Epstein Secrets

. Insider (5/25, Pickrell, 2.74M) reports Israel's Iron Dome accidentally "shot down an Israeli military drone during recent fighting with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces told local media." An IDF spokesperson told Haartez, "As part of the round of fighting in Gaza and as part of the defens

of whether American warplanes...will provide air support to Afghan forces." The Times quotes Michele A. Flournoy, a former DOD undersecretary during the Obama Administration, as saying "'Withdrawing forces is actually a really delicate kind of operation that has risks associated with it.' ... 'There's a lot they have to

loomberg (5/20, Ramadan, Hodali, 3.57M) reports, "As cries of `Allah Akbar,' or `God is the greatest,' blasted from loudspeakers of mosques all over the Gaza Strip, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to celebrate" the announcement. However, Reuters (5/20, al- Mughrabi, Williams) reports that in the

cription Publication, 8.41M) looks at the long history between Biden and Netanyahu, particularly on Biden's role in smoothing over tensions between the Obama Administration and Israel during Biden's time as vice president. Politico (5/20, Leonard, 6.73M) reports Biden on Thursday "commended [Netanyahu] for drawing `the

. Insider (5/25, Pickrell, 2.74M) reports Israel's Iron Dome accidentally "shot down an Israeli military drone during recent fighting with Mamas in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces told local media." An IDF spokesperson told Haartez, "As part of the round of fighting in Gaza and as part of the defense

f whether American warplanes...will provide air support to Afghan forces." The Times quotes Michele A. Flournoy, a former DOD undersecretary during the Obama Administration, as saying "'Withdrawing forces is actually a really delicate kind of operation that has risks associated with it.' ... 'There's a lot they have to

, while Americans were going to the polls to elect a new president, EFTA_R1_00464356 EFTA01977740 Israeli infantry, tanks and bulldozers entered the Gaza Strip to dismantle an extensive tunnel network used by Hamas to smuggle in weapons. An already tenuous truce mediated by the Egyptian government of Hosn

port specifically recommended an additional defense site on the U.S. East Coast to augment interceptors in California and Alaska. Three years ago, the Obama Administration pulled the plug on a site in Poland and the Czech Republic, bending to Russian pressure. In its place, the White House decided to protect Europe f

nged since the direct peace talks Obama inaugurated in September 2010 collapsed within weeks. Israel's recent battle with the armed Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip left many predicting a wider fight in the future, as divisions deepened within the Palestinian and Israeli electorates over whether talks or war woul

) that contained the sanctions provisions despite having hinted earlier that he might veto the NDAA over a host of measures contained in the bill. If the Obama administration believes that ever-tougher sanctions will cause Iran to cave in at the talks, it's likely that they are badly misreading Iranian politics. For many o