"On Friday morning hundreds of worshippers were forced to pray outside the Old City, as Israeli police barricaded the entrances to the site": "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late Thursday that, at the request of President Donald Trump, Israel will hold off on any further attacks on the offshore gas field" ... ... but the retaliation persists as the war continues: "Key lawmakers doubt budget reconciliation is a viable path for a $200 billion Pentagon infusion": "According to rights groups, the three men had confessed under torture and were executed without a fair trial": Another "date which will live in infamy”? Israel continues its assassination campaign ... ... but "Israel has carried out dozens of targeted killings throughout its history, but Palestinian and Lebanese militant groups have often endured and grown even more powerful after the loss of top leaders": "Still, his hold could grow more tenuous if the number of U.S. casualties rises and the war stretches into the summer" ... ... and "[v]ery soon, the U.S. president will face a choice between doubling down on an unpopular war or, to end it, wresting a concession from Israel that Iran could frame as a triumph": The players who changed their minds about staying in Australia (under threat?) are embraced for choosing to return to Iran in the end ... ... but "one of ?Iran’s top football players ... has ?been expelled from the national team for ... posting a picture on his Instagram feed of a meeting with Dubai’s ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum": "For Modi and his BJP, Israel has become a model for strong ethno-nationalist governance and effective counterterrorism":
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