— ❗️🇮🇱/🇺🇸 NEW: Netanyahu asked President Trump for 'more support' in his push for a pardon. – Axios

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— 🇺🇸/✡️ Elon Musk: 'Jews are White, if not Peak White.'

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Elan Carr, the Jewish-American CEO of the Israeli American Council, issues a violent threat, saying that diaspora Jews 'need to do to our enemies here what Israel did to its enemies there.'

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— 🇷🇺/🇺🇸/🇺🇦 NEW: After a five-hour meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Trump's Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner, along with U.S. Envoy Steve Shitkoff, the Kremlin states that 'no compromise was reached' for a deal to end the Ukraine war.

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Regarding Venezuela, while I fully stand with the country, don't expect much from Maduro.

The current government in Venezuela is not there because of a strong ideology or their own morals, and if they can make a deal to save themselves they'll probably take it.

Groups like Hezbollah can't be pressured to disarm because their very existence is tied to a faith and an ideology, for which they're willing to die if necessary, and that's why pressuring them doesn't work

Venezuela isn't the same. I appreciate the current government because they made anti-American policy, but when the top officials fear they're in actual danger, I don't think they'll be willing to sacrifice themselves.

I respect Maduro and I hope I'm wrong and he chooses to stay and fight. But I don't think he will. Southern American countries are quite brutal and he probably doesn't want to risk getting lynched or something.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇻🇪/🇶🇦 BREAKING: The Trump administration is in talks with Venezuela to 'relocate' President Maduro to Qatar or another rich Arab country in exchange for giving up power – New York Post

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇻🇪/🇶🇦 NOTE: In the very same article, an informed source says it is 'not true' that Maduro is considering fleeing to Qatar, and the plan is only being discussed by U.S. officials and has not been discussed with Maduro at all

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian 'Khordad-3' air defense systems spotted on the road to Qazvin

These AD systems seem to be on their way to the lush hyrcanian forests in northern Iran, hence why their camouflage is green.

Many Israeli jets during the 12-Day War attacked Tehran from Azerbaijan, Northern Iran and the Caspian Sea area. Likely attempting to fill and restore that gap.

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— NOTE: Footage has already been circulating for hours online. Normally we would have blurred it for security reasons, but it would make no real difference in this case, as it's already public and widely available.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Since the end of the 12-Day War, Iran has rapidly begun redeploying air defense systems across the country, especially the North West / Caspian Sea

Weak spots have been addressed, and air defense batteries are being more thoroughly emplaced and camouflaged around strategic sites and geographical features.

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇱🇧 BREAKING: Earlier today, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would send representatives to meet with Lebanese officials to lay the groundwork for 'relations and economic cooperation' with Lebanon

This news is extremely significant, as Lebanon and Israel currently have zero official relations and this would practically constitute the beginning of a normalization.

Israel will also start joining the monthly Ceasefire Monitoring Committee meetings in Al-Naqoura with the Lebanese Army and U.S. (they attended for the first time today).

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— 🇾🇪/🇦🇪/🇸🇦 NEW: The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) forces have captured the city of Seiyun in Yemen's central Hadramawt Governorate

The capture of the city comes amid a wider STC offensive against the Saudi-backed 'Hadramawt Tribal Coalition' that controlled most of the area until now.

This marks the first direct conflict between UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council and the Saudi-backed Hadramawt Tribes.

Ansrallah (the Houthis) are not involved in the fighting, as they are not present in central, southern or eastern Yemen.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Five Israeli soldiers of the 'Golani' Brigade were injured last night in Rafah, southern Gaza, two of them in 'serious condition'

The IDF claims that Palestinian fighters fired an RPG at them.

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— 🇮🇱/🇺🇸 NEW: Hebrew media reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit Washington D.C. to meet President Trump at the White House from December 28th to December 31st

This marks the international fugitive and convicted war criminal's fifth visit to the U.S. since Donald Trump took office.

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