— 🇫🇷/🇮🇷 NEW: The reason French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face by his wife Brigitte is because Macron was caught in an affair with Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, according to newly revealed text messages - The Times

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇦🇪/🇮🇷 NEW: Israel’s Prime Minister office confirms for the first time that Netanyahu secretly met with UAE leader Mohammed bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi during the war against Iran, leading to a ‘historic breakthrough in relations’

After the meeting, Israel shipped an Iron Dome system to the United Arab Emirates, and the two countries agreed on a shared strategy to counter Iran and even Saudi Arabia.

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: Israeli media, citing sources, says the IDF Home Front Command may tighten guidelines after the end of Trump’s visit to China

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— 🇮🇱/🇾🇪 UPDATE: There was no drone launch from Yemen to Eilat yesterday, an interceptor was launched at a flock of migratory birds, per Hebrew media

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: Israeli journalist Itay Blumental complains that his work has become almost impossible due to the severe censorship

He says most journalists in Israel spend the majority of their time navigating the censorship laws.

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There is this LLM (Large Language Model, basically an AI) that’s only trained on pre 1930s content.

It’s so funny to see all the responses.

— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱/🇦🇪 Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi:

‘Netanyahu has now publicly revealed what Iran’s security services long ago conveyed to our leadership.

Enmity with the great people of Iran is a foolish gamble. Collusion with Israel in doing so? Unforgivable.

Those colluding with Israel to sow division will be held to account.’

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— You know, this is the funny thing about Israel.

They’re so giddy about actually being friends with an Arab nation for once, that they literally cannot shut the fuck up for 5 minutes about a top secret meeting between senior officials.

Publication of this meeting severely annoyed the UAE because it undermines its credibility in the Arab world even more, which actually hurts cooperation with Israel in the long run.

If Israel wants to keep countries like the UAE on their side, they have to get rid of this hubris and the need to constantly brag about how good their ties are. Because that position is indefensible to the domestic Arab audience, and the UAE knows it.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran has boarded and seized a vessel off the coast of Fujairah, UAE

The vessel is being redirected towards Iranian territorial waters.

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