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Biden Seeks to Reenter Iran Deal as Palestinians Claim Willing to Jump-start Talks with Israel
NOVEMBER 9, 2020

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A former senior aide to US President-elect Joe Biden claimed that reentering the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran was “high on [the] agenda” and that the incoming American leader would begin taking steps towards that end shortly.
Will Trump impose new sanctions on Tehran?

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The Palestinian Authority has reportedly relayed messages to US President-elect Joe Biden indicating that Ramallah is willing to resume American-brokered peace talks with Israel.
Read about Abbas' plans »


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Just days after the US presidential elections, rumors are swirling in Israel over the possibility of a fourth national vote since March 2019.
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The first airplane carrying Israeli tourists to the United Arab Emirates landed in Dubai, in the latest evidence that the September 15 normalization deal between the two countries is bearing fruit.
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War & Peace: US Reportedly Approves Sale of F-22 Raptors to Israel, F-35s to UAE

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The United States has reportedly approved the sale of F-22 Raptor fighter jets and precision-guided bombs to Israel.

 

Last week, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrived in the Jewish state for a short visit and held meetings with his Israeli counterpart Benny Gantz, as well as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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The Dominican Republic announced that it is considering relocating its Israeli Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

 

Santo Domingo said it was accounting for a variety of factors, including the fact that until 1980 the Dominican mission to Israel was based in Jerusalem.

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The second stage of the country’s coronavirus exit strategy went into effect. National parks and beaches have reopened, while beauty parlors, hair salons, and psychiatric professionals have been able to resume their work.

Israel kicks off COVID-19 vaccine human trials ➞
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For the first time ever, the United States issued a passport to a Jerusalem-born American with Israel listed as the place of birth instead of the city.  

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Antisemitism Watch: Jewish schools and synagogues in Nice remained closed as a precautionary measure following an Islamist terrorist attack at a Catholic church in the southern French city.

 

A knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu akhbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in last Thursday’s incident at the Notre Dame church, the largest in Nice.

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Iran Doubles Down on ‘Liberating’ Golan Heights From Israel; Czech Parliament Votes to Outlaw Hezbollah

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Iran’s judiciary chief, Ebrahim Raisi, told Syria’s ambassador to Iran that it supports the “resistance” to retake the Golan Heights from Israel.

 

“Resistance” in this context refers to the Islamic Republic’s use of its Lebanese Shiite proxy Hezbollah. 

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Israel and Lebanon held a second round of US-mediated talks over their disputed sea border that has held up hydrocarbon exploration in the potentially gas-rich area.

 

The talks, expected to last for two days, were held at the headquarters of UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL in the Lebanese border town of Naqoura.

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The Czech parliament moved to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

 

Passed by an overwhelming majority, the resolution also pushes the European Union to end its artificial division of the Lebanese-based group into a military and political wing.

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The coronavirus cabinet was set to meet Thursday to continue charting the country’s exit from its second national lockdown, with ministers expected to debate reopening places of worship and stores.

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told Congress that Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s antisemitic tweets — including calling Israel a “cancerous tumor” — do not violate company rules.

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On a lighter note, the warming ties between Israel and UAE and Bahrain has led to a rise in the number of businesspeople in the Gulf learning Hebrew online.

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UN: Iran Building New Nuclear Facility; US: More Arab Countries to Normalize Ties With Israel After Election

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Inspectors from the United Nations’ atomic watchdog have confirmed that Iran has started building a new underground nuclear facility after a mysterious explosion this summer at its Natanz uranium enrichment installation.

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Several more Arab and Muslim countries are set to normalize ties with Israel following the US election next week, President Donald Trump said.

The announcement comes on the heels of reports earlier this week that cited Mossad Director Yossi Cohen as saying that a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia was imminent.

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Israel’s Health Ministry has named Prof. Nachman Ash as the country’s replacement for current coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu.

Ash, 56, served in the IDF for 25 years, including in the capacity of surgeon general.

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Israel has reached out to Twitter with a request to shut down dozens of fake profiles that are stirring up anti-Israeli sentiments, the Strategic Affairs Ministry said.

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Erdogan Abuses Memory of Holocaust as Leading Lebanese Figure Attacked for Talking Peace With Israel

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Israel’s foreign minister has met his Russian counterpart and thanked him for working with the Jewish state “on preventing an Iranian entrenchment in Syria.”

Gabi Ashkenazi told Sergey Lavrov that “Israel appreciates the ties and the coordination with the Russian government on preventing an Iranian entrenchment in Syria.”

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In a remarkable turn of events, the Palestinian foreign minister has suddenly announced his government's desire to enter into negotiations with Israel via an international peace conference.

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Claudine Aoun, the daughter of Lebanese President Michel Aoun and a well-known public figure in her own right, has sparked fierce condemnation in her country this week for floating the prospect of making peace with Israel.

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Antisemitism Watch: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has invoked the Holocaust to condemn a French crackdown on radical Islam.

Responding to France’s latest measures to fight the scourge of Islamic fundamentalism, Erdogan referenced “the crimes against humanity committed against Jews 80 years ago... are still in the memory.”

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The United States has held its first ever government-sponsored online conference on Internet antisemitism.

 

Titled Ancient Hatred, Modern Medium: Conference on Internet Antisemitism, the confab was opened by Mike Pompeo and saw Israeli and American officials join academics, religious leaders, representatives of social media sites, and NGOs to discuss how best to confront the spread of antisemitism in new mediums, such as social media platforms.

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Peace and War Games: More Arab Countries to Normalize Ties as IDF Launches Drill Against Hezbollah

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A normalization announcement between Israel and Saudi Arabia is reportedly near. Developments along this track are likely to pick up steam following the US presidential elections, depending on which candidate wins on November 3rd.

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An Israeli delegation will travel to Sudan in the coming days after the two countries agreed to take steps to establish ties, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced.

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The Israel Defense Forces launched a large-scale war simulation exercise against the Hezbollah terror group, aimed at improving the military’s offensive capability.

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About 200 people protested outside the residence of France’s ambassador to Israel against President Emmanuel Macron, after he vowed his country would not “give up cartoons” depicting the Prophet Mohammed.

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Germany’s public transportation company put Star of David stickers and the Hebrew-language salutation Shalom on a vehicle serving one of its busiest tram lines. 

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Congress Overwhelmingly Backs Abraham Accords; Sudan Set to Establish Ties With Israel
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An overwhelming majority of both chambers of Congress introduced new resolutions in support of the Abraham Accords to normalize ties between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain.

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Defense Minister Benny Gantz left for Washington on Wednesday evening for talks with his US counterpart Mark Esper.

 

The trip comes one month after their previous meeting, during which the two discussed Israel’s qualitative military edge, Israel-US security cooperation, and international policy regarding Iran, including halting Tehran’s military aspirations in the region.

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With the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Bahrain, it has come to light that Jerusalem had operated a secret embassy in Manama for over a decade.

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A high-level Israeli delegation flew to Sudan to discuss a diplomatic breakthrough between the two countries.

 

Members of the Prime Minister’s Office and Mossad intelligence agency met with their Sudanese counterparts in the latter’s transitional government.

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is working to get the US State Department to declare several major international human rights groups, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam, “antisemitic,” and end American support for them.

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The Israel Defense Forces announced that it had discovered and began dismantling a terror tunnel stretching from Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip to dozens of meters into Israel.

Shortly thereafter, Palestinian terrorists in the coastal enclave fired a rocket at the Jewish state that was intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system.

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Israel Defense Forces tanks reportedly struck Hezbollah military assets located near Quneitra in the Syrian-controlled part of the Golan Heights. A Syrian army base was also allegedly targeted.

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French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to dissolve a pro-Hamas group due to its having been “directly implicated” in last week’s beheading of a history teacher close to Paris.

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For many elderly Israelis, a second coronavirus-related nationwide lockdown has been exceedingly difficult and lonely.

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An Emirati delegation has arrived in Israel and moved to sign a visa waiver treaty, the first time Israel has signed an agreement of this sort with an Arab country.

Earlier in the day, a joint statement issued by the US embassy in Israel from the UAE, Israel and the US announced the establishment of 'The Abraham Fund.'

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Defense minister Benny Gantz has announced that a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed in Israel would commence human testing by the end of October.

The news comes after a report published by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, together with the Health Ministry and the Gertner Institute, showed that only 80% of people who tested positive for coronavirus had developed antibodies.

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Jerusalem and Khartoum are to sign an historic normalization agreement, a day after President Donald Trump announced he will have Sudan removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism.

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Antisemitism Watch: Absurd news coming out of Paris, as a criminal court in the French capital has determined that Swastikas are not necessarily antisemitic.

A man from eastern Europe was arrested and is set to face trial in November, but not for any act of antisemitism. Instead he is charged with “refusal of signaling” and “degradation of classified property.”

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Bahrain became the fourth Arab country to normalize diplomatic ties with Israel. At a ceremony in Manama, officials signed eight bilateral agreements, including a “Joint Communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic, peaceful, and friendly relations.”

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A delegation from the United Arab Emirates is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Tuesday, in a first-of-its-kind visit following the September 15 signing at the White House of a peace agreement between the nations.

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In another sign that Sudan’s transitional Sovereignty Council may be considering establishing ties with Jerusalem, the first conference of the Popular Initiative for Normalization with Israel was held  this weekend in Khartoum.

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The Islamic State terrorist group has condemned Israel’s normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and called for retaliatory attacks in Saudi Arabia.

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Israeli doctors saved a baby’s life using a rare surgical procedure performed while the boy partially remained inside his mother’s body.

The ex utero intrapartum treatment used during a Caesarean-section delivery at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center was planned when prenatal imaging revealed that the fetus’ airways were blocked by a growth.

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Israeli officials traveled to Bahrain to hash out the details of an interim normalization agreement following the signing of a “Declaration of Peace” last month at the White House.
While hopes were high that a final deal would be quickly forged, internal discord within the leadership in Manama is reportedly delaying the process.
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Israelis began emerging from a month-long nationwide coronavirus-related lockdown, the second of its kind this year following a six-week shutdown beginning at the end of March.
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Iranian officials boasted that a United Nations arms embargo on the country had expired, as stipulated in the 2015 nuclear deal.
“As of today, the Islamic Republic may procure any necessary arms and equipment from any source without any legal restrictions, and solely based on its defensive needs,” the Foreign Ministry posted to its Twitter account.
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After heated internal discussions, Sudan’s transitional Sovereignty Council has reportedly decided to normalize relations with Israel.

According to Arab media, the Trump Administration gave Khartoum an ultimatum to recognize the Jewish state within 24 hours in exchange for being removed from the US terrorism blacklist.

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Israel’s parliament convened to debate and vote on whether to approve the September 15 peace agreement with the United Arab Emirates.

It comes amid reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will only reveal secret elements of the accord to a subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee next week, a move that has drawn the ire of some lawmakers.

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Israeli Cabinet Approves Peace Deal with UAE, as Palestinian Authority, Hamas Come Under Pressure

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Israel’s cabinet voted unanimously to adopt the peace agreement forged with the United Arab Emirates; this, ahead of a full parliamentary debate on Thursday that is expected to culminate with the deal’s formal ratification.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that over the weekend he had spoken by phone with the UAE’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Zayed.

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Israel and Hamas are reportedly close to agreeing to a medium-term cease-fire that will include the transfer of $100 million in Qatari funds to the Palestinian terrorist group in the Gaza Strip.

According to media, the coronavirus pandemic has put severe economic pressure on Hamas, which is therefore seeking financial assistance in exchange for a six-month truce.

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The Palestinian Authority is reportedly under extreme pressure from numerous Arab and European countries to resume direct peace talks with Israel.

Those nations calling on Ramallah to return to the negotiating table include, among others, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, France, Britain and Germany.

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Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that his government would be open to peace talks with Israel if areas in the Golan Heights captured by the Jewish state during the 1967 war were first returned to Damascus.

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An eight-year-old Israeli girl named Inbar likes to cool off in her small backyard pool with her favorite swimming buddy – an 11-foot yellow python named Belle. 

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Netanyahu Cautiously Optimistic Lockdown Working; Gantz Holds ‘Town Hall’ with Arab Journalists

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Media Silence as Arch-Terrorists Plot to Destroy Israel
BY DOV LIPMAN  SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
For the first time in 30 years, Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, traveled to Lebanon to meet with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
The meeting was hugely significant. So why wasn't the public informed that two well-armed terrorist organizations met to gang up on the one democracy in the Middle East and the only Jewish state in the world?
A major event with potentially massive repercussions took place on Sunday.
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Ismail Haniya, the leader of Hamas, traveled to Lebanon for the first time in 30 years to meet with Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah. The purpose of their meeting was to discuss their joint goal to destroy Israel. This is not mere conjecture. Al-Manar, Hezbollah’s television station, reported that the two leaders reaffirmed their “axis of resistance” against Israel.

Why don’t you know that two well-armed terrorist organizations met to coordinate their effort to gang up on the one democracy in the Middle East and the only Jewish state in the world?

Because barely any major international news outlets outside of the Jewish and Israeli press even bothered to mention it. News editors who rush to condemn Israel for any missteps when confronting its enemies should be asking themselves why they are not making sure to inform their audiences about this tangible threat to Israel’s very survival. 
Countless media outlets failed to report that Haniya was met by hundreds of Palestinians who came from the many refugee camps in southern Lebanon to see him. He declared, “Not long ago, our rockets only reached close to the Gaza border. Today the resistance in Gaza possesses rockets that can reach Tel Aviv and beyond Tel Aviv.”

Had the media actually reported the story, they would have needed to note that Hamas and Hezbollah have made their mission to destroy Israel and kill Jews very clear in their founding documents.

The Hamas charter includes the following declarations:

Article 6: “The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.” 
Article 7: “The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.”
Article 13: “Palestine is an Islamic land… Since this is the case, the Liberation of Palestine is an individual duty for every Muslim wherever he may be…There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility.” 
Hezbollah’s founding manifesto states “our struggle will end only when this entity [Israel] is obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no ceasefire, and no peace agreements.” 

Hezbollah leader Nasrallah says openly that “There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel” and that he is against any peace agreements with Israel. Just this past May he gave a public address in which he called Israel a “cancerous tumor” and proclaimed that “Palestine from river to sea must be liberated” and “Israel must be destroyed.”

Nasrallah is also known for making outright antisemitic statements like his speech on September 28, 2001 in which he said, “What do the Jews want? They want security and money…If you look all over the world, you will find no one more miserly or greedy than they are.”

Two factors make the Hamas-Hezbollah alliance extremely disturbing:

Hezbollah is Shia Muslim and Hamas is Sunni. The two have been in conflict since they disputed who should succeed Muhammed following his death in 632 CE. Much blood has been shed between the two sides over the centuries and has ravaged the Middle East in recent decades. The fact that Hamas and Hezbollah are willing to put centuries of conflict aside in order to gang up on Israel, demonstrates the degree of their commitment to this cause.
Hezbollah is estimated to possess 150,000 rockets including hundreds of Zetzal-2 missiles that can reach anywhere in Israel. Their arsenal includes precision guided missiles and their army includes 45,000 well trained soldiers.
Hamas has approximately 6,000 rockets including the Fajr and J-80 which travel 100 kilometers, the R-160 with a range of 120 kilometers and the M-302 which can reach 200 kilometers – essentially covering all of Israel. They have 30,000 well trained soldiers and 7,000 reserves in case of emergency. 

A coordinated missile strike against Israel from Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north would be catastrophic for Israel. And now their leaders have connected to form an axis against Israel.

The consequences of this meeting could be severe. And the decision of countless media outlets to allow the public to be entirely uninformed of its occurrence  demonstrates a massive failure to discharge their journalistic duties. 

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