🚨🇮🇱 ISRAELI POLLS OPEN: NETANYAHU FIGHTS TO STAY IN POWER
Polls have opened across Israel, with ~7.3 MILLION eligible voters deciding on the 26th Knesset.
The latest surveys suggest a razor-thin contest between Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc and an opposition alliance led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot.
Neither camp is expected to win the 61 seats required to govern outright, raising the prospect of another coalition stalemate.
We’ll keep you posted as this story develops…
Source: Times of Israel, The Independent / Writer: Marie
“I’m still unlearning Ziónism, and I will tell you how.
I saw a bustling Palestinian city in the year 1910, even though I was told that Isræl was ‘a land without a people for a people without a land.’”
Katherine Bogen, speaking about her experience as a Jéwish woman becoming anti-Ziónist and leaving the Chabad-Lubavitch cult.
Chabad was exposed in the Epstein Files for money laundering, and Ben Shapiro is a proud, high-level member of Chabad.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 Newly released FBI files show that in 1948 Americans were secretly shipping explosives and warplanes to Israel against US law, and the man who founded AIPAC registering as an Israeli foreign agent
Here's why that matters in plain terms... In 1947 the US government banned arms shipments to Palestine. People shipped them anyway.
The FBI arrested four men when mislabeled explosives turned up on a Jersey City pier, and another group smuggled 30 aircraft out of Florida and got fined for it; one of those men later built Israel's aircraft industry and got a pardon from Bill Clinton.
The files also describe the ADL, the group that says it fights antisemitism, getting hold of private Arab League papers in New York through a reporter.
The biggest detail is a name: Isaiah Kenen. In 1951 he told the Justice Department his first client would be the Israeli government and agreed to register as a foreign agent, which is the legal requirement for anyone working for a foreign country inside the US.
Kenen then founded AIPAC, the most powerful pro-Israel group in Washington, which has never registered that way.
It says it represents Americans, not Israel.
So why does a 75-year-old archive land now? Because AIPAC changed its money rules last week to make its donations harder to trace, because the ADL's own chief brags about 40 analysts watching Americans who protest the war, and because Congress is voting right now on a bill to share more US intelligence with Israel.
The 1951 government made Kenen sign a form saying who he worked for. Why hasn't the government asked the question since?
Source: MilitaryCom / Writer: Daniel
I have spent my life serving this country, and I still believe the American people are our greatest strength. But we cannot afford to sit back and assume someone else will secure our future.
There is too much at stake for complacency. Take your frustrations, your concerns, and your love of country to the ballot box. I voted early. Make your plan and follow through.
America is worth fighting for.
When people are getting kicked out of Trump rallies for ‘America First’ hats, it’s safe to say the MAGA movement is officially DEAD.
MIGA is the captain now.
BREAKING: MN official Melanie Hazelip just went on Somali TV explaining how Somalis could vote without IDs
They can even register same-day using a STATE ID FROM MINNESOTA
MN famously gives IDs to non-citizens
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🇮🇱🇮🇷 Netanyahu spent weeks pushing for a strike on Iran before Tuesday's vote, his army chief refused, and he then pushed for a smaller "action" the general feared would bait Iran into attacking Israel
Six sources told the Times the chief of staff found no urgent military need and said so, which strips the prime minister of the "security" cover for the timing.
A former defense minister has asked the attorney general to investigate it as treason.
Iranian sources say Israeli jets actually crossed into Iran's airspace over the weekend and Tehran chose not to shoot, because it read the flights as a trap to start the war before Trump had decided to join it.
Netanyahu's closing pitch tells you how it's going: an AI image of a mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv, a warning that American military aid is ending, and a suggestion that Israel may need cryptocurrency to survive banking sanctions, which the Bank of Israel publicly shot down.
He is campaigning as the man who can save Israel from a world that's turned on it, while the generals who'd fight his war say the world turning IS THE POINT.
If he loses, his last lever is the one the Times' sources are warning about: a strike after the vote that blocks any rival from forming a government and forces a unity cabinet with him in it.
Israelis get one chance Tuesday to take that lever away.
Source: New York Times / Writer: Daniel