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@ShalomLipner

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Nonresident Senior Fellow @AtlanticCouncil , former @BrookingsInst , 26-yr vet of @IsraeliPM

Jerusalem ISRAEL
Joined September 2013
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Double Header! Bylines at both @ForeignAffairs AND @ForeignPolicy . Quite a day.
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Former Ambassador of #Turkey to the US:
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Namık Tan
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Donald Trump's "perfect" letter to Santa. Via @NewYorker
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"A second official tells @CNN their goal is to set so many fires that it will be hard for the @JoeBiden administration to put them all out." Difficult to imagine how this #ScorchedEarth strategy benefits the national interests of #America - @GOP and @TheDemocrats alike.
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Kylie Atwood
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Stephen Hadley, GW Bush's NSA:"I had retained a whole stack of actions that either the Bush administration could take as we left office, or we could hold and let the Obama administration make those decisions when they came into office."
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"A former GOP congressman told me recently that the party’s only real plan for dealing w/Trump in 2024 involved a darkly divine intervention. “We’re just waiting for him to die,” he said. That was it, that was the plan. He was 100% serious." @MarkLeibovich
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Paul Farhi
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Fab anecdote from @MarkLeibovich ’s forthcoming book, “Thank You for Your Servitude,” as related by @politico :
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NOW: One of protest leaders tells Channel 12 that - after Netanyahu's firing of DM Gallant, unwillingness to convene Cabinet & inherent threat to Israel's nat'l security - halt of judicial reform is no longer the goal AND that protests will continue until Netanyahu is overthrown.
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Rumors that Netanyahu considering suspension of judicial reforms. Dubious whether it will be enough, at this stage, to satisfy the hundreds of thousands protesting against the performance of his government.
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In case you thought this was over: "Newsweek has learned from a Pentagon official, however, that regional U.S. military assets, including the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf, have been put on 72-hour standby."
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3 years
Practice makes perfect.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
I JUST GOT IMPEACHED FOR MAKING A PERFECT PHONE CALL!
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"Democrats have to do more than demand another apology. If the party wants to make a credible case against a nativist president, it cannot look the other way at the nativism of its own members." via @EliLake
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"As Trump rejected the election results, Pompeo’s State Department impeded the transition process. Messages from foreign leaders to President-elect Joe Biden piled up, as Pompeo declined to observe protocol and release them." @RonanFarrow via @NewYorker
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NEW: Ukraine sends its wishlist to Israel. Includes Iron Beam, Barak-8, Patriot, Iron Dome, David's Sling and Arrow systems + training for Ukrainian operators.
@BarakRavid
Barak Ravid
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סקופ: ממשלת אוקראינה שלחה אתמול לישראל איגרת ובה בקשה רשמית לקבל מערכות הגנה אווירית שיסייעו לה להתמודד עם התקפות שמבצעת רוסיה באמצעות מל"טים וטילים בליסטיים מתוצרת איראן. כל הפרטים בכתבה שלי ב- @WallaNews
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Rumors that Netanyahu considering suspension of judicial reforms. Dubious whether it will be enough, at this stage, to satisfy the hundreds of thousands protesting against the performance of his government.
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Meanwhile in Jerusalem: Netanyahu trying to figure out how he can congratulate Biden without guaranteeing that Trump vents his wrath on Israel before January 20th.
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Barak Ravid
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BREAKING: First Israeli minister congratulates Biden & Harris for their victory. Minister of Justice @AviNissenkorn says he is sure U.S.-Israel relations will strengthen under a Biden-Harris administration
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"A new Israeli proposal for a hostage deal includes...for the 1st time...a suggestion that Israeli leaders are open to discussing an end to the Gaza war as part of a deal." @BarakRavid Could break the stalemate; unclear that Netanyahu's govt can pass it.
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"We need to take Sinwar out of the game. This is the goal & it's possible. Hamas battalions' morale is weakening. We will break them with or w/o eliminating him, but if we kill him it'll happen much faster." - senior Israeli defense official to @BarakRavid
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Step 1: Break Fast at Trump Hotel. Step 2: Fast Break at Dulles.
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Laura Rozen
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when the day of atonement turns into getting arrested while trying to flee the country
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"Israel isn't the only regional actor striving to hedge its bets... But as the US and NATO unite to send Russia back to the Dark Ages, Israel needs to eliminate lingering doubts that it might not be playing on the right team." My latest via @ForeignPolicy .
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3 years
All in all, the US and Israel will remain fast friends who, sometimes, will agree to disagree. But the days of the Netanyahu-Trump symbiosis are over. Bibi and Biden will not be marching in lockstep - and it's all there in black and white.
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You'd think they would have waited until Easter.
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" @GovRonDeSantis presented the Trump administration's decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem as his own achievement, saying he worked to "cajole" the former president to make the move. He didn't mention former President Trump by name." @BarakRavid
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"Mossad director David Barnea visited Qatar over the weekend to discuss the release of the 235+ Israeli/ foreign nationals taken hostage & brought to Gaza on Oct 7... A source briefed on the talks said progress had been made." @BarakRavid
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4 years
In case there was any residual doubt:
@brett_mcgurk
Brett McGurk
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I served for two years in the Trump administration. There’s never coherent planning on anything because Trump himself eschews process and reacts to whatever is in the news. It’s all chaos and spasms—and it won’t change so long as he’s president.
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@anniekarni @maggieNYT Formerly Known as Prince.
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BREAKING: Netanyahllu accepts results ("President-elect") of US elections.
@IsraeliPM
Prime Minister of Israel
4 years
Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke this evening with US President-elect @JoeBiden . In a warm conversation, the President-elect reiterated his deep commitment to the State of Israel and its security.
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@djrothkopf @KarenAttiah @washingtonpost Guess the Swedes didn't buy enough of his weapons.
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"After his meeting with @RTErdogan on Tuesday, @yairlapid met with @PrimeministerGR . Israeli officials said Lapid wanted to make clear that the mending of relations with Turkey is not at the expense of Israel’s alliance with Greece." @BarakRavid
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“Trump is the cause of this, lock, stock and barrel,” said one Republican strategist. “But when you’re relying on someone to win you a Senate race that also lost statewide eight weeks prior, you’re not in a position of strength.”
@meridithmcgraw
Meridith McGraw
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And the blame game begins...w/ ⁦ @GabbyOrr_ ⁩ ⁦ @AndrewDesiderio ⁩ ⁦ @JamesArkin
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New candidates?
@talschneider
‏Tal Schneider טל שניידר تال شنايدر
4 years
News Alert: Commission on Presidential Debates says it will make changes to debate format after the spectacle in Cleveland
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Gantz "said his party will leave the govt if cabinet doesn't approve a Gaza war strategy by June 8." @BarakRavid A tall, & likely unfillable, order for Netanyahu's coalition. Gantz's departure will be a precursor to govt's collapse, but not automatically.
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"Support has largely continued publicly, but behind the scenes, there are growing signs that Biden is losing patience, US officials told @BarakRavid . "The situation sucks and we are stuck. The president's patience is running out," one US official said."
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"According to sources, @realDonaldTrump has decided to distance himself from @netanyahu after his failure to secure a clear victory in the April 9 elections... “The president doesn’t like losers,” said a @WhiteHouse source.”
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BREAKING: Netanyahu losing his marbles on live television. Trying to goad Bennett - "of unbridled ambition" - into supporting Netanyahu's unbridled ambition to remain prime minister through change of election laws. Jig is almost up.
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Barak Ravid
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BREAKING: Naftali Bennett says that if Netanyahu fails in forming a right wing government he will join the center-left bloc in an attempt to form a national unity government without Netanyahu
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. @ZelenskyyUa to @jonathanvswan on Russian assassination attempts: "When it happens for the 1st time, you are afraid — and on the 2nd, on the 3rd, on the 4th. But when it becomes repetitive — you remember that film Groundhog Day with Bill Murray?" 😆
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. @SecBlinken to @djrothkopf : "If this was about a matter of so-called principle—a Russian belief, for example, that Ukraine can never be allowed to become part of the West and must remain beholden to Moscow—then we have an unresolvable difference..."
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In news that REALLY matters... introducung my FIRST granddaughter!
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"In recent days, Bill Burns, director of the @CIA , has quietly traveled to Baghdad, according to multiple Iraqi sources on the ground... [and] quietly met with Iranian officials in the private home of the Iraqi foreign minister." @mrubin1971
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Iran's foreign minister lays out his nation's Biden gambit in @ForeignAffairs .
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So... the long-awaited @POTUS - @IsraeliPM call finally happened last night. Should never have been a big deal, but for the time elapsed since the inauguration. ( @netanyahu was the 3rd foreign leader called by Trump; @BarackObama called Olmert on his 1st day in @WhiteHouse ).
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The staying power of the United States is being questioned in a very, very serious way," Salih said. "And allies of the United States are worried about the dependability of the United States." Huge takeaways here via @jonathanvswan , with food for thought for #Israel .
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Jonathan Swan
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Exclusive: Iraqi president ready to "recalibrate" U.S. relationship
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"Brett McGurk, @POTUS ' top Middle East adviser, spoke on the phone several days ago w/Moroccan FM Bourita and confirmed that the Biden administration is not planning to roll back Trump's Western Sahara step." @BarakRavid #axiosfromtelaviv
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. @POTUS : "It happens to be a larger meeting taking place in Saudi Arabia. That’s the reason I’m going. And it has to do with national security for them — for Israelis." The plot thickens.
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Shalom Lipner
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. @IsraelMFA is broke. Some way to run a country.
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Barak Ravid
5 years
משרד החוץ במוות קליני. בשעה האחרונה קיבלו כל נציגויות ישראל בעולם הנחיה להקפיא כמעט את כל הפעילות למעט הדלקת האור בבוקר והנפת הדגל. הסיבה: נגמר הכסף. מצורפת תעודת הפטירה 👇👇👇
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Inventory of Israeli Govt "apologies" w/in past 24 hrs: * To Jordan, after Smotrich's remarks in France. * To UAE, after Regev's comments re: Dubai. * To Christians, over anti-proselytizing bill. #AmateurHour
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Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו
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לא נקדם שום חוק נגד הקהילה הנוצרית. We will not advance any law against the Christian community.
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"Biden decided to cut short his vacation & return to the White House on Saturday for consultations ahead of a possible Iranian attack against Israel... signaling that the WH thinks the Iranian attack could be imminent & take place w/in hours." @BarakRavid
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Shalom Lipner
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SO... #Israel and the #UAE are taking their romance public. What does it all mean? Some thoughts. This rel'nship has been one of the world's worst kept secrets. Beneficial for both parties - not least of which b/c of their shared agenda to halt #Iran 's nuclear ambitions. /1
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates
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"Russia’s high military command is under attack... Rest assured none of this would have happened if Putin’s war in Ukraine was going well." @djrothkopf
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"May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants—while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid" - George Washington, 1790 😥
@avitalrachel
Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt
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Three Jews stabbed in a synagogue in Monsey tonight. An intruder came into Rabbi Rottenberg's shul with a machete. There are no words to describe the anxiety of this moment.
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"The rejection of Netanyahu must also be a rejection of toxic partisanship in the US-Israel rel'nship... the fledgling coalition is placed to reorient the rel'nship back toward its bipartisan heritage." My latest w/ @WillWechsler in @PostOpinions :
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" @WHNSC officials are discussing releasing a first-ever @WhiteHouse action plan for global water security... [which] would elevate water security as a foreign policy objective." @HansNichols , @jonathanvswan
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"The age of self-inflicted American shame is over" - @SecPompeo , Cairo, 10 Jan Really?
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Lyin’ James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter S and his lover, agent Lisa Page, & more, all disgraced and/or fired and caught in the act. These are just some of the losers that tried to do a number on your President. Part of the Witch Hunt. Remember the “insurance policy?” This is it!
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"The Biden administration last week put a hold on a shipment of US-made ammunition to Israel." @BarakRavid Lends credence to warnings that it will restrict Israeli use of US weapons if Rafah offensive proceeds without addressing administration concerns.
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Shalom Lipner
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אגיד זאת שוב: ממשלת ישראל רשאית ומוסמכת להחליט עצמאית על דרכה. אבל למעשים ישנן השלכות. ועמדתו המעודכנת של הנשיא ביידן היא דוגמה מובהקת לכך. נקווה שנתניהו יתעשת לפני שייגרם נזק בלתי-הפיך ליחסים המיוחדים.
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Shalom Lipner
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בהזדמנות חגיגית זו, חוזר על אמירתי הקבועה: ממשלת ישראל רשאית לקבוע את מדיניותה באופן עצמאי, אבל להחלטותיה יש השלכות - כגון המחאה שהתפשטה לקהילות היהודיות בחו"ל - וכאשר היא תבקש בעתיד את תמיכתן המפורסמת של תפוצות ישראל, ולא תזכה לקבל אותה, הממשלה תצטער עמוקות ותוכל להאשים את עצמה.
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"[W]e need to support Israel, no ands, ifs, or buts," Bush added. "This is an unprovoked attack by terrorist people willing to kill innocent people to achieve an objective." @mikeallen , @zacharybasu , @BarakRavid
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"The alternative to cornering and humiliati[ng] Russia would be for the US & its allies to halt or reduce aid to Ukraine and impose a stalemate... [That] would be profoundly immoral, but equally to the point, it would be profoundly stupid." @EliotACohen
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"No one could listen to Putin’s rambling Friday rant and draw any conclusion other than the fact that the longer Putin remains in office, the greater the damage that he will do." @djrothkopf
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"If the conclusion from this war is that nuclear-armed states have the ability to do whatever they want to their neighbors, because the risks of fighting back against them are too high, the world will not be left a safer place." @djrothkopf
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"On his way out, Trump is leaving destruction—actual, not metaphorical—in his wake. What wreckage will tomorrow bring?" @sbg1 asks the frightening question on everyone's mind.
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גאה להימנות גם אני עם בוגרי התכנית - שמטרתה לשפר את השרות הציבורי בישראל - ומזועזע לראות איך רכישת השכלה בהרווארד נהפכה פתאום, מטעמים פוליטיים ציניים, לתופעה בזויה. הייתה לי את הזכות לשרת תחת שבעה ראשי ממשלה, מימין ומשמאל, וחווית וקסנר רק סייעה במילוי התפקיד. פדופילים?! השתגעתם.
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Alon Ben-David
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עזבו אבטלה, עזבו קורונה, מה שהעסיק השבוע את רה"מ זה קרן וקסנר. נתניהו בעצמו מינה רבים מבוגרי הקרן ועל אחרים המליץ. בוגר הפוסיקט מכנה אותם "כת הפדופילים". הניסיון להכתים אותם הוא חלק מהמאמץ לערער את המקצועיות של השירות הציבורי. וכן, גם אני בוגר גאה
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"What Putin did by going to war was to end forever the idea that Ukraine could or should be neutral toward Russia. Putin effectively if unintentionally pushed it into the arms of NATO and the EU whether that is formally acknowledged or not." @djrothkopf
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. @StephensWSJ @nytimes This is all going somewhere very dark, very fast. Can't (or don't want to) imagine what Week 2 holds in store.
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Shalom Lipner
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Would be a huge moral/strategic mistake for Israel to drift back toward supposed neutrality (or worse) on Ukraine.
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Barak Ravid
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3 \ The new Israeli FM said he is going to draft a “responsible” new policy on the war in Ukraine and stressed the foreign ministry “will prepare a detailed presentation to the security cabinet on this issue”. He also said the Israeli humanitarian aid to Ukraine will continue
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The plot thickened.
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"The rude awakening of Oct 7 sent Israeli decision-makers back to the drawing board, their previous strategy in tatters...Nobody, incl Hamas, could claim credibly to be surprised by the IDF response to that day's atrocities." My latest via @AtlanticCouncil
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Shalom Lipner
5 years
... which adversaries of the US are gobbling up with gusto.
@tackettdc
Michael Tackett
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"In the emerging picture, the Trump White House is a toxic stew of personality disputes, policy differences, political rivalries, ethical debates and a fundamental rift over the president himself." @maggienyt @peterbakernyt
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Shalom Lipner
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Trump defends his Charlottesville remarks... NYT depicts Netanyahu as a dog... Another synagogue shooting in America. Antisemites don't lack motivation to target Jews, but one would hope that institutions of American democracy could stop contributing to the pathology.
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"We think it will be very hard to replicate the huge success we had on Saturday with defeating the attack if Iran launches hundreds of missiles and drones again — and the Israelis know it," a U.S. official said. @BarakRavid
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"According to a proposal being discussed between the US, Israel & Qatar, Hamas would release 10-15 hostages and use the 3-day pause to verify the identities of all the hostages & deliver a list of names of the people it is holding." @BarakRavid
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Shalom Lipner
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"The prognosis for Russia’s future is, in the eyes of every expert with whom I spoke, dark and getting darker all the time." @djrothkopf
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"Without getting into specifics — we came away from those discussions [w/ @kbsalsaud ] confident that we have a path to get back towards normalization and that there is an interest on the Saudi side to pursue that," @WhiteHouse 's John Kirby said. @BarakRavid
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Shalom Lipner
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"“The UAE has taken a strategic decision [to establish relations with Israel], and strategic decisions are long-term,” @AnwarGargash , a UAE presidential diplomatic adviser, told a conference in Dubai on Wednesday."
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Shalom Lipner
1 year
Not the Ramadan scenario that Israeli security officials were preparing for...
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Shalom Lipner
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BOOM: "Israeli Defense Minister @yoavgallant told @SecDef Austin during their phone call on Monday that Israel has not yet set a date for an operation in Rafah." @BarakRavid
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Shalom Lipner
2 months
Would take this statement with a grain of 🧂. Can't be detached entirely from the political pressure he's facing within his coalition. Has also said, multiple times, that IDF plans from Rafah have been approved and yet, still, hasn't happened.
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Shalom Lipner
2 months
"למרבה האבסורד, בשעה שצה"ל ושירותי הביטחון מרוכזים כולם במאבק מול אויבי ישראל מושבעים ובמאמץ להצלת השבויים, ממשלת נתניהו בוחרת להשקיע את זמנה היקר בטיפוח עימות עם ארה"ב... נדמה, כי רה"מ התבלבל בזהות הצורר האמיתי." מאמר חדש פרי עטי ב- @Haaretz .
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
3 years
"Only nine of Biden's ambassador picks have been confirmed to date. By Oct. 18 of the first year of prior administrations: George W. Bush: 73 confirmed ambassadors Barack Obama: 59 Donald Trump: 24" #axiossneakpeek
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
4 years
Sounds like the other G7 principals have had enough with being props in Trump's rampage against America's erstwhile allies.
@herszenhorn
David M. Herszenhorn
4 years
German Chancellor Angela Merkel rebuffs @realDonaldTrump 's invitation to G7, sensing trip to DC could be toxic — health-wise that is. #EU leaders also suspect Trump wants to use them for a photo op, as #US has done little traditional preparation for summit
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
1 year
היה ניתן לחשוב כי ממשלת ימין ישראלית - אשר, כבר נאמר על ידי נציגיה, סומכת יותר על תמיכה אוונגלית מאשר יהודית אמריקנית - לא היתה פותחת חזית חדשה מול קהילה זו, ודווקא בשעה שישראל מדממת תומכים בתפוצות.
@kobbybarda
קובי ברדה-Kobby Barda
1 year
1. תהיו איתי רגע, כי מתגלגלת פה פצצה תדמיתית ברמות מטורפות. חקיקה של ח"כ גפני וח"כ אשר המחמירה את הענישה על מיסיונריות (שאגב הונחו בעבר על שולחן הכנסת אפילו ע"י טומי לפיד ז"ל) תופסת תאוצה מטורפת. אני חי את הקהילה האוונגלית והתפיסה שישראל רודפת אחרי נוצרים היא פיגוע תדמיתי->
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
3 months
" @WhiteHouse is puzzled that @IsraeliPM rejected its interpretation of the resolution, decided to air his differences publicly & to tell the US what its policy is when the US is already stating its policy, which is different from what he says." @BarakRavid
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
4 months
"Israel remains reluctant to concretize its plans for the Gaza Strip’s future. Conceding the initiative to other interested parties is a terrible strategy for safeguarding Israel’s national interests." My latest via @AtlanticCouncil .
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
3 years
"By the inauguration, there will be more US troops stationed in DC than in all of Afghanistan or Iraq, some 20,000 in total, and, for the 1st time since the 1860s, Nat'l Guard soldiers are garrisoned in the Capitol." @sbg1 puts things in bleak perspective.
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
2 years
@SamuelSokol @AlonPinkas Where the answer to a question about antisemitism is... to double down on "those bad Jews" for not loving Israel as much as "we" do. And even if they did love Israel more, would that then make antisemitism acceptable? This is all so messed up. @nathanguttman , @jacobkornbluh
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
5 years
"Trump himself, in other words, was putting together a rogue foreign-policy team, run by Giuliani, the President’s private attorney, that would go outside normal N.S.C. and State Department channels to pressure Ukraine." @sbg1 chronicles the demise.of American governance.
@peterbakernyt
Peter Baker
5 years
“The floodgates may have opened”: The witnesses trooping up to Capitol Hill are providing a lot of information about the shadow foreign policy run by Trump’s lawyer and associates. @sbg1
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
3 years
"באבו דאבי היו מוכנים להבליג על רצונו של נתניהו לקבל תמונה משותפת לפני הבחירות, ואפילו להתעלם משרבוב הסכם השלום לקמפיין הליכוד, אבל כשראש הממשלה עיוות את דבריו של יורש העצר עבור צרכיו הפוליטיים זו הייתה חציה של קו אדום. הם רתחו." @BarakRavid , @WallaNews
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
3 years
Note the jolly smile in his press release; no photo in the WH version. Israeli readout refers to their "very warm and friendly" conversation, which lasted for "approx 1 hour" - vs. Biden's "good" w/no mention of call's duration.
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
5 years
@tcwittes At the Ritz...?
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
7 months
"During the Doha talks, the director of Mossad told his three counterparts that Israel won't agree to any discussion on a new hostage deal before the current one is fully implemented and all women & children who are held hostage are released." @BarakRavid
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
3 years
Neither of them uses Trump's "Abraham Accords" nomenclature: Netanyahu refers to "peace accords" - while Biden speaks of normalization (a process that nobody "owns" presumably) and advancing "peace throughout the region, incl btw Israelis and Palestinians." No Pals for Netanyahu.
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
2 months
"A family member of a hostage who is a US citizen told Netanyahu that not only does the White House embrace the families, it also supports them and keeps them informed. They told the Israeli government doesn't act the same way." @BarakRavid
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
1 year
“Trump made a campaign promise in 2016 that he would move the US embassy to Jerusalem and he did just that. DeSantis is trying to cajole and gaslight others into thinking he had anything to do with that,” a Trump campaign spokesman said. @ShelbyTalcott
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
4 years
Headline: Obituaries mourning the demise of bipartisan support for the US-Israel alliance exposed as premature amid wave of centrist candidates for @TheDemocrats presidential nomination signing up to address @AIPAC policy conference.
@jacobkornbluh
Jacob N. Kornbluh
4 years
Pete joins Biden, Klobuchar and Bloomberg (in-person) to address AIPAC
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
2 years
. @stevenacook to @colmfquinn : “What doesn’t follow to me is the argument that there’s some security threat to Turkey [from NATO ascension].. . It suggests that what’s really going on is that there seems to be more opposition in Congress to Turkey’s F-16s.”
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
2 months
"Israel will establish a "platform that enables coordination between the IDF's Southern Command & int'l orgs vis-à-vis distribution of aid" & allocate "appropriate resources" for aid distribution." @BarakRavid Shouldn't this have happened before today...?
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
1 month
" @WhiteHouse sees the Rafah operation as "limited" so far and doesn't believe Israel has crossed @POTUS ' "red line," which could lead to a shift in U.S. policy toward the war in Gaza, U.S. officials told @axios ." @BarakRavid
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
2 years
BREAKING: Political turmoil in #Israel as chairwoman (!) of ruling Knesset coalition announces intent to bolt her own coalition, taking away PM Bennett's majority in parliament and putting future of his govt in doubt. Bennett learns of her resignation from...this morning's news.
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
8 months
. @POTUS : "Israel is going after a group of people who have engaged in barbarism that is as consequential as the Holocaust. So I think Israel has to respond. They have to go after Hamas. Hamas is a bunch of cowards. They're hiding behind the civilians."
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
2 years
Israeli officials to @BarakRavid : "Putin’s proposal is difficult for Zelensky to accept but not as extreme as they anticipated. The proposal doesn’t include regime change in Kyiv and allows Ukraine to keep its sovereignty."
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
5 years
Trump now getting his information directly from... Putin's secretary.
@lrozen
Laura Rozen
5 years
Trump says early this morning Turkey informed him stopping combat/offensive in Syria and so Trump lifting sanctions on Turkey.
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@ShalomLipner
Shalom Lipner
4 years
They don't want to talk to him. He doesn't want to talk to them.
@LahavHarkov
Lahav Harkov 🎗️
4 years
Pompeo did not meet with any Palestinians during his six-hour visit to Israel.
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