The FBI charged CIA officer Asif Rahman on Tuesday for leaking highly classified documents about Israel’s plan to retaliate against Iran for its missile attack earlier this year. The New York Times’s Adam Goldman and Seamus Hughes first reported the charges against Rahman, who the FBI arrested on two counts of violating the Espionage Act: The information in the documents is highly classified and details interpretations of satellite imagery that shed light on a possible strike by Israel on Iran. They began circulating last month on the Telegram app. U.S. officials have previously said that they did not know from where the documents had been taken, and that they were looking for the original source of the leak. Court documents said Mr. Rahman held a top secret security clearance with access to sensitive compartmentalized information, which is typical for many C.I.A. employees who handle classified materials. Iran is reportedly postponing its promised third ballistic missile attack on Israel in the hope of reaching a deal with President-elect Donald Trump, who has taken a hard line on Iran but has also expressed hope of a new agreement. https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2024/11/13/iran-israel-attack-deal-trump/ Prince Turki bin Faisal al-Saud, former Saudi ambassador to the United States, has written an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump asking him to “finish what you started the last time you occupied the White House” with respect to Middle Eastern affairs. “I believe God spared your life not only to deal with the situation inside the United States, which faces enormous challenges for you to overcome, but, because America is what it is, to work with your friends in Saudi Arabia and other friends you have in the area, to pursue what you started before: to bring PEACE, with capital letters, to the Middle East,” he told Trump. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, directly addressed the Iranian people in a video message on Tuesday, for the second time within a few weeks, as Israel continues to await a possible Iranian retaliatory attack. The prime minister declared that the Islamic regime is getting weaker every day, while Israel is becoming stronger: “Yet there's one thing Khamenei’s regime fears more than Israel. You know what it is? It’s you – the people of Iran.” “Well, I say to you this: don’t let your dreams die. I hear the whispers: Women, Life, Freedom. Zan, Zendegi, Azadi. Don’t lose hope. And know that Israel and others in the free world stand with you,” Netanyahu added. “I want you to imagine – just imagine – how your life could be different if Iran was free. You could speak your mind without fear. You could make a joke without wondering if you’d be carted off to Evin prison. Close your eyes. Picture the faces of your children – beautiful innocent souls… Imagine how your children’s lives would look if billions of dollars were invested in them instead of being wasted on wars that can’t be won.” “I know that you don’t want this war. I don’t want this war either. The people of Israel don’t want this war. There is one force putting your family in grave danger: the tyrants of Tehran.” I have no doubt that one day in a free Iran, Israelis and Iranians will build together a future of prosperity and peace.” “That is the future Israel deserves. That is the future Iran deserves. Together, let us turn this beautiful dream into a reality.” Amir Tsarfati, November 13: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee this morning in an interview to Israeli radio station: [55 minutes] Amir Tsarfati, November 14: And in Gaza - more and more Hamas terrorists are either killed or captured by the Givati brigade in Jebaliya (northern Gaza. From Amir's weekly newsletter: Friday marked day 400 that the hostages have been held in captivity. It’s becoming a dangerous time, because the larger the number grows the easier it is to lose touch with its significance. Think of what you were doing in October 2023. Now imagine that every day since then, you have been held prisoner. Every morning you wake up to the same darkness of the tunnels. ... The Four Objectives in Gaza The Battle for Jabalia Progress and Pain in Lebanon Successful Operations in Syria Drones Intercepted Targeting Israel Nuclear Reactor New European Pogroms Does that matter? Maybe we should ask the Jews who were in Amsterdam Friday night. Following a football game, fans of the Israeli team, Maccabi Tel Aviv, made their way back to their hotels. But a mass of Muslims were waiting for them. When the Israelis exited their public transportation, they were attacked. Many were beaten, some were stabbed. It was horrific, lasting about five hours. The Dutch police were nearby, but they didn’t help. Many shopkeepers closed their doors to the fleeing Jews. Thankfully, there were some who opened their doors, hiding the Jews in their homes in a scene reminiscent of World War II. As the weekend progressed, the violence spread as Jews were hunted down also in Sweden and Belgium. Ironically, November is Islamaphobia month. It seems, though, that we need to ask whether they should fear us or we should fear them. ...my call to Jews everywhere that it is time to come home. Europe is not safe anymore. America is not safe. Asia is not safe. It is time to make aliyah and come home to the land given to you by your Creator. Sixty-Seven Days Until Trump’s Inauguration - Secretary of Defense – Pete Hegseth, Fox News host, army combat vet, two-time bronze star recipient There are numerous others who have also been chosen, many of whom do not fit the traditional, stodgy, Washington beltline mold. This is truly an eclectic bunch that will bring a new perspective to the nation’s capital. One thing we can all be sure of is that these next four years are not going to be boring. Turkey Severs Relations with Israel https://mailchi.mp/beholdisrael/amirs-amirs-weekly-newsletter-11465648 Soon-to-be US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee spoke to Arutz Sheva-Israel National News and described the responses he has received since he was nominated to the position. “I’ve been overwhelmed with positive responses, both here in the US as well as in Israel. It’s been an interesting mix, because I’ve had very positive responses from American Jews, from American Evangelical Christians, and from people in Israel,” said Huckabee. Among those who called him, he added, was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whom Huckabee noted he has known for 30 years. “He called me within an hour after the announcement was made...." “The only negative things that I’ve seen at all have been from whom you’d expect it - from the very far left and typically in the media..." He pointed out, “As an Ambassador, you don’t get to do what you want. You carry out the wishes and the directions of the President, and it will be his policies, not mine, that we will implement. But I’m very pleased that his policies have been the most pro-Israel policies of any president in my lifetime.” Huckabee stated that the position of ambassador to Israel was “the only thing that President Trump could have asked me to do that I probably would’ve said yes to. I wasn’t looking for a federal job. I wasn’t even looking for this one. I didn’t campaign or lobby for it. I was as surprised as anybody when I got the call last Tuesday, and the President asked me to do it and it was the one thing I could say to, like Isaiah, ‘Here am I.’” To the question of whether he intends to be more careful on the issue of Judea and Samaria, which is viewed as controversial in the world, Huckabee replied, “I can’t be what I’m not. I can’t say something I don’t believe. As you well know, I’ve never been willing to use the term ‘West Bank’. There is no such thing. I speak of Judea and Samaria. I tell people there is no ‘occupation’. It is a land that is ‘occupied’ by the people who have had a rightful deed to the place for 3,500 years, since the time of Abraham.” …if you remember back to his four years as President, there has never been a more pro-Israel President, ever, in history, than Donald Trump. And it was everything from recognition of Jerusalem as the capital, to moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, recognizing the Golan Heights as the rightful property of the State of Israel, and also no longer trying to push a two-state solution, because it’s impractical and unworkable.” “Instead he pushed towards the Abraham Accords, which opened up relationships throughout the Middle East with countries that had been real staunch enemies in the past. But everybody wins when there are agreements that foster trade, tourism, business relationships and diplomatic relationships.” “President Trump has strength. He’s got a strong history of making it clear to foreign countries that want to do evil things, that they’ll pay a price for it. I have to believe that the people in Tehran - and let’s be real clear, that’s where the funding for all of this came, that’s where the motivation came, that’s where the encouragement came - I have to believe that in Tehran they know that they’re going to be held accountable for their financing of their proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.” Sa’ar has a large new budget to advance public diplomacy, counter lies against Israel. In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told attendees at a Christian Media Summit organized by his office that he would like to create a new position: Ambassador to the Christian World. With more than two billion Christians in the world – and some 600 million Evangelical Christians who are especially supportive of Israel and the Jewish people – Netanyahu said he believed much more needed to be done to educate and mobilize that support. I was there and it was a very encouraging moment that, as I recall, received a standing ovation. In 2021, Ron Dermer, who was then-Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and is now the minister of Strategic Affairs,said publicly he believed that “Israel does not spend enough time engaging Evangelicals” and encouraged a dramatic expansion of outreach to Christians overall. ... I believe that with so much of the world turning against Israel and the Jewish people, it is more important than ever that Israel has just such an ambassador. So, as I sat down with Gideon Sa’ar yesterday for his first interview with any U.S. or Israeli media outlet since becoming foreign minister last week, I asked him what he thought about the idea. Sa’ar, who has built warm ties with Christians for the 18 years I’ve known him, immediately liked the idea. “It should be considered, and I will consider that,” he said. He quickly added that “the most important thing is to understand that Christian believers are natural allies and supporters of the State of Israel.” Sa’ar said that pro-Israel Christians “can be a great asset in our struggle for our rights, and not only in the U.S., but also in Brazil, or in South Korea, and a lot of places.” That’s why, Sa’ar said, he plans to make outreach to Christians a priority for the Foreign Ministry now that he is in this role. “I will surely emphasize this issue to the ministry under me in order to be implemented,’ he told me, saying that he and his team will closely examine “what is the right structure to do it,” and thus whether appointing an ambassador to the Christian world – and building a team around that person – is the right way forward. What’s more, Sa’ar explained to me that in his agreement with Netanyahu to take the job, the two agreed that the foreign minister needs an additional $145 million in 2025 to become much more creative and proactive at defending Israel in the media, including on social media. “We see eye to eye,” he said, that this is part of the task of the foreign minister.
CIA Officer Asif Rahman Charged with Leaking Classified Info on Israel’s Plan to Strike Iran:
Report: Iran ‘Postpones’ 3rd Attack on Israel in Hope of Deal with Trump:
Saudi Royals Ask Trump to ‘Finish What You Started’ in Middle East:
Netanyahu to Iranian people: ‘The regime fears you more than Israel,’ but threatens Iranian attack would destroy its economy:
Question: Is there a chance of declaring Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria during Trump's term?
Answer: "Certainly."
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Turkish President Erdogan: "We severed relations with Israel."
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Sources in Iran to Sky News Arabia: Iran will put on hold its plans to attack Israel - until the start of negotiations with Trump.
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A CIA official has been charged with disclosing classified documents that appeared to show Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack earlier this year, according to court documents and people familiar with the matter.
The official, Asif W. Rahman, was indicted last week in federal court in Virginia with two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. He was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday in Cambodia and brought to federal court in Guam to face charges.
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Senate Minority Whip John Thune (South Dakota) will be the new Republican Senate leader and the majority leader of the upper chamber in the new Congress.
In January, he will succeed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is the longest-serving party leader in Senate history.
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Tulsi Gabbard was appointed as the Director of National Intelligence.
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After the “Jew Hunt” in Amsterdam it makes me sick to see this photo. A symptom of a collapsing civilization is when it resorts to blame it all on the Jews.
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President Elect Trump announces Congressman Matt Gaetz to be The Attorney General of the United States.
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The Republicans have officially won their 218th seat, taking control of the House of Representatives.
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Lebanese Druze residents of Rachaiya in southern Lebanon stopped a car transporting weapons for Hezbollah.
It seems there is growing local resistance in Lebanon against Hezbollah, with communities like the Druze in Rachaiya rejecting the group's actions. Many Lebanese people want to distance themselves from Hezbollah's involvement in the conflict with Israel.
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https://t.me/s/beholdisraelchannel Q&A LIVE With Amir Tsarfati & Pastor Barry Stagner:
Over the past 3 weeks 1300 were killed and 1200 were captured.
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Israeli strike in Damascus.
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The targets of the attack in Damascus: terrorist assets of the Islamic Jihad organization. The attack was aimed at the organization's assets and headquarters in Damascus, and it is not a targeted attempt to eliminate a particular figure.
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Statement against anti-Semitism
The cries for Israel to pull out of Gaza get louder and louder around the world. Thankfully, the incoming White House administration understands that if the job is not completed then it won’t be long before it is proved to have been for naught. Israel has four objectives that must be accomplished before it can consider shutting down the war in Gaza. First, they must eliminate Hamas’s military power. Second, they must destroy Hamas’s political rule over the region. Third, they must bring the hostages back home – both the living and the dead. Finally, they must provide an environment so that southern Israelis feel safe enough to return to their homes where they can live in peace. Only when those four goals are achieved can Israel consider slowing down the battle.
Approximately thirty percent of Gaza is under direct Israeli control. Much of the Israel Defense Force’s (IDF) focus currently is on the city of Jabalia. Located in the north of Gaza, this area is now the greatest stronghold of Hamas. The IDF has surrounded Jabalia from all sides and is looking to wipe out the terrorist’s grip on the area. So far they have killed a thousand terrorists there and have captured a thousand more. Ultimately, what the IDF is seeking to do is related to the fourth objective in the paragraph above – return the southern Israelis to their homes. Once northern Gaza is cleared of all terrorists, then there will be a buffer of safety that will allow peace in the region.
Daily, the IDF is hitting Hezbollah sites in Lebanon. The devastation in cities like Beirut, Tyre, and Baalbek has been great, but there is still so much work to do. Hezbollah has had years to build up their arsenal of weapons. Thus far, a stash ten times bigger than what was found in Gaza has been discovered in Lebanon ready to be used in an invasion of Israel. If Hezbollah had been given the opportunity to drive south across the border in conjunction with Hamas – or even instead of Hamas – the results would have been devastating. Now, the IDF is ensuring that the terrorist group will never have that opportunity. Caches are constantly being destroyed. Nearly 1000 cement trucks have been brough to southern Lebanese villages to seal up the tunnels and underground infrastructure of Hezbollah. But it hasn’t all been victories for the IDF. Just yesterday, six Israeli soldiers were killed in two incidents in southern Lebanon. The oldest age reported thus far among the fallen was just 22.
The IDF destroyed a third-floor apartment in the southern suburbs of Damascus on Sunday. Inside that apartment was Ali Musa Daqduq, the head of Hezbollah forces in Syria, and some leaders of an Iraqi militia. They were all eliminated. Also taken out by the IDF near the city of al-Qusayr on Sunday was Salim Jamil Ayyash. In 2020, Ayyash was sentenced in absentia for organizing the suicide bombing that killed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005. Finally, rumor has it that Israel attacked an innocent convoy of humanitarian aid in Homs province. Don’t believe it. The trucks were carrying weapons along a route known for smuggling into Lebanon.
...the UAVs were on their way to the nuclear reactor in Dimona. The number of drones coming from Iraq have steadily increased and are becoming a greater source of concern. These proxy militias sponsored by Iran that are firing them are just another issue Israel will have to deal with when it is done with Hezbollah.
At various points in the last couple decades, leaders from European nations began to change their ideas on immigration. Instead of blocking the mass of migrants pouring into their countries, they decided the more civilized way of treating them would be to do so with open arms. After all, what could possibly go wrong? So the Muslim immigrants came, and they came, and they came. Now these same countries are looking at their skyrocketing crime rates and the fear many of their citizens have of simply walking the streets and they say, “Oh, maybe that’s what could go wrong.” But it’s too late now. ...Europe has been Islamicized.
It is still over two months until Donald Trump begins his second non-consecutive term as president, and already he is making liberal heads explode. His cabinet picks are smart, well thought out, and, in many cases, out of the box. So far, he has tapped:
- Attorney General – Matt Gaetz, congressman and strong conservative
- Secretary of Homeland Security – Kristi Noem, governor, former congresswoman, patriot
- Secretary of State – Marco Rubio, senator, former Trump presidential opponent
- Head of NSA – Mike Waltz, congressman, 28-year veteran of the army and reserves, Green Beret, four-time bronze star recipient
- Director of National Intelligence – Tulsi Gabbard, former Democrat congresswoman and vice chair of the Democrat National Committee
- Ambassador to Israel – Mike Huckabee, former governor, great friend of Israel, and pastor
- UN Ambassador – Elise Stefanik, congresswoman, a great friend of Israel
- Heads of the new Department of Government Efficiency – Elon Musk, multi-billionaire, and Vivek Ramaswamy, former political rival
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that his country had officially severed relations with Israel. This leads to two questions. First, you mean you hadn’t done that already? With you constantly running your mouth against us, we figured you’d done that long ago. Mike Huckabee to Arutz Sheva: There is no 'occupation', it is the 'promised land':
Soon-to-be Ambassador Mike Huckabee in special interview with Arutz Sheva: "I oppose the two state solution, that's a position that Trump has held and I expect that he will continue to."
Israeli Foreign Minister Sa’ar praises Christians as ‘natural allies,’ tells ALL ISRAEL NEWS he will consider creating ‘Ambassador to Christian World’ position:
