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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.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy ordered state flags flown at half-mast to honor all the victims of the attacks, including residents of the state who are confirmed dead.
The Republican Florida senator talked about Hamas, Iran and support for Israel in Congress and across the nation in an exclusive interview with JNS.
“‘Never Again,’ my friends, is now,” said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
“The brutality that has been on display over the last few days is not only horrific and painful, it is also personal,” said the U.S. principal deputy national security adviser.
While the terror supporters screamed, “Settlers, settlers, go back home. Palestine is ours alone!” Israel backers answered “From the river to sea, Palestine will never be!”
“This most recent violence does not come in a vacuum,” claimed António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general. “The reality is that it grows out of a long-standing conflict, with a 56-year long occupation and no political end in sight.”
“What’s important now is the international community show its solidarity with Israel. We have Israel’s back fully,” said U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood.
The Israeli Artists Project hopes that the Stav Festival, which affords “a picture of Israeli culture outside the lens of politics and religion,” will become an annual event.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield took aim at Palestinian Authority leader, calling his recent comments “blatantly antisemitic,” which “wrongly maligned the Jewish people and distorted the Holocaust.”
Iran, domestic antisemitism, Holocaust restitution and advancing the Abraham Accords were on the table in high-level meetings with world leaders.
The Saudi foreign minister made no direct mention of Israel or normalization in his UNGA speech; the American Jewish reaction to Netanyahu’s address was also scant.
The Israeli, Indian, Emerati and U.S. group is becoming more of a concrete entity, Asher Fredman, director for Israel at the Abraham Accords Peace Institute, told JNS.