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Daily Briefing: SQUEEZING IRAN?

*** Trump Envoy Says Iran Must Give Up Nuclear Enrichment Capability: David E. Sanger, NY Times, May 18, 2025 Iran’s Air Defenses Around Nuclear Site More ‘Brittle’ Than Expected: Exclusive Analysis:  Aaron Mehta, Breaking Defense, May 15, 2025 Master Negotiator Who ‘Drowns the Devil in Words’: Iran’s Man in Nuclear Talks with US:  Lion Ben Ari, Ynet News, […]

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Steve Witkoff said gaining the release of Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage held by Hamas in Gaza, was a ‘top priority for us’. (AP pic) SOURCE FMT

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Trump Envoy Says Iran Must Give Up Nuclear Enrichment Capability

David E. Sanger NY Times, May 18, 2025 “It is unclear whether Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Trump can sell the president’s supporters on an agreement that stops short of dismantlement as a permanent solution to a problem Mr. Trump has insisted he would solve, once and for all.” President Trump’s chief Iran negotiator said on […]

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Samaneh Moushaki Havaei 15 Khordad- Source: Wikipedia

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Iran’s Air Defenses Around Nuclear Site More ‘Brittle’ Than Expected: Exclusive Analysis

Aaron Mehta Breaking Defense, May 15, 2025 “It is surprising that the defenses for one of the most sophisticated sites is this siloed and fragmented,” Lair said. “I expected a little more sophistication for such an area of importance.” At a time when President Donald Trump is threatening military action to curb Iran’s nuclear program, a new […]

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Seyed Abbas Araghchi & Rafael Mariano Grossi (01911419) IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi met with HE Mr. Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran during his official visit to the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 1 September 2020 Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA SOURCE: Flickr

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Master Negotiator Who ‘Drowns the Devil in Words’: Iran’s Man in Nuclear Talks with US

Lion Ben Ari Ynet News, May 17, 2025 “Araghchi’s strategy, Ilam explained, is to convince the U.S. of Iran’s goodwill in order to lift sanctions and neutralize the threat of military attack.” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is one of the key figures in the negotiations over a nuclear agreement between Iran and the United […]

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Trump moves to strangle Iran economy as nuclear deal withers | FMT

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Open Letter to President Trump Urging Him to Prevent an Iranian Nuclear Arsenal

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Alan Dershowitz and Andrew Stein Gatestone Institute, May 20, 2025 “Ignorance of the hypothetical future is often the reason for failure to act in the present. That is the dilemma of failing to take preventive military action.” Dear Mr. President, You are about to make a decision for which you will be remembered by history. […]

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Daily Briefing: IS THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY CAPABLE OF REFORM?

SHABBAT READING: Whom May a Kohen Gadol Marry?:  Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin, The Torah.com, May 4, 2015 — The beginning of Parashat Emor (Lev 21:1-15) outlines restrictions on kohanim (priests). The questions of whom they may marry and what kind of contact they may have with the dead are still relevant to the rules observed today. These rules contain two […]

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70th Annual General Assembly Debate Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventieth session. 30 September 2015 United Nations, New York Photo # 646783 UN Photo/Cia Pak SOURCE: Flickr

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Unmasking the Palestinian Authority

  Moshe Phillips JNS, Apr. 22, 2025 “More and more Israelis are acknowledging a painful reality: Whether they support Fatah or Hamas, Palestinians overwhelmingly agree that the Jewish state must be eliminated.” April 22, 2025, may be remembered as a turning point in the history of Israeli public diplomacy—and rightly so. On that day, the […]

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No Time to Lose: A Blueprint for Reforming the Palestinian Authority:

  Ibrahim Eid Dalalsha, Shira Efron, Jess Manville, and Gabriel Epstein Israel Policy Forum, Mar. 2025 “… two parallel reform efforts must unfold in tandem: enhancing day-to-day governance and service delivery under the PA, and deeper political reforms within the PLO, Fatah alongside developing an election horizon.” The October 7 atrocities and the subsequent Gaza […]

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The Palestinian Myth

  Daniel Greenfield Front Page, May 14, 2025 “It’s hard to imagine a name more closely associated with foreign invaders than ‘Palestinians’.” Even though the Jewish history in the land of Israel is one of the most popular stories of mankind and was incorporated into the religious beliefs of over half the human race, it’s […]

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Foreign Secretary David Lammy visits Occupied Palestinian Territories 14/07/2024. Ramallah, Occupied Palestinian Territories. Foreign Secretary David Lammy meets Secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein al-Sheikh. Picture by Ben Dance / FCDO SOURCE: Flickr

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The Appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh as PLO Deputy Chairman and the Reforms in the Palestinian Authority—A Unifying Move or a Source of Division?

  Yohanan Tzoreff INSS Insight No. 1982, May 15, 2025 “In Abbas’s view, the war has exposed Hamas as out of touch with today’s strategic realities and incapable of managing the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.” The PLO Central Council approved the appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh as deputy chairman of the PLO during a session held on April […]

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Daily Briefing: TRUMP SHIFTS FOREIGN POLICY FOCUS IN RIYADH

BIG BANG Full Replay: President Trump Speaks to US-Saudi Investment Forum in Riyadh:  Real Clear Politics, May 13, 2025 — President Donald Trump plans to deliver remarks at a U.S.-Saudi “investment forum” in Riyadh, where Middle Eastern businesses are pledging $600 billion to invest in a series of deals in the U.S. *** Forget Democracy […]

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Trump’s Syrian Gamble America is Looking for an Exit Plan

  Lily Lynch Unherd, May 15, 2025 “Trump’s new Syria policy seems to put him at odds with top members of his own team.” In a remarkable speech before a friendly audience in Riyadh on Tuesday, President Trump assailed the long history of “Western intervention” in the Middle East. He lambasted the neocons, hawks and […]

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