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Mar 12
NEW: Raffi Berg's lawyer Mark Lewis, former director of UK Lawyers for Israel, says that Berg will continue to sue Jones, despite today's judicial determination.
It's a huge wager. Lewis's previous clients, Daniel Miller and Nina Power, were bankrupted in the exact same way.
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Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.
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Gaza today 🧵
💢Breaking: 2 people killed and several others wounded in an Israeli drone strike on the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Al Jazeera reports, citing a source at Nasser Hospital.
Local reporting confirms a strike in the Al-Amal neighborhood in the northwestern part of the city.
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6–10 Palestinians in Gaza die each day while stuck on WHO-approved medical evacuation lists, as Israel blocks nearly 20,000 patients from accessing care outside Gaza. On Friday, Israel again closed Rafah Crossing, trapping thousands more.
61 House Democrats have urged the Trump administration to pressure Israel to let Gaza’s 11,000 cancer patients leave for treatment.
⭕️ REPORT | After 61 House Democrats urged the Trump administration this week to pressure Israel to allow Gaza’s 11,000 cancer patients to reach hospitals in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Israel kept the Rafah Crossing closed Friday, leaving thousands of patients trapped in Gaza. Only 12 of the agreed 600 aid trucks were allowed to enter the Strip and no fuel deliveries were permitted for Gaza’s collapsed medical system.
Israeli forces have carried out at least 3,256 ceasefire violations across Gaza since the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement was reached last October, according to a report shared by the Palestinian side with mediators and obtained by Drop Site News.
In that time, Israeli attacks have killed 989 Palestinians and wounded 3,122 others. Friday alone saw 18 reported violations and 8 Palestinians wounded.
🔹 Israeli quadcopter drones opened intensive fire at civilian homes near Al-Sanafour Junction and dropped bombs on streets east of Gaza City
🔹 Artillery shell landed inside Abu Hussein School in North Gaza, wounding several civilians
🔹 Mohammad Rani Wadi, 12, shot in the left eye by an Israeli quadcopter drone on Roni Street in Khan Younis
🔹 Omar Al-Madhoun, 8, shot in the foot by armed militias operating under Israeli army protection in Mashrou' Beit Lahiya
🔹 Large-scale explosive demolitions of buildings east of Khan Younis, northeast of Jabalia Camp, and east of Jabalia
🔹 Israeli army vehicles carried out a military incursion into Al-Mansoura Street in Al-Shuja'iya neighborhood, with intensive live fire and continuous artillery shelling
🔹 Israeli army vehicles advanced and expanded the "Yellow Line" along Salah Al-Deen Street in Al-Tuffah neighborhood
Since the ceasefire took effect, 989 Palestinians have been killed — including 236 children, 110 women, and 30 elderly — and 3,122 wounded, of whom nearly half are children, women, or elderly. 95 civilians have also been detained.
Israel also continues to hold approximately 34 square kilometers beyond agreed withdrawal lines and has blocked repairs to electricity, water, and sewage infrastructure. Aid and movement restrictions remain severe:
Aid entry
▪️ Only ~36% of agreed humanitarian aid has entered — ~216 trucks per day vs. 600 agreed
▪️ Fuel deliveries at just 14.7% of required levels
Rafah crossing
▪️ Only 6,845 of 19,600 planned crossings carried out (~34.9%)
▪️ 88 individuals turned back at the crossing on the reported day
The WFP estimates 77% of Gaza's population faces acute food insecurity, including 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant women suffering from acute malnutrition — amid what MSF in May 2026 described as a "manufactured malnutrition crisis."
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🟡🔵 Slowly at first, and now all at once, Michigan has become the central battleground in the country’s war over the U.S.-Israel relationship, as well as the public’s ability to debate it freely.
Campuses nationwide erupted in 2024 over U.S. complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide, with authorities rolling up encampments, disciplining students, and in some cases pursuing criminal charges.
Michigan moved especially aggressively. After an Ann Arbor prosecutor declined to bring felony charges against protest organizers, state Attorney General Dana Nessel intervened. Now, after those cases ended in acquittals and dismissals, the federal government has stepped in, unveiling a sweeping felony indictment against eight pro-Palestinian advocates.
The political backlash has been just as striking. Protesters mobilized against University of Michigan Regents who backed the crackdown. Jordan Acker, one of its fiercest advocates, was replaced by Lebanese American Amir Makled, who ran against the repression. Eli Savit, the prosecutor who refused to charge protesters, won the Democratic nomination for attorney general.
In Michigan’s Senate race, despite millions spent by AIPAC and allied groups, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has emerged as the Democratic frontrunner over Mallory McMorrow who has shied away from strongly criticizing Israel’s conduct and AIPAC-endorsed Haley Stevens, with the campaign centering on U.S. support for Israel.
Across the board, Michigan voters are demanding a change in the relationship with Israel. State and federal leaders, meanwhile, are pulling every lever available to resist that democratic shift. Tom Perkins and Ryan Grim write about how “The Issue of Israel Is Ending Democracy In Michigan” for Drop Site. Link in reply.
🎥Video El-Sayed with @headintheoffice.
This isn't hard: Condemn Israel’s genocide without equivocation. Israel’s violent ethnic cleansing of Palestine is wrong. This is simple and any leader should be able to say so. The fact my colleague cannot bring herself to say that is concerning.
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Congressional candidate files a complaint with the local AG, accusing Israel of interfering in his election
The state of Israel is interfering in our elections.
I’m fighting back.
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The state of Israel is interfering in our elections.
I’m fighting back.
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Given this video of El-Sayed’s answer, the question now is will Haley Stevens apologize to him? She accused him of apologizing for violence, which he very clearly did not do. Will be interesting to see if she has the character to do the right thing here.
I taped El-Sayed's answer to Craig's Q, and got a response today from Stevens.
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This isn't hard: Condemn Israel’s genocide without equivocation. Israel’s violent ethnic cleansing of Palestine is wrong. This is simple and any leader should be able to say so. The fact my colleague cannot bring herself to say that is concerning.
This isn't hard: Condemn violence without equivocation. The reported planned violence and intimidation at the University of Michigan is wrong. This is simple and any leader should be able to say so. The fact my opponent cannot bring himself to say that is concerning.
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Saikat Chakrabarti has directed his campaign staff to canvass on behalf of erstwhile rival Connie Chan
They will continue to be paid until July 10 if they do so, per an email sent to staff
Chakrabarti had a very well-staffed field team
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🚨 BREAKING: An Iranian official tells Jeremy Scahill there are still two outstanding issues in negotiations over the proposed U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, but says an agreement could be signed swiftly depending on the U.S. position on those issues.
The official declined to elaborate, adding that Tehran believes Trump wants a deal before the G7 summit, which runs June 15-17 in Évian-les-Bains, France.
Trump has publicly said he plans to attend, and is expected to hold bilateral meetings on the sidelines, including with the leaders of Qatar, the UAE, and Egypt.
⚡️An Iranian official tells me there are still two outstanding issues on the proposed MOU and depending on the position the U.S. takes on these, an agreement could be signed swiftly. He declined to elaborate on specifics. Iran assesses Trump wants to sign before the G7 summit.
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🔸 President Trump’s U.S. Food Aid Overhaul Drops the Countries Closest to Famine, Including Every Muslim-Majority One
The Trump administration’s revamped Food for Peace program is sending American-grown food to non-emergency countries while bypassing the places most at risk of famine, including Sudan, according to a Council on Foreign Relations analysis by former U.S. humanitarian adviser Sam Vigersky.
After DOGE dismantled USAID in 2025, the $1.2 billion program, the nation’s oldest emergency food aid effort, was moved to the Department of Agriculture, which Vigersky notes has no crisis-response expertise. USDA selected just seven countries to receive aid, two of which, El Salvador and Rwanda, don’t meet an emergency threshold. State Department experts with decades of experience were shut out.
Among those passed over despite nearing or facing famine:
🔸 Sudan, in its third year of widespread famine and the world’s largest hunger crisis, received nothing
🔸 South Sudan, where 70,000 people were identified in famine conditions in late April
🔸 Somalia, where WFP can now reach only one in ten people in need, with 2 million on the brink
🔸 Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Syria, and Chad, where millions live in crisis or emergency levels of hunger, and all cut
🔸 Gaza, pushed back toward famine as flour and fuel shortages during a nominal ceasefire spike bread prices
◽️Analyzing the same CFR data, journalist Bethany Allen found the cuts track religion: none of the seven countries still receiving aid are majority-Muslim, while six of the eight countries most at risk of famine are majority-Muslim, and all were dropped.
◽️Vigersky separately argues the program now prioritizes “trade over aid,” with rules favoring U.S.-grown commodities and U.S.-flagged shipping that channel money to farmers and shippers rather than the hungry. He warns it risks repeating the Haiti rice collapse, where subsidized U.S. imports wiped out local farmers and deepened the dependency the aid claimed to fight.
Jun 13
Look what I found: After USAID's Food for Peace program was moved to the USDA last year, Food for Peace seems to have stripped food aid from all Muslim-majority countries.
To this amazing chart from @CFR_org, I added a column showing the % of the population that is Muslim:
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⚡️An Iranian official tells me there are still two outstanding issues on the proposed MOU and depending on the position the U.S. takes on these, an agreement could be signed swiftly. He declined to elaborate on specifics. Iran assesses Trump wants to sign before the G7 summit.
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🚁 Hezbollah’s Military Media released footage showing the targeting of an Israeli military Humvee carrying soldiers in the southern Lebanese city of Al-Khiam using an Ababil FPV loitering drone. The group says the operation was carried out on June 5, 2026 and shows the drone locking in on the vehicle as it moved through the razed empty area.
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🇱🇧 NEW: Lebanon Foreign Minister Joe Raggi insists the “Lebanon issue must be separated from the Iran issue,” rejecting any efforts from Iran to stop Israeli attacks on Beirut’s behalf.
“We do not accept that anyone negotiate on our behalf or sign agreements in our name. That would inevitably be to our detriment,” Raggi told Le Figaro on Friday. The remarks came after Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said Friday that any agreement with the United States was conditional on an end to Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
“It is also a matter of the country’s sovereignty and the independence of our decisions,” said Raggi, who was appointed to his position by PM Salam in 2025.
“Moreover, the courageous decision of the president of the republic to negotiate directly with Israel, under U.S. auspices, has proven that we can pursue an independent path,” he added.
🎥 The Foreign Minister also launched a sweeping attack on both Iran and Hezbollah in an interview with France’s LCI two days ago, accusing Tehran of having “spread chaos, terror and instability throughout the Middle East and even across the world” while holding the Iranian people “hostage” under a regime that “has no remorse about massacring its own people.”
Raggi said Hezbollah had “dragged Lebanon into a war that has nothing to do with us,” describing it as “an armed arm of Iran” used to “control Lebanon and destabilize the entire Middle East.” “Hezbollah’s weapons are useless,” he said, and claimed the group “could neither liberate Jerusalem, nor support Gaza, and not even defend Lebanon.”
(Translations by Drop Site)
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✈️ “Heron-1 is in the hands of the Islamic Resistance”
Hezbollah has released footage documenting the downing of an Israeli military Heron-1 reconnaissance drone over the Nahlé area of eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley on Thursday, June 11.
The group said it used a “specialized missile” to intercept the aircraft, with military analysts suggesting it likely used the Iranian-designed 358 loitering surface-to-air missile.
The Heron-1, built by Israel Aerospace Industries, is one of Israel’s premier long-range intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms, capable of flying for up to 52 hours at 35,000 feet. The system is estimated to cost around $9.5 million per aircraft. While Hezbollah has previously claimed to have shot down smaller Israeli drones, the interception of a high-altitude Heron-1 points to increasingly sophisticated air defense capabilities.
Watch the video below ⬇️
Hezbollah published the footage of their downing of the occupation army Heron-1 drone with a surface to air missile. The wreckage was filmed with drones and eventually recovered by Hezbollah.
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🚨 The Israeli military is preparing to suspend its ground operations in Lebanon as part of the agreement currently being finalized between Washington and Tehran, Israeli public broadcaster KAN reports, citing security sources.
The same sources say Israel does not intend to withdraw from its self-declared “security zone” in southern Lebanon under the deal, and that the issue will instead be addressed during subsequent negotiations.
Separately, pro-Israel Lebanese media outlets report that Israeli forces have reached the town of Tibnin and are poised to seize control of the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh. Israeli Army Radio also reports that Israeli troops are positioned on the Ali al-Taher hills, a strategic high ground overlooking the city.
الجيش الإسرائيلي في اسفل مرتفع علي الطاهر .. هل بدأت معركة النبطية؟
#LBCINews @petraabouhaidar
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Dr. Foad Izadi, a professor of American Studies at the University of Tehran and a prominent analyst of U.S.-Iran relations has shared a detailed critique of the purported 14-point U.S.-Iran framework agreement. Izadi says the draft effectively asks Tehran to surrender its greatest strategic asset, control over the Strait of Hormuz, before receiving any irreversible concessions in return.
🔸Izadi argues that reopening Hormuz would immediately lower oil prices, help solve Trump’s political and economic problems, allow the United States to refill its strategic petroleum reserves, and give Washington and Israel time to repair and rebuild military capabilities damaged during the war. In his view, this would simply recreate the cycle of “attack, ceasefire, negotiations, attack,” while giving Trump ample opportunity to abandon the deal later.
🔸He further argues that meaningful sanctions relief cannot be guaranteed because the most important sanctions are imposed by Congress, not the White House, and that under the INARA framework, any agreement would require congressional approval that the pro-Israel lobby could block.
🔸Rather than sign the agreement, Izadi proposes Iran to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed for at least two more months, arguing recent oil sales provide enough revenue to weather the economic costs. He also urges Tehran to begin collecting transit fees from shipping through the strait, saying those revenues would eventually exceed Iran’s oil income.
🔸And Izadi calls for the publication of a list of regional desalination plants and oil facilities that would become “legitimate military targets” if Iran is attacked again. He says if U.S. or Israel attack Iran again, those facilities should be struck in a way that would take at least two years to rebuild, and not just damaged symbolically. Limited destruction would simply create reconstruction contracts for U.S. companies, he says, whereas prolonged disruption would keep global oil and gas prices elevated, crash the regional energy economy, and ensure that the cost of any future attack on Iran remains intolerably high.
Jun 12
جزئیات پیشنویس تفاهمنامه ۱۴ مادهای ایران و آمریکا یعنی
۱- بازشدن #تنگههرمز در قدم اول. یعنی حل مشکلات اقتصادی و سیاسی ترامپ. کشورها معمولا مهمترین اهرم قدرت خود را در قدم اول به طرف مقابل تقدیم نمیکنند.
۲- بعد از باز شدن تنگه هرمز و کاهش قیمت نفت:
ذخایر نفتی آمریکا دوباره پر میشود.
و در فرصت ایجاد شده سامانههای نظامی آمریکا و اسرائیل ترمیم و بازسازی میشوند.
۳- این یعنی تکرار چرخه حمله، آتشبس، مذاکره، حمله. دشمنی افرادی که رهبر معظم انقلاب اسلامی را شهید کردند علیه ایران کم نشده. پیدا کردن بهانه برای خروج از تفاهمنامه برای ترامپ کار مشکلی نیست. ترامپ نباید بتواند ادعا کند که هزینه حمله نظامی دوم به ایران قابل تحمل بوده. آمریکا و اسرائیل با استفاده از این فرصت تنفسی، خود را برای حملات بعدی آماده خواهند کرد. طراحی برای کودتای دوم نیز در دستور کار است.
۴- تحریمهای اصلی علیه ایران تحریمهای کنگره است، نه تحریمهای قوه مجریه. به این ترتیب ترامپ با عنوان اینکه نمیتواند کنگره را مجبور به برداشتن تحریمها کند دبه خواهد کرد.
۵- از سال ۲۰۱۵ هر توافقی با ایران ذیل قانون اینارا نیاز به رأی مثبت کنگره دارد. با توجه به نفوذ لابی اسرائیل، کنگره به برداشته شدن تحریمها علیه ایران رأی مثبت نخواهد داد. نفوذ نتانیاهو در بین نمایندههای دمکرات و جمهوریخواه بیشتر از ترامپ است.
راهحل:
۱- لطفا این تفاهمنامه را امضا نکنید.
۲- لطفا لیستی از تأسیسات آبشیرینکن و تأسیسات نفتی هدف ایران در منطقه منتشر کنید. در صورت حمله مجدد به ایران، این تأسیسات باید به گونهای تخریب شوند که بازسازی آنها حداقل دو سال زمان ببرد.
تخریب محدود بازدارندگی لازم را ایجاد نمیکند. ترامپ به تخریب محدود این تأسیسات به عنوان پروژه بازسازی برای شرکتهای آمریکایی نگاه میکند. اما تخریب گسترده قیمتهای جهانی نفت و گاز را برای حداقل دو سال بالا نگه میدارد و بازدارندگی لازم را ایجاد میکند. مسیرهای جایگزین تنگه هرمز باید در اولویت اهداف ایران باشد.
۳- لطفا تنگه هرمز را برای حداقل دو ماه دیگر باز نکنید. در سه ماه گذشته ایران بیش از ۳۰ میلیارد دلار نفت فروخته، این مبلغ برای مدیریت اقتصادی دو ماه آینده کافی است.
۴- لطفا دریافت عوارض از تنگه هرمز را فراموش نکنید. بر اساس برآوردهای بینالمللی عوارض حاصل از تنگه هرمز میتواند بیشتر از دو برابر فروش نفت باشد. بخشی از راه حل مشکلات اقتصادی کشور همین است، نه در توهم رفع تحریمها ماندن.
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Protests have broken out against Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad over a proposed framework agreement that some Iranians believe is too favorable to the United States. The senior diplomat said on state TV yesterday that the framework had not yet been finalized and was still under internal review, but some hardline MPs and other officials have publicly, including on state television, forcefully criticized the purported document for making too many concessions to their defeated enemy, the United States.
Protests in front of the MFA building in Mashad.
Iranian protesters chant “Death to Araghchi, the dishonourable traitor.”
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Me right before we start taping Breaking Points. @emilyjashinsky can confirm.
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Why did you deliberately leave out "in the central media unit" of your translation of his job title?
It says "Deputy Platoon, the Central Media Unit, Khan Younis Brigade"
PIJ has a TV station called "Palestine Today", just like the IDF has a Radio channel called "Galei Tzahal"
Jun 12
🚨Global media claimed the IDF struck a tent of Gaza "journalists" at Nasser Hospital on Apr 7, 2025 killing @pressfreedom listed reporter Helmi al-Faqawi.
PIJ just admitted he was a commander!
REAL STORY: terrorists posing as journalists using hospitals as command centers
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