.
But they said they both believe that Yahya Sinwar did October 7 to derail Saudi normalization with Israel, because if the biggest and most powerful Saudi Arab state made peace with Israel, Hamas would be a footnote.
Ali Rogin:
And all of this is happening as we prepare for an election in Israel on October 27.
David Makovsky:
Right.
Ali Rogin:
Opposition parties are using this report as a call for a -- renewed calls for an independent state commission of inquiry. What would that look like?
David Makovsky:
Right.
Ali Rogin:
And do you -- how does this change the election?
David Makovsky:
By the way, you have had 70 percent of Israelis, not just the opposition parties, saying that, after every fiasco, debacle, whatever word you want to use, in Israeli history, Israel has gone through a cleansing inward, I would say brutal self-reflection, a self-reckoning. What went wrong?
And I always talk to Arab leaders who said, hey, that's part of Israel's strength. They go through that self-reckoning exercise to investigate, what happened here? And the prime minister, though, is convinced that because the rules of the game, that the commission of inquiry is led by the chief of the justice Supreme Court, who is liberal, and therefore he thinks he won't get a fair shake.
And he's resisted these calls. And for the opposition, which, by the way, includes two right-wing parties, by the way, not just centrist or center-left parties, their view is, this is central. The first day of the government after the elections, there has to be an announcement of a commission of inquiry into what actually happened October 7, and hopefully many of these details will become unearthed.
Ali Rogin:
And Netanyahu doesn't want this commission to happen. Do you think that affects ultimately his election chances here, in 20 seconds?
David Makovsky:
All I could say is, two-thirds of Israeli Jews, which are 80 percent of the country, have just said in a poll this week, and a credible poll, that October 7 is going to be a big factor on how they vote.
So I think...
Ali Rogin:
David Makovsky, thank you so much for your insights.
David Makovsky:
Thank you very much.
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/netanyahu-faces-pressure-after-report-alleges-he-brushed-off-warnings-ahead-of-oct-7 PBS]
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UAE Warning Prior To October 7.
Election Interference Allegations: Likud Demands Criminal Investigation Into Haaretz Journalists And Yair Golan.
Sep 10, 2026 00:56
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/election-interference-investigation JFeed]
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Trump aides warn Iran war could last through end of his term.
Senior Trump advisers have privately warned the Iran war could continue until 2029, despite his public assurances that the conflict will end soon, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Israel National News.
Sep 10, 2026, 3:25 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/432979 INN]
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Israeli embassy in Slovenia opens as relations thaw between the countries.
Protests were scheduled against the opening of the embassy on Wednesday evening by student movements, a left-wing political opposition party, and pro-Palestinian groups.
By Reuters. Sep 9, 2026.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-908075 JPost]
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‘Proud British Jew’ Miliband pushes back on Chief Rabbi’s sanctions warning.
UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband rejects Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’ warning that sanctions on Judea and Samaria could fuel antisemitism in Britain.
Israel National News. Sep 9, 2026, 8:36 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/432968 INN]
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‘The fight of my life’: Police Spokesman recalls battle for truth after 10/7.
Israel Police spokesman Dean Elsdunne speaks to Arutz Sheva about October 7, the battle for Israel’s truth abroad, and why Israelis must keep speaking out.
Yoni Kempinski. Sep 9, 2026, 5:10 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/432960 INN]
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Rubio: Iran will continue to pay price for attacks on US ships.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran will face further consequences for attacks on US ships as Washington maintains economic pressure on Tehran.
Elad Benari. Sep 10, 2026, 12:11 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/432974 INN]
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Toronto Mayor Chow skips Jewish forum as rivals pledge stronger action on antisemitism.
Toronto mayoral candidates Brad Bradford and Chris Alexander criticize current Mayor Olivia Chow for skipping a Jewish forum and pledge tougher action on antisemitism.
Elad Benari. Sep 10, 2026, 2:10 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/432978 INN]
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Aegean Diplomatic Standoff.
Greece Declares Operational Readiness To Protect Maritime Claims Against Turkey.
Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis declared that Athens is fully prepared to respond operationally to protect its maritime sovereignty while continuing to deepen defense and technological cooperation with Israel.
Sep 10, 2026, 1:23 AM
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/greece-turkey-maritime-dispute JFeed]
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Likud accuses Mohammed Dahlan of being behind disputed ‘Haaretz’ report.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party accused Palestinian political figure Mohammed Dahlan of being behind a disputed Haaretz report alleging that the United Arab Emirates warned the premier before the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorist invasion.
“The real affair uncovered over the past two days is blatant foreign interference in Israel’s elections,” Likud said, claiming that Dahlan wants to bring down Netanyahu’s government to advance his ambitions in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu’s party noted that Dahlan was working to establish a joint list with the Hamas terrorist organization for the Palestinian Legislative Council elections currently scheduled for Nov. 28.
Likud also accused journalist Shlomi Eldar of receiving payment from a leftwing nonprofit linked to The Democrats Party (HaDemokratim) and called for a criminal investigation into Eldar, Haaretz, Democrats leader Yair Golan and others over suspected election interference involving foreign actors. Sep 10, 2026. [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-89bf-d8ee-a1f6-ctfb92950000 JNS]
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IDF highlights Hezbollah use of Lebanese schools for military activity.
The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday highlighted four previous cases in which it said Hezbollah used schools in Southern Lebanon for military purposes.
In a post marking the International Day to Protect Education from Attack, the Israeli military cited the discovery of more than 130 weapons in a school in the Bint Jbeil area and hundreds more in a school in Al-Khiam, as well as Hezbollah equipment found at another school and a rocket launcher that it said was concealed inside a school compound near Tir Zibneh. Sep 10, 2026 [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-89c2-d66d-adac-dbc304b90000 JNS]
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“We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” Trump tells Republican convention.
Sep 10, 2026 [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-89f0-d585-adf3-edfc05640000 JNS]
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More than 5,000 sign letter rejecting ‘genocide’ accusation against Israel. Sep 10, 2026 1:05 AM.
More than 5,000 leaders and public figures have signed an open letter rejecting the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, calling the charge a form of anti-Jewish scapegoating that is fueling antisemitism worldwide.
“It’s an hour of crisis,” Deborah Lipstadt, former U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, told JNS on Wednesday. “I don’t usually sign joint letters, but I said, ‘Why not? Let’s give it a try.’ I don’t know what else we can do, and I think it’s a time when you have to try every avenue.”
The letter, released by the nonprofit Creative Community for Peace, says the genocide accusation “has become a dangerous vehicle for scapegoating Jews and fueling antisemitism around the world.” https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-89ae-d099-aff6-bfbe47900000 JNS]
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IDF, Shin Bet strike three Hamas weapons depots in Gaza.
The Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) struck three Hamas weapons storage facilities across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to a joint statement released on Thursday.
“Hamas stored weapons, explosive devices, anti-tank missiles and additional military equipment inside the facilities,” the statement said.
Steps were taken to mitigate harm to noncombatants, including advance warnings, precise munitions and aerial surveillance, it added. [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-8a14-db3c-a7a2-ce14284b0000 JNS]
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IDF rejects Guterres’s criticism of Lebanon operations.
The military was responding to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who had condemned reports of civilian deaths in IDF operations in Southern Lebanon.
The IDF said it operates “in accordance with Israeli law and international law, against military targets solely.” It added that it takes “all feasible precautions” to mitigate harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure.
It vowed to keep acting against imminent threats to the Jewish state and its civilians and pledged to prevent Hezbollah terrorists from restoring their capabilities. [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-8a01-d585-adf3-6f4d6040000 JNS]
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IDF eliminates Hamas Nukhba terrorist who killed Nahal commander. IDF eliminates Hamas Nukhba terrorist Ismail Kandil, who took part in killing Col. Yonatan Steinberg and recently advanced attacks on Israelis. Israel National News. Sep 10, 2026, 5:08 PM. [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433017 INN]
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IAEA confirms:
Signs of activity at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site. Israel National News. Sep 10, 2026, 5:31 PM. [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433019 INN]
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Israel forces seal Palestinian tunnel discovered north of Jerusalem.
Sep 10, 2026. [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-8ace-db91-a3eb-9fdf08010000 JNS]
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Israel Border Police arrests infiltrators ahead of Jewish holidays. Sep 10, 2026. [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-8ab1-df9c-afee-eab337ec0000 JNS]
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Israel: Hamas praise for UK sanctions a ‘glaring warning’. Sep 10, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-8b18-dd44-a3b2-cf1d66400000 JNS]
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Israel, Cyprus advance emergency-response cooperation.
Sep 10, 2026.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-8b19-d816-a3b4-cffd2e6b0000 JNS]
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Construction observed at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, UN-affiliated nuclear watchdog says.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Thursday that it observed construction activity at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain but that it doesn’t “have any concrete information as to activities that may be taking place there,” Bloomberg reported [https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-8bdd-d11e-afa9-fbfdea360000 JNS]
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Iranian arms and advice helped Yemen's Houthis seize key Red Sea city, sources say.
By Parisa Hafezi, Mohammed Ghobari and Timour Azhari.
September 10, 2026.
[https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-arms-advice-helped-yemens-houthis-seize-key-red-sea-city-sources-say-2026-09-10/ Reuters]
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Expanded economic campaign
US sanctions Hezbollah, Iran proxy networks.
Israel National News.
Sep 11, 2026, 1:08 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433041 INN]
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Selichot at Western Wall:
Over 50,000 worshippers gather ahead of Rosh Hashanah.
Israel National News.
Sep 11, 2026, 2:24 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433040 INN]
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