FORMER long-time AIPAC staffer. Views are MY views. Likes and Reposts NOT Endorsements! See also my posts on Substack michaellewisonline.substack.โฆ
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#OnThisDay - JUNE 16โฆ.1974: First US Presidential Visit to Israel (Richard Nixon)...1963: Ben-Gurion Resigns as PM. Levi Eshkol his successor...2002: Security Fence Built in West Bank...1858: Lincoln's "House Divided...." open.substack.com/pub/michaeโฆ @NixonLibrary @nixonfoundation
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Flashback 60 Years today: @JTANews reporting "Shimon Peres Outlines Program for Stronger Link Between U.S. Jews and Israel"
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"This package specifically includes the bipartisan United States-Israel Framework for Upgraded Technologies, Unified Research, and Enhanced Security (FUTURES) Act that Budd led alongside Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), introduced in February 2026. This provision expands cooperation between the United States and Israel on critical and emerging defense technologies, directly benefiting U.S. national security here at home."
Thank you @SenTedBuddNC and @SenGillibrand for leading this effort to strengthen ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ defense partnerships.
BREAKING: Budd Secures Landmark NDAA Provisions to Strengthen Military Airpower and Enhance U.S. Counterterrorism Operations budd.senate.gov/2026/06/16/bโฆ
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CRAZY: The FBI just unsealed a complaint against a 19-year-old accused of helping plan Sunday's White House UFC attack.
Per the affidavit, he picked congressional targets by who took "pro-Israel" money. He named Marsha Blackburn because she'd "taken money from the Israel pro Israel lobby."
Then he sent photos of four more โ the entire West Virginia delegation โ that the FBI says "appear to have been taken from TrackAIPAC."
In other words, a terror cell used TrackAIPAC's content as raw material for a kill list.
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Let me be clear: Israel has been a model partner to the United States in this battle against Iranโs radical regime.
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Via @haaretzcom's @Bsamuels0 "How pro-Palestinian Groups Are Using AIPAC's Playbook in New York and Beyond" (I'd suggest it helps if you're prepared to denounce @AIPAC and then do it yourself - and your supporters don't mind!) haaretz.com/us-news/2026-06-โฆ
How strongly can progressives counter AIPAC's political influence by copying the pro-Israel group's playbook?
Next week's primaries in New York may offer the most important case study of the 2026 U.S. midterms cycle haaretz.com/us-news/2026-06-โฆ
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- @jewishinsider's @marcrod97 "FBI said it foiledย plot targeting AIPAC-backed politicians at White House UFC fight... FBI disrupted a plot that allegedly involved explosive-laden drones, a sniper team, and a plan to storm the White House" jewishinsider.com/2026/06/fbโฆ
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Various recent statements from @NJNarrative (the merged organization of Americans for Peace Now and AMEINU). From a self-declared Zionist organization; so much focus on pressuring/penalizing "Bad Israel." So little focus on "Good Israel" or "Arab threats." newjewishnarrative.org/stateโฆ
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#BernardLewis re pro-Arab motivations "...we may add one other - those who primary desire is not so much to help the Arabs as to hurt the JewsโฆI do not wish to suggest that all anti-Zionists or anti-Israelis are antisemitic - that would be palpably absurd; many however are."
"American Views of Israel" - Flashback 70 Years (May 1956): Bernard Lewis in the @latimes on varied pro-Israel and pro-Arab motivations in the US "...we may add one other - those who primary desire is not so much to help the Arabs as to hurt the Jews." #AntiZionism #Antisemitsm
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Will have more on this soon I hope, but my understanding is that AIPACโs UDP is telling the truth in this case. This in particular is not AIPAC money.
Patrick Dorton, a spokesperson for AIPACโs main super PAC, United Democracy Project, told Playbook it has โabsolutely no involvement in the Claire Valdez race. Weโve never heard of Real Fight NYC, so whatever sheโs saying is pure fiction.โ
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It is in Americaโs strategic interests for the Israeli and Lebanese governments to continue working together, as they agreed to do, to drive out Hezbollah - the terrorist army that has killed hundreds of U.S. troops and relentlessly targets Israeli civilians.
Israel has every right to take action to protect its families from the Iranian terror group that continuously hijacksย the prospects for peace, coexistence, and regional stability.
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- @FoxNews re the reported terrorist plot vs @WhiteHouse "A suspect told investigators the goal of the attack was to target โcapitalist elites,โ โbillionairesโ and politicians who received money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)"
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FBI and Law enforcement thwarted potential terror attack in the US
On June 10, FBI and our law enforcement partners became aware of a potential threat to the UFC America 250 event in Washington, D.C. involving individuals outside of the National Capital Region โ and thanks to the rapid action of this FBI, our partners, and the Department of Justice in a multi-state operation, multiple individuals are now in custody and allegedly planned attacks were stopped cold.
While the result represented the best of investigative work, it was also nothing out of the ordinary for this law enforcement team โ we are built to detect, respond to, and bring to justice those who threaten the lives of American citizens - particularly during large gatherings like the historic UFC 250 fight. Thatโs exactly what we did here. I want to thank our great agents and partners, this work remains ongoing and we will continue to update the public as permitted.ย
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We continue to encourage any American to report anything suspicious atย 1-800-CALL-FBIย orย tips.fbi.gov.โ
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January 1997: @IsraeliPM Benjamin @Netanyahu and PLO/PA's Yasser Arafat agree to the Hebron Agreement - Comments by @AmbDennisRoss youtube.com/watch?v=98fu27ZLโฆ #Hebron
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January 1997 Flashback: @IsraeliPM @Netanyahu and PLO/PA's Yasser Arafat sign the Hebron Agreement en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocโฆ
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Mr President/@POTUS,
Whoever sold you on this crazy scheme is not serving you well.
Regardless of President al-Sharaaโs progress at building a functioning post-Assad government, an attack on #Lebanon by the former jihadists who now run #Damascus would be a godsend to #Hezbollah, which would use it as a way to reclaim the false mantle of "resistance," in the process stirring horrible memories among the broader Lebanese population of the last #Syrian occupation of their country.
This sounds more like a false-flag operation on behalf of #NabihBerri, #NaimQassem and the #Iranian regime.
There is another way - embrace #Lebanon-#Israel negotiations, embolden the legitimate Lebanese government in #Beirut, and work with these partners to do the job that needs to be done.
Trump tells Netanyahu 'be more responsible with Lebanon, let Syria handle Hezbollah' at G7 euronews.com/my-europe/2026/โฆ
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The Irish celebrate Bloomsday this year under the stain of antisemitism.
June 16 is Bloomsdayโthe annual celebration of James Joyce's Ulysses, a novel in which an Irish Jew walks the streets of Dublin facing vile antisemitic abuse.
Joyce was writing about 1904, but over 100 years later, Jews are even more unwelcome in progressive Ireland.
Shame on Ireland.
#Bloomsday #antisemitism
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Flashback...#OnThisDay in 1974: President Richard Nixon became the first sitting US President to visit Israel. (Note: Nixon had already been to Israel in 1967, while out of office just-after the "Six Day War") Video via @nixonfoundation youtube.com/watch?v=I6IzKtReโฆ #USIsrael
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Trump: "The current Iranian leadership are very rational people. They are nice to deal with, they are strong and smart people. They are not radicalized, and they are looking to help their country."
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- Snippet in @JewishInsider cites @Politico "The Washington Postย quietlyย removedย two recently republished op-eds authored byย a formerย Daily Callerย stafferย who had published racist and antisemitic writings under a pseudonym on a white supremacist website" politico.com/newsletters/plaโฆ
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"All hell will rain down on them."
President Trump puts the Iranian regime and its radical leaders on notice with a blunt warning at the G7, making it clear the Islamic Republic will not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon in any way, shape, or form.
"If they do, they suffer unbelievable consequences... the ultimate consequences," Trump said before doubling down that Iran will not be permitted to develop, buy, or acquire one if they want to maintain a "very good relationship" with the United States.
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