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Thursday, February 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

ALMOST THERE? Iran’s Uranium Processing Has Almost Reached Weapons-Grade Nuclear Purity: Inspectors: Bradford Betz, Fox News, Feb. 19, 2023 — International atomic inspectors last week discovered that Iran has accumulated uranium enriched to levels just shy of what is needed for a nuclear weapon, according to a new report.   Israel: 84% Enrichment Means It’s Now or Never […]

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Thursday, February 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Laurence Norman WSJ, Feb. 19, 2023 “The news comes after the IAEA reported in early February that Iran had conducted nuclear work that wasn’t reported to it at the country’s heavily fortified Fordow underground enrichment facility.”   United Nations atomic agency inspectors have detected uranium that has been enriched to near weapons-grade in Iran in recent […]

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Thursday, February 23rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Michael Lipin VOA News, Feb. 16, 2023 “We are looking at a holistic strategy, which encompasses all dimensions of Iranian activities, including in the nuclear field, in the regional field, the cooperation between Iran and Russia, and the internal situation in Iran, which has to be factored into any strategic thinking about this situation.” Israel’s […]

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Thursday, February 23rd 2023

’ Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, Feb. 20, 2023 “Military strategists guessing how a potential Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear program would look often suggest that the F-35 might go in first to remove the anti-aircraft missile system threat, but then that the F-15 aircraft (old or new) would do most of the actual striking […]

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Thursday, February 23rd 2023

i24NEWS  Calev Ben-David I24 News, Feb. 21, 2023 “It’s not just the problem of Israel, it’s the problem of the world. It’s the right time to take the relevant steps immediately.”   In an exclusive interview with i24NEWS, Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen predicted that the Western world would impose “snapback” sanctions on Iran before the […]

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Wednesday, February 22nd 2023 / Tuesday, October 31st 2023

     WEEKLY QUOTES “I heard the remarks by Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy in Lebanon. I heard Nasrallah’s remarks when he spoke about the demonstrations against the government and said with satisfaction that a civil war in Israel is approaching. Therefore, I say to Nasrallah: Don’t count on a civil war. It will not happen. It […]

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Tuesday, February 21st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Carmit Balensi and Gallia Lindenstrauss INSS Insight No. 1689, Feb. 8, 2023 “A more likely explanation is that this is a political ploy by Erdogan ahead of upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, which were moved up and are now scheduled for May 14.”   Since May 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to launch […]

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Tuesday, February 21st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

ISRAEL EXTENDS ITS HAND Foreign Minister Cohen Lands in Turkey to Show Solidarity, Meet With Erdogan:  Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, Feb. 14, 2023 — Foreign Minister Eli Cohen landed in Turkey on Tuesday morning for a one-day solidarity visit in the wake of the deadly earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people.   […]

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Tuesday, February 21st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Abdullah Bozkurt Nordic Monitor, Feb. 11, 2023 “Erdoğan, his family and his cronies in political and business establishments pocketed huge sums at the expense of the safety of citizens.”   The large-scale destruction of property and huge number of casualties in Turkey’s massive earthquakes earlier this week have exposed decades of mismanagement, nepotism and waste […]

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Tuesday, February 21st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Bobby Ghosh Washington Post, Jan. 9, 2023 “Should Erdogan be defeated, says Sinan Ulgen, director of the Istanbul think tank EDAM, “his successor will transform Turkey into a different foreign policy actor, more comfortable with its position as a Western nation.”    Among the many general elections of international consequence to watch this year, Nigeria’s, scheduled […]

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Tuesday, February 21st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Burak Bekdil Gatestone Institute, Feb. 3, 2023 “Most Turks still believe what they were taught at primary school: A Turk’s only friend is another Turk.”   NATO is essentially a security alliance. Its preamble, however, states that the organization is founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. The grossly autocratic […]

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Monday, February 20th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  WATCH:  World Jewry’s Role in Ukraine: Natan Sharansky, Ksenia Svetlova, David Harris, Armin Rosen: Jewish Confederation of Ukraine, YouTube, Feb. 16, 2023   The Ukraine War Starts to Undermine Israeli Security:  Jonathan Tobin, JNS, Jan. 25, 2023 — For the last 11 months, Israel has sought to signal its opposition to Russia’s illegal invasion of […]