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Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim is a Washington-based correspondent for JNS, primarily covering the U.S. State Department and Congress. He is the senior U.S. correspondent at the Israel-based i24NEWS TV network.

“Disrupting the Iranian regime’s revenue is critical to helping curb its nuclear ambitions,” Scott Bessent, secretary of the U.S. Treasury, said.
The bipartisan bills seek to close the revolving door of former government officials lobbying on behalf of adversaries, including Iran.
“This legislation is unhelpful virtue-signaling,” a U.S. State Department spokesperson told JNS. “It does not serve the cause of peace in the Middle East.”
The U.S. president said during a meeting with the Saudi crown prince that “we’re going to have a deal” with Saudi Arabia for the coveted F-35 fighter jets, which could put Israel’s military edge in the region at risk.
“The demilitarization of Hamas is a basic condition of the peace agreement,” the Israeli envoy to the United Nations said. “There will be no future in Gaza as long as Hamas possesses weapons.”
Special rapporteur Reem Alsalem’s claims are “questionable at best,” the Dinah Project said.
Antisemitism at the global body “hides behind a veneer of commissions, rapporteurs, expert reports and biased agenda items and resolutions that disproportionately single out Israel year after year,” a U.S. diplomat said.
Rabbi Yosef Hamra plans to tell Congress that sanctions from the Assad era “obstruct the restoration of religious and cultural sites and impede efforts to preserve what remains of Syria’s Jewish heritage.”
“The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous coexistence,” per the draft.
“This was not a normal movie,” Lawrence Bender told JNS of “Red Alert,” which tells the stories of those who saved lives and those haunted by the lives they couldn’t save.
Prince Joachim visited Kesher Israel in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood for a talk about King Christian X’s efforts to save Danish Jews from the Nazis.
Phoebe Okowa, newly elected to the International Court of Justice, has also said that Israel’s entry into the United Nations was based on creating a Palestinian state.