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President Donald J. Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, participates in a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi of the Republic Iraq Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)-wikipedia

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Iraq, Twenty Years Later

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Simona Foltyn Boston Review, Mar. 15, 2023 “… the government’s role in the August clashes deserves closer examination, not least because prime minister Kadhimi was Washington’s man in Baghdad.” Abbas stood in front of the state television station when the first bullet whizzed by. The thirty-something had been deployed there alongside hundreds of other soldiers […]

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Newly liberated Iraqi civilians and crowds of children gather in the streets and eagerly greet US Military personnel in the town of Qalat Sukkar, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM - PICRYL

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Hundreds of Thousands of Iraqis Were Killed in the War. One Was My Brother

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Huaisal Saeed Al Mutar The Free Press,  Mar. 21, 2023 “For all that, for all the chaos America, for all the dislocation, for the grief that will never leave me, I don’t harbor any ill will toward America.”   My eldest brother, Samir al Mutar, was born in August 1980. He was a talented computer engineer […]

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Daily Briefing : WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW”

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                                        WEEKLY QUOTES If the High Court of Justice strikes down the bill to change the makeup of the Judicial Selection Committee, Justice Minister Yariv Levin (Likud) does not intend to respect the ruling. Such a ruling would be “crossing […]

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Daily Briefing: IS IRAN’S AXIS OF RESISTANCE GEARING UP FOR RAMADAN?

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INCREASING TIES WATCH:  The Iranian Octopus: Terror and the Run-Up to Ramadan:  JNS, Mar. 20, 2023 —  During the past week, an Israeli was wounded by a bomb placed on a major Israeli highway by a terrorist from Lebanon, and a Hamas gunman shot several people in Central Tel Aviv. Although they were separate attacks, […]

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Syria location map.svg - Wikimedia Commons Hamas - Wikipedia Pro-Hamas demonstrators at a rally in Damascus Syria in december 2008 during the Israel-Gaza conflict. -Wikipedia

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Hosting Palestinian Resistance Meeting:  Damascus’s Long Jump to Restore Balance with Tel Aviv

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Alwaght, Mar. 5, 2023 “The presence of the members of the Hamas political office in Damascus indicates the return of relations with Syria to what it was before.”   Amid broadening insecurity and clashes between the Israelis and the Palestinian groups in various parts of the occupied West Bank and only a week after Naqab […]

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Hassan Nasrallah during a discussion with officials from supreme leader of Iran Ali Khamenei’s office. - Wikipedia

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Developing Hezbollah-Hamas Axis Gives Israel Serious Cause for Concern

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Yoav Limor Israel Hayom, Mar. 16, 2023 “This policy of engaging in transnational activity has been a characteristic trait of Hamas policy in recent years.”   There is broad consensus within Israel’s intelligence community that the upcoming festival of Ramadan, due to commence in exactly one week’s time, will be even more volatile than usual […]

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Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken (Wikipedia)

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Blinken Builds a Palestinian Hezbollah in the West Bank

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Tony Badran Tablet, Mar. 8, 2023 “Providing the Palestinians with guns and bullets, and the training to use them effectively, appears to be the point of the Biden administration’s plan.”   While the Biden administration has been busy encouraging and funding the Israeli protest movement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms, it has also launched a far more potentially […]

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The Axis of Resistance Led by Iran Threatens Israel during Ramadan

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Yoni Ben Menachem Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Mar. 16, 2023 “The desire to commit suicide among the [Muslim] residents of the West Bank is unprecedented, and the state of resistance in the West Bank is excellent. So is the state of national unity in the face of the occupation.”   Sometime on March 11 […]

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Daily Briefing: COMPREHENDING THE POLITICS BEHIND NETANYAHU’S JUDICIAL REFORM PACKAGE

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Israel’s Judicial Reckoning:  Evelyn Gordon, Mosaic Magazine, Mar. 6, 2023 Israel Needs Judicial Reform—But How?:  Editorial Board, WSJ, Mar. 12, 2023 The Urgent Need for Israeli Electoral Reform:  Melanie Phillips, Substack, Mar. 10, 2023 Israel’s Soul Is Poisoned by False Doomsday Discourse – Opinion:  David M. Weinberg, Jerusalem Post, Mar. 8, 2023 _______________________________________________________________ LISTEN:  Liberalism […]

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Israel Needs Judicial Reform—But How?

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  Editorial Board WSJ, Mar. 12, 2023   “Shrewd thinkers on Israel’s right understand that compromise is needed to lower the stakes, regain the public’s confidence and pass something durable. The opposition, however, sees Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing on a ledge and has no desire to let him off lightly.”   Opposition to Israeli judicial reform […]

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Israeli legislative election, 2013-WIKIPEDIA

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Israel’s Soul Is Poisoned by False Doomsday Discourse – Opinion

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David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Mar. 8, 2023 “… opposition to public policy reforms must be debated on their merits, without semi-automatic screeching about intolerance, repression, dictatorship, thought police, and the crushing of democratic norms.”   Have you heard of a country that is “drowning in a sea of sensed betrayal?” That is “awash in […]

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Balanced scales of justice, with Holy See emblem overlaid.-wikiepdia Knesset building (2007)Wikipedia

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Israel’s Judicial Reckoning

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  Evelyn Gordon Mosaic Magazine, Mar. 6, 2023   “Right now, both sides believe they can win. The government has the votes to pass its own plan as is; the opposition believes that the protests and pressure will force the government to fold.”   Anyone reading the press out of Israel these days would probably […]

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