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“You can’t fight back something you don’t really understand,” Amir Epstein, director of Tafsik, one of the organizers, told JNS. “You can’t fight back something you don’t know.”
Some 40% of the public consumed more than three hours of news during the barrage.
Though Washington has suggested it will veto, Algeria plans to bring the Palestinian Authority’s application to a vote anyway on Thursday.
The United States “has almost never supported Israeli offensives—not in 1948, 1967 and 1982, nor against Hezbollah and Hamas,” Michael Oren tells JNS.
The threat comes as Israel’s War Cabinet is deciding on a “painful” retaliation to the Islamic Republic’s massive April 14 drone and missile attack.
The annual event, organized by the Colel Chabad charity group, was nearly canceled this year amid soaring tensions between Israel and Iran.
“It’s clear the Israelis are making a decision to act. We hope they do so in a way that does as little to escalate this as possible,” said visiting British FM David Cameron.
The IDF has withdrawn troops from southern Gaza, leaving only one brigade in the northern and central Strip.
Iran’s attempt to knock out an F-35 base and Hezbollah’s reported attack on an Iron Dome battery reiterate the need to diversify Israeli firepower
Blinken told a group of American Jewish leaders that a major conflict between Jerusalem and Tehran was not in the interests of the United States.
“If this ends up being true, this will be an absolute outrage and a scandal the likes of which I haven’t seen before,” David Friedman said.
Congress passed a resolution this week declaring that the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is antisemitic.
“It is impossible not to respond to such an attack,” IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said.
