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Ben Sales

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As seen in: The Times of Israel, MSN, MSN España, Post Outlook, Flipboard, Jewish Standard, New Jersey Jewish News, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, The Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, Florida Jewish Journal and
News editor @TimesofIsrael. Coffee drinker. Crossword person. Born and raised in Chicagoland.
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‘Zero hour is coming’: How Israel went from negotiating over hostages to the daring raid at Entebbe

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On Thursday, July 1, 1976, as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sat in Tel Aviv with a close circle of advisers, the IDF chief of staff approached him with some bad news. “There’s no denying it,” Motta Gur said. “The IDF isn’t really built for operations in Entebbe.” It was the middle of the afternoon, four days after the government had received word that an Air France plane, en route from Tel Aviv to Paris via Athens, had been hijacked and eventually taken to Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
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American pro-Israel activists may have just had their worst week ever

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A telling moment in the New York City congressional primaries on Tuesday night came when, near the end of Darializa Avila Chevalier’s victory speech, the crowd began spontaneously chanting, “Free, free Palestine!” It’s hard to imagine how a candidate could be more anti-Israel than Avila Chevalier, who just ousted a pro-Israel incumbent. But she didn’t directly mention Israel in her speech.
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Netanyahu can’t run the playbook he used to fight the 2015 Iran deal — and Trump knows it

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When Benjamin Netanyahu decided to address the US Congress in 2015 to mount a no-holds-barred attack on then-US president Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, it alienated Democrats, energized Republicans, and put US Jews in an uncomfortable position. It also placed the prime minister on the world’s biggest stage two weeks before a bruising Israeli election. One thing the speech didn’t do: achieve its stated goal.
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