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Benjamin Weinthal

Benjamin Weinthal is a Jerusalem-based journalist who covers the Middle East and is a writing fellow at the Middle East Forum. Follow Benjamin on Twitter @BenWeinthal.

Gerhard Ulrich compared Israel’s security barrier, built to keep terrorists out, to the now-defunct Berlin Wall, built to keep East Germans in.
‘It took Russian use of Iranian drones in Ukraine to prompt the Europeans and Biden to realize that the mullahs are not cuddly, the Middle East Forum’s Daniel Pipes says.
Terminology used by Bishop Gerhard Ulrich in a 2017 sermon “smacks of old Germanic antisemitic tropes and later Nazi antisemitism,” says Hebron’s Jewish community spokesman.
“Nobody in Tehran can be allowed to believe that they can get away with committing crimes,” Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said.
Outgoing administration slammed for concessions to Lebanon, praised for increased elimination of terrorists, shadow war against Iran.
“The people know if they go back to their homes, the regime will go after them,” exiled dissident tells JNS.
Sunni Arab states are hedging their bets as the U.S. tries to satisfy Iran, experts tell JNS.
An 80-page Swedish intelligence report reviewed by JNS claims Iran “conducts industrial espionage such as primarily aimed at Swedish high-tech industry and Swedish products that can be used in a nuclear weapons program.”