Less yapping, more doing.

— 🇮🇱/🇺🇸 NEW: Newly leaked documents reveal that in 2018, the Israeli government sought legal advice on how to avoid requirements of the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which mandates disclosure of foreign-backed lobbying campaigns.

They proposed creating a new U.S. nonprofit to continue their activities while evading FARA disclosure. They also retained a prominent U.S. law firm, including the former DNC counsel, to analyze FARA risks and provide strategies to circumvent registration.

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🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told PM Netanyahu in a phone conversation: “Without a ceasefire deal, we may slip into a regional war”

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- US Secretary of State Blinken has landed in Israel.

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: A bombing attack in Tel Aviv, with several Israelis reported dead

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🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: Russia has captured New York.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured the entirety of New York / Novgorodskoe (Toretsk direction) – Ukrainian sources confirm withdrawing from the city.

Russian troops have already reached the center of Nelipovka, just north of New York.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- RAMIREZ LAST ZYN MAKE IT COUNT

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️- Pro-Palestine protesters marching in Chicago against the Democratic National Convention happening in the city this week.

Protesters are chanting "DNC, go home, or we're gonna bring the war home."

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️- Pro-Palestine protesters breached the DNC's welcome reception in Chicago ahead of the DNC, chanting in favor of Palestine and denouncing the Biden-Harris administration.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Drone infiltration and red alerts in northern Israel (Nahariyya direction.)

Drones were reported in the settlements surrounding Nahariyya, and later the city itself. Sirens have continued to sound in this sector for the last 10 minutes since the drones first appeared.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸 - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says this is "a decisive moment" for the Gaza ceasefire talks and "maybe the last opportunity" to get the Israeli hostages home.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian Foreign Ministry: "The US government is capable of stopping the Zionist killing machine in Gaza but has not activated this capability"

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian Foreign Ministry: "The ball is now in Washington and the Zionist entity’s court, and Washington must show its goal from the ceasefire talks"

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian Foreign Ministry: "Is Washington's goal a political maneuver to buy time for the Zionist entity or to stop the massacres against the Palestinian people?"

🇮🇷⚡️- The National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Majlis has approved the appointment of Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh to the post of Defense Minister.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "Haifa Municipality deployed three mobile shelters this morning in preparation for Hezbollah's response" -Israel Hayom, pro-Likud outlet.

🇩🇪🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Lufthansa, Germany's largest airliner, announces that airline cancellations to Beirut, Tel Aviv, and Tehran will continue until August 26th.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured the waste heap in Kirovo (Pivnechnoe), in the Toretsk direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces captured an Ukrainian trench system and a fortification north of Peschanoe – Kupyansk direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces have destroyed a second bridge, the Karyzh bridge, in the Kursk region of Russia.

The only remaining bridge, the Zvannoe bridge, was also severely damaged.

The Zvannoe bridge remains Russia's only route south of the river Seym to supply Koronevo's western defense.