— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Axios claims that the White House sent an 'angry message' to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the killing of a Hamas military commander by the IDF over the weekend, which is considered a violation of the ceasefire

It's unclear how credible the report is, which was published by Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, a former IDF intelligence officer.

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: President Trump goes on a bizarre rant about the death of Jewish-American Hollywood actor Rob Reiner, who was stabbed to death, claiming that he passed away due to 'Trump Derangement Syndrome.'

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: Merriam-Webster Dictionary has chosen 'slop' (as in AI slop, goyslop) as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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— 🇮🇱/🇳🇱 NEW: The International Criminal Court has denied Israel's appeal to halt the ICC investigation into war crimes committed in Gaza following October 7th, 2023

If successful, the appeal would have led to the revocation of the arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister and international fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Trump denies any reports of the White House sending an 'angry message' to Netanyahu, stating: 'Israel and I have gotten along very well. My relationship with Bibi Netanyahu has obviously been a very good relationship.'

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: 'We wiped out the Iran nuclear threat.'

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— 🇺🇸/🇸🇾 NEW: President Trump says Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa 'feels very bad' for the two American soldiers who died: 'He feels very badly about it. He's working on it. He's a strong man.'

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham: 'Not one American soldier has died in the pursuit of what Israel has done.'

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— 🇺🇸/✡️ WATCH: Rabbi Yehouda Kaploun says 'The greatest leaders in technology, many of whom are Jewish, have offered their assistance to do better on [social media] algorithms'

He was nominated by President Trump for U.S. Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism and says the envoy's office will be 'one of the highest-profile offices in the State Department' at the direction of Donald Trump and Marco Rubio.

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇩 Rabbi Yehouda Kaploun: 'Indonesia has 350 million Muslims living in the country. How do we change their textbooks?'

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance says there is a difference between 'not liking Israel' and anti-semitism

The admission comes after months of public opinion polling in the United States has shown that the majority of young Americans, including Republicans, have turned on Israel.

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He probably just disqualified himself from the Presidency with this single Tweet btw.

There is zero chance that an American with even moderately logical opinions on Israel would be allowed to become President.

— 🇦🇺/🇵🇭/🇮🇳 NEW: The Philippines’ immigration department has confirmed that Bondi shooter Sajid Akram entered the country using an Indian passport, while his son, Naveed Akram, entered as an Australian national

Australian police are still investigating why the duo travelled to Davao, Philippines a month before carrying out the attack at Bondi.

After the shooting, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and two homemade ISIS flags were found in the perpetrators’ vehicle, with one of them draped over its windscreen.

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: The chief of Iran's Military Intelligence Organization, Brigadier General Hassan Habibian, has been dismissed by executive order of the Supreme Leader

His successor has already been appointed; the name is classified.

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— For reference: The previous chief of Iranian military intelligence, Brig. Gen. Hassan Habibian

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Following Vice President J.D. Vance's statement on X that 'criticism of Israel' is different from anti-semitism, thousands of Israelis and Jews have jumped on him and called him an antisemite

Emily Schrader, a high-profile Israeli journalist and social media personality, responded to J.D. Vance by saying that he is 'unworthy' of being VP, that he has encouraged 'Jew hating conspiracies' since coming into office, he is 'despicable', and that he has allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to take over the American Conservative movement.

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