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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

7 years

George Stephanopoulos just interviewed @nikkihaley , asked several qs about Fire&Fury, which she says she didn’t, wouldn’t read. Not one q about Iran (Haley led a UNSecCou session on it Friday) #WashingtonPriorities

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@jeffcharlesjr @RobGeorge Right. Israel and the Nazis on the same side. Idiocy

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Monday column about the importance of the unified NewYear message tweeted by Iran regime opponents. And it’s “just the beginning,” says ⁦ @AlinejadMasih ⁩

Iranian Opposition Figures Show Unity in Defying Regime

Although the regime is attempting to block access to social media, Iranians are well aware of the postings, learning about them through virtual private…

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4 years

@SethAMandel Will contemplate this next time I’m on the GWB, driving toward the FDR drive on my way to a flight from JFK

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. @NewYorkSun my Tuesday column: as chem/bio weapons re used to deter young Iranian women from attending school, the regime is launching a sham investigation. No wonder @AlinejadMasih compares IRI to the Taliban

Tehran Compared to Taliban as Iranian Schoolgirls Targeted by Gas Attacks

‘This is payback for the girls who are protesting against the compulsory hijab,’ an exiled champion of women’s rights in Iran, Masih Alinejad, tells the…

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Sunday column:⁩ a surprise ⁦ @PahlaviReza Holocaust Memorial Day visit to Israel, following the Iranian regime’s alQuds day, contrasts today’s Islamic Republic with the Iran of tomorrow

Son of Deposed Shah of Iran Announces Surprise Visit to Israel To 'Rekindle' an 'Ancient Bond'

The surprise visit follows — and contrasts — Friday’s al-Quds Day, an annual event created by the Islamic Republic to encourage Iranians and Muslims…

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2 years

Better than all UNGA speeches. Watch

Masih Alinejad 🏳️

@AlinejadMasih

2 years

Outside the UN I challenged the Biden administration not to deal with a regime that kills women: "We aren't asking Biden to bring democracy for us. People of Iran are brave enough themselves. We don't want them to save us, we want them to stop saving the regime." #MahsaAmini

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@YosephHaddad @issacharoff The life of the other man in the picture, Khaled Meshal, was also saved when Israel was forced to provide an antidote following an attempt on his life

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.⁦ @nypost ⁩ my Tuesday column: as Israelis go to polls for the 2d time this year, the only real issue they need to sort out is to Bibi or not to Bibi

Netanyahu’s policies aren’t on the line in Israel’s election...

TEL AVIV — Left or right? War or diplomacy? Socialism or free-market economy? Tuesday’s election here is about none of these. It’s about Bibi. Israel’s politics nowadays seem almost as...

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Thursday column: as Ukraine is hit with a missile barrage, its UN ambassador ⁦⁦ @SergiyKyslytsya ⁩ relaunches his campaign to undermine the legitimacy of Russia’s UN seat

Under Assault, Ukraine Attempts To Undermine Russia at UN

Moscow is set to take over the revolving presidency of the Security Council even as it attacks Ukraine with at least 81 missiles and eight Iranian-made…

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2 years

PressTV, a state-owned Iranian propaganda outlet, is attacking ⁦ @AlinejadMasih ⁩, who escaped several IRGC assassination plots. Twitter has no qualms about this form of death threat on its site

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3 years

Jake Sullivan just said sanctions will be one of the measures taken if Taliban don’t comply. This from an admin arguing sanctions don’t work in Iran’s case

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2 years

.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Wednesday column: US leads in kicking Iran out of a UN commission it had no business being on to begin with. Would Biden further help Iranians by supporting their struggle to overthrow the IRI regime?

America on the Spot as UN Expels Iran From Commission on the Status of Women

Will the Biden administration follow up in support of the protesters?

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@bennyavni

2 years

Watch this. Then watch again

Masih Alinejad 🏳️

@AlinejadMasih

2 years

Please listen to this interview on CNN and be my voice. Last week Iranian regime arrested anti compulsory hijab women inside Iran and tortured them to denounce themselves and me on state TV. Now they send a man with loaded AK-47 in New York to kill me.

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10 months

Few people crystallize a situation as well and as bravely as @AlinejadMasih

Masih Alinejad 🏳️

@AlinejadMasih

10 months

Hamas and Islamic Republic are terrorists, and they do not talk for the people of Iran or Palestine. The whole situation in Israel and Gaza is an incredible tragedy. While this is a proxy war by the Islamic Republic and its terrorist arm Quds Force and should be condemned in

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Reup my ⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ story about a deal Mexico cut with a UN agency to supply the country’s pharma. The result: major drug shortages and many deaths. ⁦Thanks to @MElenaPerezJaen ⁩ , a lead voice in exposing the scandal

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1 year

While a country with a top medical care system and pioneering innovation in the field, Taiwan, can’t even become a WHO observer

Hillel Neuer

@HillelNeuer

1 year

BREAKING: North Korea, a regime that starves its own people, was just elected to the @WHO Executive Board. No joke:

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Tuesday column: anti-Iranian regime activists say their social media accounts are censored, while the Mullahs’ postings are undisturbed

As Iran Mullahs Post Propaganda, Anti-Regime Protesters Charge Social Media Censorship

What started as angry street protests against the government’s handling of the economy has gelled into outright defiance of the Islamic Republic, its…

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6 months

The world is a better place with @AlinejadMasih in it

Masih Alinejad 🏳️

@AlinejadMasih

6 months

I’m joyful first for having been given a second life and I rejoice in the humiliation of Islamic Republic. Today one of three men hired by the Islamic Republic to murder me in New York has been extradited to the U.S. That means all three who plotted to kill me are in the hands of

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On #WhiteWednesdays do the right thing: join @AlinejadMasih and remove your mandatory hijab — or at least support the rights of Iranian women to live the way they want to. (Extra bonus: the mullahs will hate you for it)

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3 years

@AlinejadMasih is an Iranian hero. She’s also an American citizen and a Brooklynite. Her would-be kidnappers are IRI agents dispatched by the government in Tehran. This crime should be prosecuted, yes, in the courts. But surely also in the political arena

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This. America, once the world leading superpower, has become indistinguishable from the UN. The country that led DDay now acts by crafting “strongly worded” gibberish. Ps: even at the UN, a “press statement” is the lowest form of SecCou action

Hillel Neuer

@HillelNeuer

3 years

🇺🇸 Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says U.S. expressed "in no uncertain terms" at the United Nations through "a very strongly worded press statement" from the Security Council that "we expect the Taliban to respect women's rights" and "to be respectful of humanitarian law."

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3 years

Read read read

Masih Alinejad 🏳️

@AlinejadMasih

3 years

My latest in Washington Post challenges Censorship in the name of Islamophobia. Will the legislation sponsored by @Ilhan play into the hands of those who wish to curtail criticism of Islamism in the US. Our fear of Islamic ideology is rational #LetUsTalk

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3 years

Watching the Sunday news shows, I think of a posting I saw in Israel today: “the rest of the world is behind, still stuck with Covid while we’re already four catastrophes ahead.”

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@bennyavni

7 years

Khamenei poster taken down economically, not, god forbid, politically

Hadi Nili

@HadiNili

7 years

Abhar, #Zanjan - #IranProtests , 3rd day, Dec 30: Protesters take down the billboard w/ Khamenei's picture on it.

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6 years

The UN votes on Cuba will undoubtedly be presented as a huge defeat for US & @nikkihaley but remember: they’re voting in favor of Cuba. Yes, THAT Cuba. So these votes are actually a huge defeat for the UN

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5 years

I repeat my challenge to reporters attending today’s Rouhani presser: ask why Ali Alinejad was arrested, when his only “crime” is being related to @AlinejadMasih

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@bennyavni

5 years

Iranians never invite me to pressers like Rouhani’s I urge those who’ll be there to ask:what crime(other than being ⁦ @AlinejadMasih ‘s brother) did Ali Alinejad commit?Why blindfolded,jailed,computer confiscated? #HumanRights #Feminism

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7 years

if you’re looking for the worst advice on how the US should handle the Iran unrest, this is pure gold

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5 years

@AlinejadMasih commits journalism. At the UN of all places

Masih Alinejad 🏳️

@AlinejadMasih

5 years

When you see Islamic Republic officials challenge them about #ForcedHijab This is how I grilled Iranian Vice President @mowlaverdi & other female parliamentarians when they came to United Nation. Don’t say hijab is the law of the country. Slavery us to be legal. #WhiteWednesdays

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And for those who ask about legal justification for killing Soleimani in Iraq: there’s a UN travel ban barring him from traveling outside Iran. #justsaying

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5 years

One thing that’s got to stop is this “Palestinians ‘of color’ v Jews are white” business. If you really need to go all race-woke (and why would you) Jews, including the Ashkenazi variety, and Palestinian Arabs share same DNA roots

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Wednesday column: a UN sanction will sunset October ‘23, allowing Iran to export missiles to Russia — unless snapback kills the JCPOA once and for all. West must choose: Iran or Ukraine?

Time for the West To Choose: Iran or Ukraine

By continuing to pursue a revival of the Iran nuclear deal, the Islamic Republic would soon be free to ship missiles to Russia for use against Ukraine.…

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Wednesday column: ⁦ @SergiyKyslytsya ⁩ dates the West’s misreading of the Kremlin to the early days of the USSR’s asset handover to the RussianFederation, which included the UN SecCou seat

Many Share Blame for Russia Situation, Says Ukraine’s Envoy to UN

The issues with Russia started before its forcible annexation of Crimea in 2014, the 2008 Georgia invasion, or the propping up of Syria’s president,…

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Tuesday column: alQaeda’s top prospects to replace alZawahiri reside in Iran, a country that plots to assassinate Americans on US soil. Why should Washington allow Raisi to visit New York in September?

Will Iran Participate in UN General Assembly Even While Harboring Terrorists?

The one factor that unites the most oft-mentioned names on the list of candidates to lead Al Qaeda: They all reside in Iran.

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@AlinejadMasih “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country”: Ahmadinejad

Ahmadinejad: No homosexuals in Iran

(24 Sep 2007) HEADLINE: Ahmadinejad: No homosexuals in IranCAPTION: Speaking at Columbia University Monday, Iranian President Mamoud Ahmadinejad continued to...

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Thursday column: who will replace Michele Bachelet as UN human rights chief? As ⁦ @HillelNeuer ⁩ says, why not ⁦ @AlinejadMasih ⁩?

With UN’s Human Rights Chief Stepping Down Unexpectedly, Who Will Take the Seat?

An Iranian dissident is seen as an ideal candidate, but with Secretary-General Guterres apparently in no position to appoint her, expect the nod to go to…

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2 years

Social networks, including this one @Twitter , should deny service to all IRI officials and state-owned propaganda channels until internet is fully reinstated across Iran and protestors can utilize social networks for fighting their oppressors

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5 years

⁦ @AlinejadMasih ⁩ on Her brother, Ali: ”I loved to regale him with tales of my amazing sunflowers and the little patch of basil and mint I tend to in Brooklyn, N.Y. His arrest is an attempt to silence me and other women who resist”

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Monday column: how the UN Human Rights Council, in violation of own rules, discriminates against ⁦ @UNWatch ⁩ and ⁦⁦ @HillelNeuer ⁩

UN Official Accused of Bias Against Watchdog Group

Famed NGO head calls on Secretary General to suspend an official pending a full investigation.

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

3 years

Also: fighting Israeli “colonialism” with BritishEmpire-issued coins

Lahav Harkov 🎗️

@LahavHarkov

3 years

Kind of a self-own to post a coin that says “Land of Israel” on it, but ok, go on

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Thursday column on the European Parliament’s correct call to designate the IRGC a terror organization — and how a more decisive action, including by Biden, is still needed

Europe, U.S. Inch Closer to Taking Meaningful Action Against Iran

Yet an Iran watcher at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies says as long as Brussels ‘remains oriented and animated by the JCPOA, it’s unclear’ if…

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@bennyavni

3 years

Gas pipelines are bad so watch out Canada, Israel, Greece, Cyprus. But they’re not that bad, so go ahead, Russia

Lahav Harkov 🎗️

@LahavHarkov

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Another shift from Trump-era policy: US informs Israel it no longer supports EastMed pipeline to Europe

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Finally, an arrest in the Iranian plot to assassinate ⁦ @AmbJohnBolton ⁩. Then there are threats on ⁦ @SecPompeo ⁩ Brian Hook et al. And of course ⁦ @AlinejadMasih ⁩. An enemy state campaign of ssassinations on American soil

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From ⁦ @AmbDaniDayan ⁩ piece in the NYT: I was the interviewer

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Tuesday column: It’s clear why Iran is cultivating Washington influencers, but why would the administration admit them to policy inner circles?

Washington Split by Reports Showing Iran Sympathizers Weakening American Positions on Tehran

One of those sympathizers, Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group, visited the White House at least five times in the last two years. The reports…

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2 years

@Doranimated Translation from the Chinese: -“Can you get me off the hook, Tom? For old times’ sake?” -“Can’t do it, Sally”

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4 years

An official of a state that bans the use of Twitter addresses citizens of another state that bans Twitter — on Twitter @jack

Javad Zarif

@JZarif

4 years

10月1日，中国人民将迎来新中国成立71周年和中秋佳节。2020年对全世界来说都是极为特殊的一年，中国成功控制住疫情并实现经济强��复苏，来之不易、成之惟艰。值此双节相逢的喜庆日子，谨向中国政府和人民致以“双倍”热烈祝贺。祝愿中国更加繁荣昌盛，也祝愿两国全面战略伙伴关系前景更加广阔。

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A ⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ editorial on the silence of the Biden administration as a terrorist attack against ⁦ @AlinejadMasih ⁩ is spoiled (for now) in Brooklyn

Biden, Blinken Mum on Iranian Terror at Brooklyn

Rather than using American leverage as a tool to engage the mullahs diplomatically, the logic, in the face of attempted or threatened attacks on…

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All he really needs to do is to create chaos in Moldova, Romania, and elsewhere and show that the West will fail to react — and for that he doesn’t need tanks and jets: @ivanastradner

Unrest in Breakaway Region of Moldova Could Be Part of Putin’s Grand War Strategy

‘All he really needs to do,’ one analyst tells the Sun, ‘is to create chaos in Moldova, Romania, and elsewhere and show that the West will fail to react —…

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Wednesday column: in two separate incidents UN blocks ⁦ @giladerdan1 ⁩ and ⁦ @HillelNeuer ⁩ from exposing ⁦ @UNRWA ⁩ antisemitic incidents, citing obscure rules

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2 years

Great guitarist. Pray

New York Post

@nypost

2 years

Carlos Santana collapses on stage during Michigan performance

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. @WSJopinion My Wednesday column: international restrictions are about to expire even as Iran violates the UN SecCou resolution that turned JCPOA into law. POTUS can/should trigger snapback now. And yes, he can via @WSJ

Opinion | Making ‘Maximum Pressure’ Multilateral Again

Even from outside the nuclear deal, the U.S. can trigger ‘snapback’ global sanctions against Iran.

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6 years

Currently tearing into Israel’s policy toward Gaza’s Palestinians is the UN Ambassador of Kuwait, the only country to ethnically cleanse all Palestinians from its territory

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Shot: Blinken says no Americans left behind Chaser: Shahab Dalili remains at Evan

As $6 Billion Iran Hostage Deal Is Celebrated, Family of a Sixth Hostage Wonders Why He Wasn’t...

One cheerleader of the administration’s latest rapprochement deal with the Islamic Republic is the man who ran President Biden’s Iran policy until April,…

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6 years

What a disaster

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Monday column: Do US, Israel begin to realize that Qatar is part of the Mideast problem, rather than the solution?

When Will America, Israel Realize Qatar Is a Big Part of the Problem?

That’s the question as the top leadership in the Biden administration cozies up to Hamas’s benefactors at Doha.

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@RashidaTlaib Yeah, enough with the Passover bread already

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@lindseyhilsum IDF dropped leaflets with the same message in Arabic at Gaza City and the north of the strip

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7 years

Biggest trait Trump lacks: an ounce of decency

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NikkiHaley to me just now: “yes it was” (a success). Re: snipes at US: “those don’t bother me. We were fighting for the Iranian pple today. They were heard. That was our goal and we won”

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. @nypost My Tuesday column - Many blame Saudis for breaking Lebanon, having no strategy to fix it. Wrong: this is on Iran

It’s not the Saudis destroying Lebanon — it’s Iran

If you read media coverage of the latest crisis in Lebanon, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s all pretty simple: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is pushing Lebanon to the brink of war...

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.⁦ @WSJopinion ⁩ my Wednesday column: if ⁦ @JoeBiden ⁩ really cares about human rights he should thank ⁦ @realDonaldTrump ⁩ and maintain amped up sanctions

Opinion | Trump Helps Biden Push Iran Toward Democracy

The incumbent confronts Tehran on terrorism and human-rights abuses.

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Friday column: the telltale sign that the anti-regime revolt has turned the corner would be defections among the IRGC and other regime enforcers

How To Tell If the Iranian Protesters Are Winning

One telltale sign would be defections among the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and other regime enforcers.

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7 years

From the southern ex-gov who removed confederate flags from state building

Archive: Ambassador Nikki Haley

@AmbNikkiHaley

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I know all to well the pain hate can cause. The American Spirit that binds us has no place for actions like this. #PrayersForCharlottesville

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun my Monday column:⁩ like the “Tehran” series Israel assassinates a top IRGC Colonel and interrogates an operative. Meanwhile Washington continues to pursue a diplomatic deal, which if completed will benefit the IRGC. Irony anyone?

As Senate Prepares To Weigh Biden’s Bid for Iran Deal, Israel Mooted as Being Behind Assassination...

Israel seems to be signaling to anyone who would listen that regardless of any diplomacy with Iran, it would continue to operate there.

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Just caught CBS FaceTheNation intvw with JavadZarif. Many qs about his views on US politicians (Trump, Bolton, Pompeo). Not one about Iran: politics, oppression of demonstrators/women, economy mismanagement, supporting a Syrian butcher, threats to annihilate israel..

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6 years

No mention of @AmbJohnBolton

Archive: Ambassador Nikki Haley

@AmbNikkiHaley

6 years

Thank you to Lieutenant General HR McMaster for your service and loyalty to our country. Your selfless courage and leadership has inspired all of us. Most of all, thank you for your friendship. 🇺🇸

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.⁦ @nypost ⁩ my Sunday column: Nazi nostalgia is cropping up in Europe, but resurgent antisemitism isn’t only on the far right

'Fun' anti-semitic displays in Europe should shock Jews everywhere

All of a sudden nostalgia for 1930s Germany resurges across Europe, where some dismiss it as “just fun.” Carnival marchers in the Belgian town of Aalst last week were dressed up as Jewish...

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⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Thursday column: as Tehran’s assassination campaign expands globally, Biden, Macron, and the EU are yet to devise a strategy to combat Iranian terror

Tehran’s Terrorism Is Pressing Issue for Biden, Macron

In addition to numerous plots against American officials and U.S.-based Iranian dissidents, there have been many Tehran-backed assassination attempts on…

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2 years

What does Zelensky know that @AdamKinzinger doesn’t?

Lahav Harkov 🎗️

@LahavHarkov

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Late last night, hours after his speech, Zelensky took a different tack, posting on his telegram: “I appreciate the efforts of PM Bennett. Of course Israel has its interests to defend its citizens. We understand this. Bennett is trying to find a way to hold talks in Jerusalem 1/

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. @nypost my column tomorrow: Trump’s Obama-like decision to abandon Syria is his worst so far as president

The Syria withdrawal may be Trump's biggest blunder to date

In what will likely mark the worst foreign policy decision of his presidency to date, President Trump on Wednesday announced that he is ceding Syria to the jackals. “We have defeated ISIS in Syria,...

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The Hariri tribunal was established bc supposedly the Lebanese justice system was insufficient: corrupted by politics, slow and wasteful of resources. 15 years and $1b later, the tribunal’s decision is all the above and worse

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. @NYPost My column tomorrow: Iranians are in the streets, this time in Tehran, to protest their government. This is no time for Trump to legitimize the regime. Don’t negotiate, squeeze until Iranians throw the bums out

Protests in Iran prove Trump is getting it right

While Team Trump is divided over Iran policy — some say negotiate, others advocate pressure aimed at regime change — defiant Iranians taking to the streets of the capital are resolving that...

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@bennyavni

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.⁦ @NewYorkSun �� my Friday column: Like the Communists at Beijing, who are mum on deposed Foreign Minister Qin, the Biden administration is stonewalling questions on Robert Malley.

Administration Mum, Even to Congress, on Fate of Biden’s Point Man on Iran

‘The state department has a communication problem,’ an analyst tells the Sun. ‘They can’t announce that the nuclear deal is dead. They can’t announce…

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

5 years

@jacobkornbluh As Netanayahu’s namesake BB King sang, The Thrill Is Gone

Netanyahu's one-man Israeli rule likely over thanks to 'Bibi fatigue'

TEL AVIV — Benjamin Netanyahu may yet survive his lackluster performance in Israel’s election Tuesday. But the one-man rule that marked most of his time in office is likely over. Known by fans as...

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

2 years

.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Tuesday column: attempting to change the subject, the IRGC shells Erbil, blaming Kurds for the anti-regime “hair revolution”

Tehran Tries To Scapegoat Kurds for Widening Rebellion

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is turning its ire on the region’s perennially oppressed minority as the regime blames outside instigators for the…

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

6 years

@DaysofPalestine “West Bank of Palestine.” Does that mean Jordan is Palestine?

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2 years

@jacobkornbluh @FaceTheNation For Bernie Sanders aid to Israel should always be conditioned, no matter what government is in power

Bernie Sanders: U.S. Should Have a Say in How Israel Uses Military Aid » Senator Bernie Sanders

By: Ben Samuels; Haaretz Sen. Bernie Sanders will tell the J Street 2021 National Conference on Monday that the United States should be able to determine how Israel uses the aid it gives to the...

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

5 years

Outrageous, even in outrage-center standards

Hillel Neuer

@HillelNeuer

5 years

In protest of the UN Human Rights Council's unprecedented censorship of my speech below, I have formally withdrawn my speaking slot in the next UNHRC debate today. I urge UN rights chief @mbachelet & monitor @davidakaye to speak out for freedom of speech with the UN itself.

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

8 years

Why do people post stories from 1933?

Benjamin Weinthal

@BenWeinthal

8 years

German guesthouse turns away Israelis: 'Our apartments are not for them' @Jerusalem_Post

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

3 years

NYT crossword puzzle, ladies and gentlemen. (Tip: US doesn’t recognize a “Palestinian state.” Question: which of the two PalStates is Gaza in?)

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@bennyavni

8 years

Khizr Khan was best moment in both conventions

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5 years

.⁦ @nypost ⁩ my Wednesday column: Iran’s clerics are rooting on a Bernie, Kamala or Warren who’d give them back their beloved nuclear deal

Iran is putting its hopes on a Democratic president

Observing America’s politics from Tehran must feel like sitting courtside at the US Open: Your head pivots side to side as you cheer your favorite player, hoping he’ll win the next set. And...

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

3 years

.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Wednesday column: the UN fired ⁦ @EmmaReillyTweet ⁩ today. Meet the new boss. Same as the old.. actually not. At the UN the current boss is China

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@bennyavni

2 years

Blessed escalation. Public radio Kan defies Beijing, interviews Taiwan’s rep in Israel. Earlier, after @yaakovkatz interviewed Taiwan’s ForMin, Chinese embassy in israel threatened to downgrade relations with the country unless @Jerusalem_Post removes the piece from its site

⁦🏳️‍🌈⁩ ערן סיקורל |Eran Cicurel |عيران شيكوريل

@EranCicurel

2 years

Taiwan's representative to Israel, Ya-Ping Lee on Israel Public Radio @ReshetBet : "Following Ukraine, we are very cautious and prepared for "any task" China gives us. We must rely on our ability to defend ourselves. Possibility of Chinese invasion always exists." @TaiwaninIsrael

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

6 years

Aren’t those who named @IlhanMN for a slot in the House ForRelComm slightly embarrassed? Between anti-Israel diatribes and that line of questioning (?) today to Elliott “Adams” she displays impressive amounts of ignorance about world affairs

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

2 years

Which is why the EU is an untrustworthy ally

EU Proving a Reluctant U.S. Ally as Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran Tighten Ties

As global blocs are formed, America needs to tighten its alliances. When it comes to Europe, it would do better to ally with like-minded countries than…

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Jason Brodsky

@JasonMBrodsky

2 years

I don't follow EU politics closely on all matters, but for those who do, is there precedent for the president of the European Commission to come out publicly in favor of a proposal, for example designating #IRGCterrorists , only to have the HR/VP appear opposed? An odd dynamic.

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2 years

@HillelNeuer Because the ‘human rights council’ and human rights have nothing in common?

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2 years

Limiting free speech must be the only way to defend democracy

Reuters

@Reuters

2 years

Human rights groups including the ACLU and Amnesty International raised concerns about hate speech on Twitter and the power that Elon Musk, a self-described 'free speech absolutist,' would have after his acquisition

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

5 months

@afneil @DavidDeutschOxf Also where was that concern for the sanctity of diplomatic installations when the IslRep launched its revolution by ransacking the US embassy at Tehran (hostages crisis), then bombed the US embassy at Beirut and the Israeli embassy at BuenosAires?

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

8 years

This is actually great

Judd Legum

@JuddLegum

8 years

Pretty sure he's unqualified to be Energy Secretary but I'm all-in for a Franken/Perry buddy comedy on TBS

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

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@amirtibon גם אפרת כץ, בת כיתה שלי מכפר מנחם ותושבת ניר עוז, שנהרגה ב7 באוקטובר, היתה בצפית. אחוז הקיבוצניקים בין חללי המלחמה מראה עד כמה לא נס ליחם כגורם משמעותי בחיי המדינה

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6 years

@HillelNeuer @UNRWA Oh, those Zio-Trumpians of.. wait, Switzerland?

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@bennyavni

7 months

@hahussain @mdubowitz Bonus: none of this tweet’s assertions are true: mostly she wasn’t the “only judge.” In fact, the entire court rejected SAfr’s demand for a temporary measure to stop Israel. Also, “genocide” is yet to be proven

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

2 years

.⁦ @NewYorkSun ⁩ my Wednesday column: Despite Tehran’s frustrations with China, Beijing needs to keep its allies close. Hence a 3-day state visit, designed by Xi to make Raisi “feel special”

Iran’s Raisi Frustrated as Beijing Plays a Double Game

Chairman Xi is trying to make the embattled Islamic Republic leader ‘feel special’ even as the Chinese pursue inroads with Saudi Arabia and the United…

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

6 years

@mdubowitz @DanielBShapiro @McFaul Cooperating with Putin on this is like asking OJ to find the “real killer”

Trump and Putin’s OJ-like search for the 'real' meddling culprits

When did OJ become POTUS? President Trump told a Helsinki press conference Monday that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has an “interesting idea” about resolving questions on election meddling in...

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

7 months

Bernie the “Squadfather”. Brilliant @SethAMandel

Commentary Magazine

@Commentary

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Instead of getting defensive, Bibi has been keeping his cool, @SethAMandel observes. Netanyahu Isn’t Taking the Bait 👉 #ElizabethWarren #Hamas #Israel #JoeBiden #BenjaminNetanyahu #BernieSanders #AntonyBlinken

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

3 years

@AlinejadMasih is safe now, but this case shows her simple message — let women free their hair from forced hijab — threatens an Iranian regime that fears all freedoms. America should never enter deals with them

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Benny Avni

@bennyavni

6 years

. @nypost my column tomorrow: The Islamic Republic is just starting to feel the pain and, yes, Washington has a coherent Iran strategy

Iran has only begun to feel the pain of Trump's sanctions

As the Iranian regime reels under the strain of renewed sanctions, the Trump administration is already preparing the next phase. We see too little of it in our press, but Iranians are increasingly...

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