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Israeli F-35 stealth fighter jets penetrated Iranian airspace multiple times over the last two months, the Saudi media outlet Elaph reported. Both Iranian and Russian radars failed to locate them, according to the newspaper.
Israel and the US have reportedly conducted large-scale exercises over the Red Sea in order to simulate aerial and maritime strikes on Iran and the seizure of Iranian vessels in the Gulf Sea. The exercises come as part of a series of drills conducted by the two countries both secretly and publicly in order to prepare for attacks on Iranian nuclear sites.
The Saudi news story comes as tensions escalate, with the text of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran Deal, reportedly close to being finalized.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid urged US President Joe Biden and Western powers on Wednesday to call off the emerging nuclear accord, saying that negotiators are letting Tehran manipulate the talks and that an agreement would reward terrorism.
“We are not prepared to live with a nuclear threat above our heads from an extremist, violent Islamist regime…This will not happen. Because we will not let it happen,” Lapid told reporters at a press conference in Jerusalem.
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah met with Palestinian Islamic Jihad chief Ziyad Nakhaleh in Lebanon on Wednesday and discussed regional developments, including in Gaza and the West Bank, the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese news site Al Mayadeen said.
The report also suggested potential future cooperation between the two terror organizations, saying the pair discussed “the expected roles of the various parties in the axis of resistance in the next stage.”
The meeting comes amid heightened tensions between Israel and Hezbollah over offshore fields thought to hold natural gas deposits and repeated threats by Nasrallah that have raised concerns in Jerusalem over a potential flare-up on its northern border.
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Israel and Lebanon have been engaged for over a year in US-brokered talks aimed at resolving the dispute over some 860 square kilometers (330 square miles) of the Mediterranean Sea that both countries claim for themselves.
Lebanon has further argued that Israel’s Karish gas field is in the disputed territory, while the Jewish state insists it lies within its internationally recognized economic waters.
In early July, Hezbollah sent several drones to the Karish field that were downed by the Israeli military.
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The Palestinian Authority (PA) has advised Palestinians to not take advantage of Israeli concessions allowing them to travel through Ramon International Airport in southern Israel, arguing that they should have their own airport.
“Should the occupation want to ease up for the Palestinians, let them open Jerusalem [International] Airport,” said PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, referring to the now-defunct Qalandia Airport in the Judea and Samaria region, reported Reuters.
The pilot program has been in the works for months. Palestinians living in the West Bank typically travel to Jordan to catch international flights, as they need special permission to travel via Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport.
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The ongoing Documenta festival of contemporary art in the German city of Kassel was the site of yet another scandal involving antisemitism on Wednesday, as a German media outlet highlighted a video installation that allegedly glorifies Palestinian terrorism and explains the creation of the State of Israel by way of conspiracy theories.
The installation, called the “Tokyo Reels,” brings together 20 pro-Palestinian propaganda films from the 1970s and 1980s, assembled by a group of Japanese and Palestinian artists to gain attention for “the largely overlooked and undocumented anti-imperialist solidarity between Japan and Palestine,” according to an article by antisemitism scholar Jakob Baier in the German daily Taz.
Documenta — curated this year by Ruangrupa, an Indonesian artists collective — has frequently been beset by widespread criticism for displaying antisemitic artworks that were subsequently removed or covered over.
The major German art show has faced severe criticism since January, when revelations of Ruangrupa’s support for the Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestments (BDS) campaign targeting Israel came to light.
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- Combating Antisemitism Is Crucial to the Academic Integrity of Our Nation’s Campuses (Carly F. Gammill, Algemeiner)
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