🖕 Trump's pick for Homeland Security Secretary has proposed bill to penalize criticism of Israel - entitled “Ensuring the Security of God's Chosen People”

In her statement, Kristi Noem reflected on her upbringing, where she was taught to pray for Israel and recognize Jews as "God's chosen people."

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❗️IDF orders huge swathes of Beirut suburbs to evacuate - asserting that they are located near “Hezbollah facilities”

Displaced Lebanese can be seen attempting to escape their homes en masse.

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📣 Israeli Projectiles Begin to Rain Down on Beirut’s Dahiya Neighborhood - Which Has Already Borne the Majority of the Brunt of Tel Aviv’s Aggression in Lebanon

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🤔 “If Russia Did Not Have Nuclear Weapons, NATO Would Have Been In Ukraine” - Rob Bauer

“But they have nuclear weapons, so it’s not the same as Afghanistan,” NATO Military Committee Chairman Rob Bauer added at a defense summit in Prague.

After all, Afghanistan went so well for the West… 🤡

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⚡️ JUST IN: Israeli Court Denies Netanyahu's Request to Delay Corruption Case - Trial Will Start Dec 2 (KAN)

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⚠️ Scholz Comes Under Pressure to Bow Out Before Election

Christian Lindner, the former finance minister fired by the German chancellor last week, said the election would be a foregone conclusion if Scholz was to lead the SPD into the contest.

“I think the race for chancellor is actually over,”Lindner told a business conference, adding he was “almost certain” Friedrich Merz, the CDU leader, would win.

Politicians from Scholz’s own party have also called for him to step aside and make way for Boris Pistorius - Germany’s current defense minister.

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⚠️ JUST IN: Huge Explosion Rocks Gaza’s Khan Yunis Following Israeli Airstrike

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🇺🇸🇪🇺 Blinken in Brussels trying to save his favorite project

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➡️ Communication Channels with US ‘Still Exist’ – Tehran

“We have differences with the Americans, which are sometimes very fundamental and central and may not be resolved, but we must manage them to reduce their costs and decrease the tensions,” Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi added on the sidelines of a weekly cabinet meeting.

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🔴 NEW: Turkey is severing all ties with Israel – Erdogan

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💲 UK Continues to Export Military Equipment to Israel Despite “Suspending” Arms Sales – Declassified

Britain has continued exporting components for use by the Israeli air force due to gaps in the govt’s restrictions on arms sales.

At least two shipments of parts for IAF planes have been dispatched from Britain since September, when Labour suspended some arms export licences due to human rights concerns.

The documents show how items were dispatched by UK-based engineering firm Martin-Baker to an Elbit Systems factory in Karmiel, Israel, in October.

The war machine keeps turning.

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😒 FBI Arrests CIA Official for Leaking Classified Intel on Israel’s Attack on Iran - NYT

CIA official Asif W. Rahman was arrested by the FBI in Cambodia on Tuesday and charged with disclosing classified documents allegedly showing Tel Aviv’s plan of aggression for Tehran.

Rahman was indicted by a US federal court in Virginia with charges of willful retention and transmission of national defense information, the report said.

He has been brought to a federal court in Guam to face charges. 

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😳 NEW: 113 Bundestag Members Submit Motion to Ban AfD Before Next Election (Spiegel)

Democracy in action…

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⚡️ NOW: Trump Arrives in DC for Meet with Biden at White House

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