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Robert Satloff

5 months

Special personal tweet: In a stellar performance, my son David lifts a perfect 9 for 9 (squat, bench, deadlift) and finishes 7th at National High School Powerlifting Championships in Baton Rouge, LA. Way to go, Diesel Dave!

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Robert Satloff

@robsatloff

2 months

Eleven (yes, 11) reporters on this @washingtonpost story and yet not one mention that the #Israeli hostages were evidently kept not in underground tunnels but in private #Palestinian homes in crowded, multi-story buildings, which would raise disturbing questions about broad

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2 years

Hello, @washingtonpost - is there a reason why you have not yet published a single front-page story (print edition) on the #Iran protests, the most consequential popular uprising against clerical rule in years & the most significant new factor in #MiddleEast politics today?

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4 years

I am breaking my usual all-business twitter to report this historic breakthrough by my 3 sons: After 4 days, a thousand attempts, a lot of swearing and a few scotches (by me), we did it! Not since Wilbur & Orville have brothers (with a little help from dad) had such a success!

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8 months

Last month's @washingtonpost article on #Palestinian mothers separated from their babies gnawed at me: could #Israel really be that nasty? So I did what 3 reporters should have done but didn't - I asked the Israelis. If they did what I did, they would have written a very

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2 years

Hey, @washingtonpost - it’s 3-plus weeks into the most serious popular revolt against mullah rule in #Iran since 1979 and these amazingly brave women and men have still not earned a single front-page story. If you don’t take it seriously, why should the #Biden Administration?

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5 months

These #Palestinian poll results (from March 2024) tell a depressing story: - 71% say 10/7 attacks were "correct" - 91% say #Hamas committed no war crimes in this conflict - 59% say Hamas should control #Gaza after the war is over - Hamas has double the popular support of #Fatah ,

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6 years

Question for @nytimes : concern for fate of @JKhashoggi notwithstanding, by what rationale are you suspending tourism to #SaudiArabia but proudly advertising money-making "Journey" tours to #Iran , world's leading sponsor of terrorism?

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3 months

We are witnessing what could be a terribly sad moment in US #MiddleEast policy - a moment that cheers #America ’s adversaries and frightens #America ’s friends. I have praised @joebiden as having proven himself since 10/7 the most pro- #Israel president in US history. However, the

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11 months

Sadly, official #Arab responses to today's terrorist onslaught in #Israel are mostly weak & evasive. From my reading, only #Morocco had specific "condemnation" of attack on civilians. None mentions #Hamas by name; none labels purposeful killing of innocents as "terrorism." 1/4

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Robert Satloff

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9 months

Sadly, tendentious media reporting from the #Hamas - #Israel war has grown commonplace but I have never seen a story quite like the @washingtonpost piece headlined “Israel’s war with Hamas separates Palestinian babies from their mothers.” 1/14

Israel’s war with Hamas separates Palestinian babies from their mothers

A war that has claimed the lives of more than 11,000 Gazans and erased entire families has also parted newborns from their parents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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2 years

Hey, @washingtonpost editors: after more than a month of nationwide protests in #Iran that "stunned" @JoeBiden & compelled @BarackObama to admit a "mistake" in not supporting activists in 2009, don't you think it's overdue to give this seismic event even one front-page story?

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Robert Satloff

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2 years

After 40+ years of mullah rule, the people of #Iran are rising up to reclaim their freedom and their country. I am so proud to have provided a platform for @AlinejadMasih to explain why every American should care. @WashInstitute #MahsaAmini

Masih Alinejad 🏳️

@AlinejadMasih

2 years

Why should Americans care about the murder of #MahsaAmini and Iranian people’s fight against Islamic regime? Thanks to @robsatloff and @washingtoninst for asking this important question. Please listen to my address.

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Robert Satloff

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4 years

I kept a secret to #Jordan ’s #KingHussein for a quarter-century. Now, with his son #KingAbdullah at the height of his popularity, leading the fight against #coronavirus , it’s time to tell this story. ⁦ @aminterest ⁩

Why King Abdullah Is King - The American Interest

His father, King Hussein, had always wanted it that way, he just never told anybody. Except me.

www.the-american-interest.com

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10 months

It is clear #Israel is near an operational decision to proceed w/a ground incursion into #Gaza , as bombing alone cannot succeed in achieving its war aims - nor will the patience of some of #Israel ’s friends likely stretch far enough to allow bombing to get close to the goal. 1/14

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4 months

It takes a lot of effort to devote more than 4,000 words to #Gaza and never once mention the word "hostages," whose plight animates much of what #Israel is doing in the war against #Hamas . Five of these are Americans, who were dragged across international borders by terrorist

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2 years

A night to remember: Tonight, hundreds of friends and supporters of ⁦⁦⁦ @WashInstitute ⁩ packed a NYC ballroom to honor brave #Iranian - #American freedom-fighter @AlinejadMasih with our highest honor, the #ScholarStatesmanAward . #WomanLifeFreedom

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6 months

“Allegedly” “Apparently” “Reportedly” There isn’t a single fact - not a name, not a place, not a detail - in this statement. Shame on the UN’s ⁦ @OHCHR_Palestine ⁩ for legitimizing a transparent effort to blur #Hamas ’ horrific use of sexual violence.

Israel/oPt: UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and...

GENEVA (19 February 2024) – UN experts* today expressed alarm over credible allegations of egregious human rights violations to which Palestinian women and girls continue to be subjected in the Gaza...

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3 years

For unpardonable crime of committing truth - calling #Israeli airstrikes “precise,” therefore not indiscriminate - ⁦ @UNRWA ⁩ #Gaza ⁩ director gets recalled/replaced. What are chances we’ll ever hear another truthful word from occupant of that job?

UN Gaza relief chief called in by bosses after comments over Israeli air strikes

The Gaza director of the U.N. agency that deals with Palestinian refugees has been called in for consultation with his bosses in Jerusalem after angering Palestinians with comments they said favoured...

www.reuters.com

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Robert Satloff

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5 months

No one in the world has looked at #Gaza fatality statistics as closely as my ⁦ @WashInstitute ⁩ colleague ⁦ @GabrielEpsteinX ⁩. When he says they are “completely unreliable,” no media outlet or government official should quote them ever again.

Gaza Fatality Data Has Become Completely Unreliable

Given the discrepancies in official Palestinian counts and their growing reliance on questionable data from media reports, the credibility gaps revealed by a previous Washington Institute study have...

www.washingtoninstitute.org

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Robert Satloff

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3 years

In case you missed this over the holiday, here’s my detailed critique of the ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ front-page report on children killed in the #Hamas - #Israel conflict. What was wrong with it? Sadly, quite a lot. ⁦ @TimesofIsrael ⁩

What’s wrong with the NY Times’ report on children’s deaths? So much.

It's a one-sided article that obscured whether Hamas was an information source, which deaths were caused by 'friendly fire,' and why Israel used force at all

blogs.timesofisrael.com

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3 months

RIP, @IntlCrimCourt - 2003-2024.

Int'l Criminal Court

@IntlCrimCourt

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#ICC Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC announces applications for arrest warrants in relation to Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant in the context of the situation in the State of #Palestine ⤵️

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Robert Satloff

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4 months

Pick your word, @unrwa - this is a falsehood. An untruth. A lie. One doesn’t need a PhD in statistics to see through this PR stunt. 1 child killed every 10 minutes equals 6 per hour and 144 per day - a rate that amounts to a total of 28,512 over the 198 days since October 7.

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@UNRWA

4 months

A child is killed every 10 minutes in the📍 #GazaStrip A deplorable number of children have also been injured amid intense and often indiscriminate attacks. An immediate #Ceasefire is the last hope remaining.

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2 months

W/great respect to US diplomats, appealing to #Sinwar ’s humanitarian instincts will have no impact. Far better to make clear that failure to endorse ceasefire, without further haggling, will result in accelerated delivery of U.S. weapons to #Israel , offer for U.S. Corps of

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4 years

Personal note: today, in frigid Providence cold, we bury my wonderful mom, Beverly Granoff Satloff, who passed away Thursday (my birthday) at the age of 92. May her memory be for a blessing, as she was always to her family.

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@robsatloff

3 years

IMPORTANT: a remarkable event, organized by @PeaceComCenter , just concluded in Erbil: 312 #Iraqis , from #Sunni sheikhs to #Shiite leaders to civil society activists, gathered to call for peace w/ #Israel , to join #AbrahamAccords & to reconcile w/dispossessed #Jewish diaspora. 1/3

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Robert Satloff

@robsatloff

5 years

What an ingenious plan we have! Erase the most successful US deployment in years - great strategic benefit, true burden sharing w/local partners & almost zero US battlefield casualties - and replace it with #Russian troops on #NATO border. Brilliant!

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5 years

A govt that enjoys billions of congressionally-approved aid each year - and has aspirations for a mutual defense treaty - should consider the huge potential downside of barring congresspeople, regardless of how objectionable their views may be. #Israel

Trump: Israel weak if it lets Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib into country

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely confirmed that Israel will not allow the congresswomen from entering Israel.

www.jpost.com

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Robert Satloff

@robsatloff

3 years

What was wrong with the ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ front-page report on children's deaths in the #Hamas - #Israel conflict? Here’s my comprehensive critique. ⁦ @TimesofIsrael ⁩

What’s wrong with the NY Times’ report on children’s deaths? So much.

It's a one-sided article that obscured whether Hamas was an information source, which deaths were caused by 'friendly fire,' and why Israel used force at all

blogs.timesofisrael.com

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4 months

Before we all strategize next steps, let’s take a moment to marvel at what happened last night. In one of the worst mistakes in the history of the Islamic Republic, #Iran decided to break 40+ years of precedent and attack #Israel directly, sending hundreds of drones, cruise and

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Robert Satloff

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2 years

Since my earlier tweet on #IranProtests , I have been asked what the #Biden administration should do that would be constructive and supportive of the protestors, who may have been triggered by food prices but whose anger is much deeper and more profound. Here are 3 ideas: 1/5

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19 days

Is there an analytically sound, statistically solid way to measure how flawed @washingtonpost 's #Gaza war coverage has been? Yes. Since Oct 7, I have been very critical of the Post's Gaza reportage. As a check on my own possible bias, I came up with a way to compare the Post's

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5 years

In a rare exception to my “business only” twitter feed, my wife Jennie and I are delighted to congratulate our oldest son Benji on graduating from #Duke yesterday. What a happy day!

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Robert Satloff

@robsatloff

3 years

New wind blowing across #MiddleEast ? This year, #Holocaust remembrance events were in #Morocco , #Egypt , #Bahrain , #Dubai and #AbuDhabi . As the saying goes, next year in …. #Muscat ? #Amman ? #Riyadh ?

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1 year

The resumption of #Saudi - #Iran relations has triggered what I believe to be exaggerated reaction about #China ’s emergence as a #MiddleEast powerbroker and a strategic shift of #Riyadh away from its traditional partners. 1/17

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Robert Satloff

@robsatloff

4 years

As one of my sons said after we hit 100k views, who’d have imagined that - after 35 years of books, scholarship, policy analysis, a documentary film & a TV show - my most celebrated achievement was helping my boys create this Rube Goldberg contraption! #Lifeundercorona

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Robert Satloff

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8 months

Why is it taking so long for the @washingtonpost to apologize for and correct a November 17 front-page story whose multiple egregious errors all point to an anti- #Israel bias? Over the past two weeks, I have presented conclusive evidence that a story claiming that #Palestinian

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10 months

Namely, Oct 7 = the 1st successful effort by an #Arab force to retake territory, even briefly, inside pre-67 #Israel . It is as if Al-Qaeda took control of Manhattan on 9/11 rather than hit the Twin Towers, killing thousands and forcing US army to fight to retake the island. 7/14

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8 years

Interesting that @johnkerry just passed over inconvenient fact that #Arabs and #Palestinians rejected partition resolution (181).

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Robert Satloff

@robsatloff

5 years

I have read the entire #Israel - #Palestinian peace plan and my advice to revelers is not to pop the champagne anytime soon -- "peace" is not around the corner. Here's a quick assessment. 1/11

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3 months

Nearly three months before her abrupt departure yesterday from @washingtonpost , I had my one encounter with Executive Editor @SallyBuzbee . That was when she personally vouched for the accuracy of an article about the tragic deaths and subsequent discovery of premature

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@robsatloff

10 months

Other ideas are percolating - such as calls to impose a ceasefire on #Israel and achieve “calm.” In my view, these ideas fail to appreciate the enormity of what happened on Oct 7, not just in its barbarity but in its strategic significance. 6/14

Essay | The Goal for U.S. Diplomacy With Israel: First Calm, Then Peace

With dangers rising across the Middle East, America needs a two-phase effort to stabilize the conflict in Gaza and resolve core Israeli-Palestinian issues.

www.wsj.com

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4 years

In less than 36 hours, we will learn whether #Israel is facing the most serious constitutional crisis in its history - with a speaker of #Knesset and a caretaker government, despite lacking a parliamentary majority, refuses a direct Supreme Court order.

Israel’s democratic crisis deepens

The High Court's position that Speaker Edelstein must put his job up for a vote appeared to have stalled what many saw as an attempted coup by Likud. Relief may prove premature

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@robsatloff

5 years

In DC, the #Iran story may be that #Trump opted for restraint over belligerence; in #Tehran and around the #MiddleEast , the story is that the US leader who imposed ‘maximum pressure’ is now virtually begging @khamenei_ir to talk with him.

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2 years

@AlinejadMasih @khamenei_ir Congratulations to @AlinejadMasih for earning a direct attack by @khamenei_ir - just another reason I and my colleagues will be proud to honor her next month w/ @WashInstitute ’s 2022 #ScholarStatesman Award.

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Robert Satloff

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5 years

A warm and heartfelt thank you to @TheEconomist for memorializing my remarkable wife so beautifully. She would have loved this. "Call of the ages: Obituary: Jennie Litvack died on June 27th"

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10 months

In sum, it would be a mistake to apply pre-Oct 7 rules - eg the pursuit of an elusive, false calm - to the post-Oct 7 reality. Such well-meaning efforts stand a good chance of widening/worsening conflict, not lessening the pain of the long-suffering people of this region. 14/14

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4 months

I hope @SecBlinken succeeds in securing a hostage/prisoners/ceasefire deal but if #Hamas rejects this offer as it has done all offers for months, one doesn't need to be a Clausewitz to understand why -- there is simply not enough pressure on Hamas to change course, accept a deal

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@robsatloff

10 months

Indeed, counterintuitive as it may be, the region-wide perception of #Israel ’s strength has been the prerequisite of all peacemaking since 1973, a fact no one who calls for an eventual return to peace diplomacy should forget. 5/14

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30 days

Only in the bizarre @UN system... How could the @CIJ_ICJ have as chief judge in the case against #Israel a longtime diplomat from #Lebanon , the #Hezbollah -dominated country at war with the Jewish state? Isn't that like having a Russian judge rule on case involving Ukraine?

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3 months

This is vindication for experts like my @WashInstitute colleague @GabrielEpsteinX , who have been arguing for months that the #Hamas Ministry of Health numbers - robotically repeated by U.N. agencies, NGOs and gullible, lazy media - were statistically false and politically

The Jerusalem Post

@Jerusalem_Post

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The UN has revised its estimates, halving the previously reported number of women and children killed in Gaza, with a disclaimer noting the inability to verify casualty figures independently.

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9 months

Editors still on Thanksgiving holiday? Here is the latest in a series of unprofessional editorial decisions by ⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩ - today’s front-page headline, equating #Israeli hostages and #Palestinian security prisoners as “captives”

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5 months

What's outrageously misleading about this seemingly scientific @washingtonpost story -- lots of graphs, charts and statistics -- about aid flows into #Gaza is that there is the barest mention that there is a war going on, with the government of the aggressor ( #Hamas ) preferring

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@robsatloff

5 years

For all those who (mistakenly) believe #Iraq is a lost cause and already an #Iranian vassal state, please check this hash-tag of patriotic #Iraqis who reject their parliament’s vote to expel US troops. #parliament_does_not_represent_iraqis

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4 months

ICYMI, my hometown newspaper -- @washingtonpost -- published a massive article Tuesday that provided a high-tech, moment-by-moment drama of the tragic deaths of a family of #Gaza civilians, with a special focus on the horrible story of 6-year-old #HindRajab . Enormous sums — the

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@robsatloff

10 months

This is huge - a true inflection point, as @POTUS termed it. USG needs to appreciate that absence of decisive action by #Israel now will invite more attempts of this sort in the future - more sophisticated, more audacious, more lethal. 8/14

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8 months

Success! Well, at least partial success. Late this afternoon, @washingtonpost finally published an “editor’s note” & an updated version of the flawed Nov 17 article on #Palestinian mothers separated from their newborn infants because of the #Israel - #Hamas war.

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8 years

If @johnkerry just affirmed many settlers/settlements will stay in #Israel forever, why did US just let pass UNSCR declaring them illegal?

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4 months

“These Americans are not just ‘wrongfully detained.’ These Americans were in their beds, or at a concert venue of a friendly country. They were attacked. They were kidnapped. They were dragged across international borders. They have been kept for more than 200 days in the most

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6 years

@nytimesworld This is really obscene - as if #Hezbollah ’s Xmas cheer means anything to the thousands of innocents - #Americans , #Lebanese , #Israelis , #Syrian #Sunni #Muslims , and others - murdered by this bloodthirsty gang over the years.

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2 years

I never thought I would see this: standing-room-only crowd of #Egyptians gather at historic Adli Synagogue in #Cairo , spellbound as 92-year-old #Auschwitz survivor #RuthCohen tells her gripping story. @HolocaustMuseum #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay

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10 months

Let's understand what is going on: #Hamas is not just thanking its sponsor; facing decapitation by #Israel , Hamas has every interest to enlarge the circle of conflict to deflect #Israeli retaliation and entice #Israel to fight a full regional war.

Sarah Raviani

@sarahraviani

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Spokesperson of Izzuddin Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaidah: “We thank the Islamic Republic of Iran who provided us with weapons, money and other equipment! He gave us missiles to destroy Zionist fortresses, and helped us with standard anti-tank missiles!”

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3 years

By blurring the distinction between #Israel ’s nuclear deterrent and #Iran ’s exterminationist nuclear project, I don’t think I’m alone in wondering whether ⁦ @PeterBeinart ⁩ prefers a nuclear-free #MiddleEast or an Israel-free MiddleEast.

Opinion | America Needs to Start Telling the Truth About Israel’s Nukes (Published 2021)

This charade doesn’t leave anyone safer. It’s gone on long enough.

www.nytimes.com

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10 months

In this situation, deterring an escalation - ie on the northern front - is a key US role and the #Biden admin should be applauded for its robust efforts to convince #Iran it would be a painful mistake to unleash #Hezbollah ’s arsenal of rockets/missiles on #Israel . 9/14

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3 years

Maintaining US recognition of #Morocco ’s sovereignty in the #Sahara is the right decision; contrary to misplaced criticism, it does not contradict US support for international mediation and peacemaking. @SecBlinken

Biden won't reverse Trump's Western Sahara move, U.S. tells Morocco

Trump recognized the disputed territory as part of Morocco.

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10 months

Number 3 is critical - re-establishing #Israel ’s deterrence, with all its costs, is necessary to prevent both a much bloodier conflict in the future and to open possibilities for a return to diplomacy between #Israelis , #Palestinians and #Arab states. 4/14

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4 years

If you wanted to harm US universities, lose jobs and shrink exports, exacerbate tensions w/the most pro- #American segment of the global elite and disinvest in future influencers around the world, this would be an excellent policy initiative.

Foreign students must leave US if classes go online, according to new federal rules - The Boston...

International students will be forced to leave the United States or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall, under new guidelines issued Monday by federal...

www.bostonglobe.com

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5 years

Call it gutsy, call it risky, call it reckless - next to killing @khamenei_ir himself, targeting #Suleimani is swiftest, most direct way to counter #Iran strategy of rising regional influence across #Mideast and protect US/allied forces/assets, so far with minimal casualties. 1/3

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- To guarantee #Gaza cannot be a platform for attacks in the future. - To restore the confidence of the Israeli people that its government and army can provide for security. - To reestablish #Israel ’s deterrent power in the eyes of friends & adversaries in the Middle East. 3/14

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6 years

I am delighted to break my “no personal tweets” rule to wish a huge congratulations to my son William, president of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase HS class of 2018, who graduated today. We are so proud of you! @Barons2018

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Don’t be fooled by the high-profile diplomatic push to support ⁦ @UNRWA ⁩. As its former general-counsel #JamesLindsay argues here, the real options are “systemic reform” (UNRWA has always opposed) and “dissolution”. ⁦ @WashInstitute ⁩

Options for UNRWA: From Systemic Reform to Dissolution

Israeli reports of terrorist involvement by personnel have cast the agency in an especially harsh light.

www.washingtoninstitute.org

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3 years

On behalf of ⁦ @WashInstitute ⁩, I am delighted to congratulate ⁦ @MohamedBinZayed , who will receive ⁩our 2021 #ScholarStatesmanAward , in recognition of his bold leadership on peace w/ #Israel and expansion of religious tolerance within the #UAE .

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8 months

On Xmas eve, ironically, #Israeli authorities finally issued an official statement refuting the @washingtonpost Nov 17 front-page claim that #Palestinian mothers who had crossed from #Gaza to #Jerusalem to give birth were cruelly separated from their babies and forced to return

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5 years

Given the reach, anger, brutality, and bloody history of the mullah regime in #Iran , one needs to take seriously this vile, outrageous threat against friends at ⁦ @FDD ⁩.

Terror-sponsor Iran threatens Washington think tank with actions by ‘security apparatuses’ -...

Iran, an international sponsor of terrorism, has announced sanctions against a hawkish Washington think tank, threatening that any actions taken against it by "security apparatuses" will be "consid...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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10 months

Indeed, only by the regrettably costly route of ground operations - costly in terms of Israeli soldiers, #Palestinian civilians and perhaps the hostages - can #Israel likely meet the objective of ending #Hamas rule in #Gaza , which is needed to achieve these war aims: 2/14

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3 years

Facts are stubborn things: More and more reports are emerging - some from unlikely sources like @UNRWA - that #Israel 's precision strikes on #Gaza produced far less civilian damage than originally feared.

UNRWA director in Gaza apologizes after saying IDF strikes were 'precise'

"So yes, they didn't hit – with some exceptions – civilian targets, but the viciousness, ferocity of the strikes was heavily felt."

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On the editorial side, the paper of Woodward & Bernstein already suffered a blow to its free-speech credentials by buckling under pressure and pulling this cartoon of a mass-murdering terrorist drawn by a Pulitzer Prize-winner because it was “divisive” 3/14

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3) @POTUS - or at least @SecBlinken - should hold virtual meeting with families of jailed/injured/killed protestors to express support/condolences/commitment to universal rights and freedoms. 4/5

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Milestone events are happening at such breakneck speed that we err if we don’t sit back and recognize the enormity of this - mabrouk and mazel tov to the leaders and peoples of the #UAE and #Israel .

WAM English

@WAMNEWS_ENG

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Israeli Prime Minister arrives in UAE #WamNews

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Regrettably, once again, @nytimes issued a high-profile story -- this time, on video -- that is woefully under-sourced, with the effect of being a one-sided attack on #Israel operations in #Gaza last month. 1/7

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This is backward - the targeted killing of three terrorists responsible for thousands of innocents killed, including a key player in the murder of hundreds of American troops in Beirut, is not the reason for increased risk of regional war; rather, Iran's strategy of targeting

Fareed Zakaria

@FareedZakaria

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The assassinations of three leaders of Hamas & Hezbollah have pushed the Middle East to the brink of a larger war. Part 1 of my conversation with @wrightr & @vali_nasr about this dangerous moment:

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Robert Satloff

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6 years

At NY gala last night, @WashInstitute gave Scholar-Statesman Award to 2 outstanding intelligence professionals who served both D & R presidents, ex- @CIA Directors #GeorgeTenet & @GenMhayden . In so doing, we honor all in Intel Comm who inject truth/fact into foreign policymaking.

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5 years

What a joke! ⁦As the official who bore ultimate responsibility for failing to shut down #Iranian air space to civilian airliners, @HassanRouhani ⁩ should be the 1st person indicted by “special court” he called for. The people of #Iran deserve better.

Iran says arrests made after downing of Ukrainian plane that killed 176 on board

President Hassan Rouhani called for a special court to investigate, saying the “the world is going to watch this trial.”

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Robert Satloff

@robsatloff

2 years

2) @POTUS should task #NSC to coordinate all-of-government support to help Iranians access the internet, circumventing #Iran ’s draconian restrictions. This should include outreach to tech companies to assist/support online access for people of #Iran . 3/5

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10 months

A frequent cautionary note concerns the question of “how does this end?” - indeed, along with my @WashInstitute colleagues @AmbDennisRoss & @DavidMakovsky , I wrote an essay outlining plans for a #Palestinian / #Arab -led post- #Hamas #Gaza 10/14

Israel’s War Aims and the Principles of a Post-Hamas Administration in Gaza

It’s not too early to think about the “day after” the war—even preliminary planning to create an interim administration will help clarify objectives for Israel’s leaders, sustain U.S. support,...

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11 months

No one expects #Arab leaders to cheer a tough #Israeli response to #Hamas but many - #Saudis , #Emiratis , #Jordanians , #Egyptians - will be targeted by the same evil forces that attacked today. USG should urge united Arab-Israel front against this barbaric terrorism. 4/4

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Strange story indeed - in a war filled w/death, @washingtonpost took a fundamentally good news story about premature babies from #Gaza cared for by compassionate people across enemy lines and turned it into a horror story, w/diabolical #Israelis lurking overhead. 12/14

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9 months

Indeed, it seems the reporters could have written a wholly different story - “Despite war, #Gazan babies safe & protected in #Israeli and #WestBank hospitals” - but they opted to focus on the alleged distress of the mothers instead of the well-being of the babies. 6/14

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5 years

Some perspective: these three tragic casualties in a US #Army training mission were about equal to the total number of US deaths in northeast #Syria throughout entire US deployment. Does anyone suggest we should end “endless training”?

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@robsatloff

2 years

Kudos to @POTUS on a #MiddleEast trip that achieved important objectives and, despite all the drama, proceeded about as well as one could have expected (and certainly hoped). 1/12

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Robert Satloff

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10 months

Advice to our #Israeli friends: Antisemites are a lost cause. A clear message + sharp distinction btw #Hamas terrorists v #Gaza civilians can win over millions who want a reason to give you benefit of the doubt. @AmbDennisRoss and yours truly in @thehill

How Israel can win the other Gaza battlefield: public opinion

We urge Israel to focus on three themes that if repeated, every day, would improve Israel’s information campaign and bring it up to the level of its battlefield prowess.

thehill.com

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8 years

Looking over @johnkerry speech, absence of any self-criticism is stunning, as though US #Mideast policy has been brilliant past 8 years.

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4 years

I am proud to join my friend Shaykh Muhammad al-Issa, SecGen of @MWLOrg_en and a leader who walks the walk, not just talks the talk, about tolerance. It is now more important than ever to stand united against those who preach hate. #ToleranceDay

Muslim World League

@MWLOrg_en

4 years

Today is #UN International Day for #Tolerance . The #MuslimWorldLeague has made it our sacred mission to promote tolerance and today, we share this joint message from religious leaders around the world calling for mutual respect & understanding. #ToleranceDay

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Amazing how myopic & masochistic is the #Palestinian leadership. Instead of taking advantage of others’ desire for closer ties w/ #Israel to gain benefits for themselves, they make every move zero-sum, which means they will get zero - or even less. So sad.

Palestinians: We'll sever ties with nations that open a Jerusalem embassy

Trump has pushed for other countries to relocate their embassies to Jerusalem, and was the person who announced the Serbian and Kosovo decision.

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Robert Satloff

@robsatloff

2 years

1) @WhiteHouse should announce that, in accordance with longstanding policy, US pursuit of a new nuclear deal in no way constricts our right and duty to speak out in support of #Iranians exercising the universal right of free speech and assembly. 2/5

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6 years

Times are changin’ ... On #HolocaustRemembranceDay , head of #MuslimWorldLeague (former #Saudi justice minister) “urges all #Muslims to learn #Holocaust history, to visit memorials/museums to this horrific event & to teach its lessons to their children.”

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2 months

To paraphrase the proverbial words of Sen. Howard Baker during Watergate, what did @AlJazeera know and when did they know it? And let’s add this question - which mainstream U.S. media platform will report this first? #Hamas #Gaza #hostages

OSINTdefender

@sentdefender

2 months

One of the Israeli Hostages that was Rescued yesterday during the Joint-Operation in Central Gaza, 26-Year-Old Noa Argamani was being held Captive in the Home of Abdallah Aljamal, a Photojournalist and Writer/Editor for both Al-Jazeera and the Palestinian Chronicle. During the

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Breaking news: I was honored to participate today in a pioneering event in #Cairo commemorating UN-authorized International #HolocaustRemembranceDay ( #IHRD ), co-sponsored by the @USEmbassyCairo & @HolocaustMuseum . Thank you, #Egypt , for your warm hospitality. 1/5

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With great sadness, the Trustees, Fellows and Staff of @WashInstitute send their deepest condolences to the family of Ambassador @Martin_Indyk -- the organization's founding executive director -- who passed away today.

Washington Institute Mourns Passing of Founding Executive Director Martin Indyk

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6 months

Before the hoped-for "temporary ceasefire" in #Gaza opens the door for journalists to fan across the Strip, there is an important piece of unfinished business from the last pause. Remember the sensational @washingtonpost story that featured a #Palestinian nurse wrestling with the

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3 years

In historical terms, this #Iraq conference was perhaps the most significant citizen-inspired, people-to-people act of peacemaking in history. Let’s salute these brave #Iraqis , who now return to their homes across the country to face #Iran -backed militias and other extremists. 2/3

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