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| by David C. Mulford via Hoover Institution Press Digital exclusive: Ambassador David Mulford offers a definitive personal account of the 2005–2008 US-India Civil Nuclear Agreement negotiations, a historic accomplishment and the cornerstone of modern US-India relations. ++++ Report US officials believe Israel retaliates against Iran soon, possibly today. Wall Street Journal reports US, Western officials believe Israel's retaliation for Iran's massive missile and drone attack is imminent, even as US attempts to prevent an Israeli retaliation. American officials believe Israel is preparing to respond to Iran's massive assault in the near future, possibly even today, the Wall Street Journal reported. Both the US and the G7 have called on Israel to show restraint after Iran launched over 300 explosive drones and missiles at Israel, including cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Nearly all of the projectiles were intercepted, many by the US, UK, France, and Arab nations, in addition to interceptions by the Israeli Air Force and Israel's David's Sling and Arrow missile defense systems. According to the IDF, the interception rate was 99%. The US has called on Israel to treat the successful interceptions as a victory rather than retaliate. Several scenarios for a possible retaliation were presented, including an indirect retaliation that targets Iran's proxies in the Middle East rather than Iran itself, strikes on Iranian military targets, and strikes on sites related to Iran's nuclear weapons program. Washington Institute for Near East Policy fellow Ehud Yaari told the Journal that Israel will "have to do something about Iran at some point," but may decide not to retaliate now. Former Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren noted that while the US and other Western countries can be counted on to support purely defensive actions such as the shooting down of missiles, such support quickly evaporates when Israel begins to take offensive action against its attackers. "It’s when we move from defense to counter-offense, we hemorrhage American support," Oren said. In the meantime, Israeli officials told CNN that Israel was supposed to start an operation against the final Hamas battalions in Rafah this week, but postponed its start at the last minute following the Iranian attack. ++++ The Liar in ChiefBiden Tells Massive Lie in Latest Statement on Iran Attack By Katie Pavlich In response to Iran's unprecedented attack against Israel over the weekend, President Joe Biden released the following statement: Earlier today, Iran—and its proxies operating out of Yemen, Syria and Iraq—launched an unprecedented air attack against military facilities in Israel. I condemn these attacks in the strongest possible terms. At my direction, to support the defense of Israel, the U.S. military moved aircraft and ballistic missile defense destroyers to the region over the course of the past week. Thanks to these deployments and the extraordinary skill of our servicemembers, we helped Israel take down nearly all of the incoming drones and missiles. I’ve just spoken with Prime Minister Netanyahu to reaffirm America’s ironclad commitment to the security of Israel. I told him that Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks – sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel. Tomorrow, I will convene my fellow G7 leaders to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran’s brazen attack. My team will engage with their counterparts across the region. And we will stay in close touch with Israel’s leaders. And while we have not seen attacks on our forces or facilities today, we will remain vigilant to all threats and will not hesitate to take all necessary action to protect our people. ++++ ETU Bret Stephens! Has the New York anti-Israel virus gotten into Bret's porridge? Bret Stephens, Swinging Behind Schumer, Blames Netanyahu
Timesman is rooting for Israel’s national unity government to collapse. by IRA STOLL Since the attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7, 2023, Bret Stephens of the Times has been one of the most eloquent columnists articulating the pro-Israel case. All the more stunning to see a column from Mr. Stephens headlined “Netanyahu Must Go.” It asserts that “wishing Netanyahu gone is the most mainstream position possible — and one sincere friends of Israel should never be afraid to express.” Grotesquely, the column likens Prime Minister Netanyahu to the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, who, shrinking from war, negotiated the Munich agreement that ceded Czechoslovakia to Hitler. I went over the Stephens column to try to understand his case for ousting Mr. Netanyahu. It was not convincing. Three paragraphs of Mr. Stephens’s case are about an appearance by an Israeli minister, Nir Barkat, on MSNBC, where Mr. Stephens used to be a paid on-air contributor. Stephens writes that Barkat “got destroyed” by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. I watched the program and don’t think anyone was destroyed. If anything Mr. Scarborough came off as a pompous cable news blowhard of the sort that Mr. Stephens denounces when their shows are on Fox News. Even if Mr. Barkat did get “destroyed,” so what? The prime minister of Israel needs to step down because of one suboptimal, non-primetime cable-television appearance by some other Israeli politician? Stephens then moves to complaining that, “after six months,” the war isn’t going well for Israel. Plenty of wars take longer than six months to completely win. Israel’s war so far has achieved considerable gains. The rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel have almost entirely ceased, which Mr. Stephens fails to mention. Israeli casualties and Palestinian civilian casualties have been remarkably low relative to what Israel says are the 13,000 terrorists that have been killed. Mr. Stephens complains that “only a handful of hostages have been rescued,” but he ignores that 109 hostages were released by Hamas because of Israeli military pressure. That is more than “a handful.” As a sign that the war is not going well, Mr. Stephens notes that “Israeli soldiers have been forced to recapture the same places — like Gaza City’s Al Shifa hospital — that were supposed to have been cleared of terrorists months ago.” Yet the second Israeli operation at Shifa resulted in killing 200 terrorists and capturing another 500. That is a big enough success that at least some observers figure Israel intentionally allowed the terrorists to regather there as a trap. Mr. Stephens goes on to say that Mr. Netanyahu bears the “ultimate” blame for the deaths of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers and “for everything that led to Oct. 7.” He sounds like the Harvard student groups who on October 7 immediately declared that they held Israel’s government “entirely responsible,” and that it “is the only one to blame.” What about Hamas? What about Iran? Tehran is sending Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad $100 million a year, according to the New York Times. Iran has those funds available in part because of the Iran nuclear deal and other sanctions relief that Presidents Obama and Biden provided with the Times’ encouragement and over Mr. Netanyahu’s emphatic objections. Mr. Stephens, following Mr. Scarborough, now faults Mr. Netanyahu for allowing Hamas to remain in power in Gaza for so long. Yet had the Israeli military invaded Gaza preemptively before October 7, targeting the various hospitals, mosques, and UN schools where Hamas was headquartered, the condemnation would have been intense, and the civilian toll would have been immense. Such an invasion did not take place under either of the recent non-Netanyahu prime ministers, Naftali Bennett or Yair Lapid. If there was a flurry of Times columns by Mr. Stephens or anyone else advising such an approach, I must have somehow missed it. As for the World Central Kitchen tragedy, an Israeli military spokesman said, “There were in fact a number of armed gunmen who boarded and left some of the vehicles.” Once Hamas is fully defeated, the danger of innocents getting killed accidentally will diminish. Until then, the terrorist group’s interference with food distribution is an unavoidable part of the issue in Gaza. Mr. Stephens cites Israeli opinion polls that he says show that “Seventy-one percent of Israelis want Netanyahu booted from office… and 66 percent want elections called early.” That description of the data misleads Times readers. There are two polls in the article he linked. Both have small sample sizes and large margins of error. A Kan poll found 42 percent wanting Netanyahu to resign immediately, 29 percent wanting him gone after the war, and 21 percent saying he needn’t resign. That’s a plurality wanting Mr. Netanyahu to stay in office until the war is over. The same poll found 44 percent wanting elections “within a few months,” with a total of 48 percent favoring either October 2026 or “sometime over the coming year.” The Channel 12 poll found 50 percent in favor of early elections, but didn’t specify when they would be held. Israelis last voted in November 2022. It was the fifth national election in less than four years. Mr. Netanyahu emerged as prime minister in four out of five of those elections. Most Israelis reasonably think the key task at the moment is defeating Hamas and finding the hostages, not having another election. Mr. Stephens dismisses as “self-serving” the argument that Mr. Netanyahu should stay until the war concludes, but just as self-serving is the argument by Mr. Netanyahu’s political rivals and longtime critics that an election should be held before the war is won. Even for those Israelis and friends of Israel who think Mr. Netanyahu isn’t the right leader for Israel at the moment, the precedent of allowing Senator Schumer, President Biden, and a Times columnist to oust an elected government from Jerusalem is itself devastating to the core Zionist idea: self-determination by the Jewish people in its own land. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ They nail it +++
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PRESIDENT HERZOG ADDRESSES IRAN'S DIRECT ATTACK ON ISRAEL
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IDF CHIEF: "IRAN WILL FACE CONSEQUENCES FOR ITS ACTIONS"
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YOUNG IRANIAN WOMAN'S DENOUNCEMENT OF AYATOLLAH REGIME GOES VIRAL
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CONSUL GENERAL SULTAN-DADON DISCUSSES SECURITY SITUATION FOLLOWING IRAN'S ATTACK
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Iran Attacks Israel: CNN’s Amanpour Minimizes Barrage & Fake News Goes Viral
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Iran launched an unprecedented direct attack on Israel overnight on Saturday, launching at least 300 drones and missiles towards the Jewish state. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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