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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.

“Everywhere around Israel, there is one actor that continues to pull the strings, though its proxies, and this is Iran,” says Albania’s envoy.
“A Jew needs to be strong, needs to be self-reliant,” Natan Levy told JNS, after a free seminar in a Brooklyn gym.
“People think about Hamas militarily, but you need to understand, they have $2.5 billion that’s been coming in to build underground terror tunnels and all these missiles,” entrepreneur Erel Margalit tells JNS.
A U.N. tweet about aid entering Gaza directly from Jordan was a mistake and has been corrected, says Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
“While initially it wasn’t smooth sailing, I have to commend the efforts of the DA’s office,” Joseph Borgen told JNS.
The Security Council “is correct in its call to make sure that the U.N. is required to streamline the transfer of humanitarian aid and make sure that it reaches its destination and not to Hamas,” says Israel’s foreign minister.
“She has a perverted morality, whereby she thinks that killing Israelis is always justified,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.
“You seem to be puzzled by this. What is the right to resist for the Palestinians? No one wants to live under oppression,” the special rapporteur told JNS.
“We believe today giving a little bit of space for additional diplomacy could yield positive results. And we are going to be optimistic and try and do that,” said UAE UN representative Lana Nusseibeh.
A vote on a Security Council resolution was pushed off for a second straight day at the Biden administration’s behest.
The terror organization tampered with apps that identify rockets, as well as sought to steal donations intended for Israeli victims and their families.
The official added that former Palestinian Authority security force members could help secure a post-Hamas Gaza, as Biden’s national security advisor visited the region.