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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.

‘We need to let Iran know if this war escalates, we’re coming after you’ Lindsey Graham tells JNS.
Israel’s response to Hamas’s massacre “is Israel’s decision to make. And I’m rooting for success,” said the upstart candidate, strongly suggesting a detwinning of American aid to and influence over Israeli policy.
Gov. Doug Burgum says Biden’s failure to link Iran to Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre “is like mentioning the subsidiary” but not talking “about the parent company that’s providing all the funding.”
Washington accused Moscow of operating in bad faith in a draft that didn’t recognize Israeli self-defense, and Russia and China demanded a ceasefire.
Péter Szijjártó told JNS that small countries like his play an important role in the current conflict.
“Shame on him,” Foreign Minister Cohen tells JNS in response to the secretary-general’s apparent blame of Israel for the terrorists’ massacre.
“When you give evil people, who want to murder you, the financial resources to do so, it does not work out well,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said of the new White House funding for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
“The council needs to get this right,” said U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
“I think it would be bad for Israel to have a man who has misled the Congress and the American people about the nuclear deal with Iran,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told JNS of Lew’s nomination.
Israel’s U.N. envoy: “The only ones shooting indiscriminate missiles at civilians are the Palestinians.”
The speed of the U.S. response to Israeli needs reflects a “sense of urgency across not just this building, but across the entire U.S. federal government, that’s coming from the president on down,” said a Pentagon official.
Moscow’s defeated draft resolution was intended to embarrass Washington by forcing it to veto a ceasefire, a diplomatic source tells JNS.