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#Israelis interested in a role in missile-defense mentioned in #Trump speech, "Iron Dome for America"-- now "Golden Dome" (his favorite color). How multi-layered might work: much more than local-area I.D. that #Israel invented. My new article for Moment... momentmag.com/trump-iron-d...

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#Israelis are interested in a role in missile-defense mentioned by #Trump speech, "Iron Dome for America" -- renamed "Golden Dome" (his favorite color). How it might work: much more than local-area I.D. that #Israel invented. My new article for Moment... momentmag.com/trump-iron-d...

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#Israelis interested in a role in #Trump's #space defense ambitions, "Iron Dome for America" -- renamed "Golden Dome" (his favorite color). How it might work: much more than the local-area I.D. that #Israel invented. My new article for Moment... momentmag.com/trump-iron-d...

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#Netanyahu, at his corruption trial in #Israel: “It’s not new that heads of Shin Bet and #Mossad are against me" (h/t @TimesOfIsrael). My co-author Yossi Melman and I discuss the PM+his #spies in turmoil, on THE MOSSAD FILES - Episode 3--on all podcast platforms incl open.spotify.com/show/3v7NMAj...

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#Trump supposedly keeps an eye on #stocks as a measure of his success. But he plows ahead with #tariffs on #CVanada #China #Mexico. How and when will US companies and consumers be the winners? See how Axios PM tracked the N.Y. market today (POTUS spoke, stocks sank):

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On THE MOSSAD FILES, Yossi Melman and I wonder if #Netanyahu takes a page from #Trump's book: insisting on loyalists to head security agencies and military. Also-- #Israel's decision on #Gaza: back to war? or focus on a #hostages deal? Just 20 minutes, on podcast sites including: apple.co/4gWNmMR

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I have tracked the stock markets pretty closely for 50 years and rarely have I found investors (incl.managers of huge funds) so confused--as to what comes next. Tariffs triggering a trade war? Big US tech companies lose their stock-price mojo? American economy likely to emerge a winner? Usually yes.

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@avindman.bsky.social Please come on my podcast (with Yossi Melman) The Mossad Files to discuss your book -- including MidEast angles please. #Israel also in a folly re #Russia? danraviv1 (at) gmail (dot) com. We would be honored.

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On THE MOSSAD FILES podcast, does #Netanyahu listen to his spy chiefs? He used to - Now he hopes they will resign. My co-author Yossi Melman and I discuss — and also the #Gaza options for #Israel: 20 minutes: spoti.fi/3XoK1iG

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#Israel cuts off aid to #Gaza, claims no starvation - On THE MOSSAD FILES Yossi Melman and I analyze the choice: war or #hostages. And #Netanyahu turmoil with his spy chiefs. On all podcast sites including spoti.fi/3XoK1iG

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#Israel cuts off #Gaza aid, accepts a plan by Steve Witkoff (Trump’s mediator): ceasefire thru holidays (Apr.19), “half” of the 59 #hostages out now. For background on the crisis: THE MOSSAD FILES my podcast with Yossi Melman: spoti.fi/3XoK1iG

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#Netanyahu says #Israel accepts a plan by Steve Witkoff (Trump’s mediator): #Gaza ceasefire thru holidays (Apr.19), “half” of the 59 #hostages out now. For background on the crisis: THE MOSSAD FILES my podcast with Yossi Melman: spoti.fi/3XoK1iG

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#Israeli #hostages seen in new propaganda video, in which brothers plead to #Netanyahu for release deal (one has been freed, the other not). Family OK’d the video published. Adds pressure to #Gaza decision @yossi_melman and I discuss on THE MOSSAD FILES: (on all podcast platforms) apple.co/4gWNmMR

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On THE MOSSAD FILES podcast @Yossi_Melman and I wonder if #Netanyahu is taking a page from #Trump's book: wanting loyalists to head security agencies and military. Also: #Israel's fateful #Gaza #Palestinian decision soon. Just 20 minutes: open.spotify.com/episode/1XEM...

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In Episode 3 of THE MOSSAD FILES, Yossi Melman and I wonder if #Netanyahu is taking a page from #Trump's book: wanting loyalists to head security agencies and military. Also: #Israel's fateful #Gaza decision soon. Just 20 minutes on podcast sites including: apple.co/4gWNmMR

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On THE MOSSAD FILES podcast, @Yossi_Melman and I wonder if #Netanyahu is taking a page from #Trump's book: wanting loyalists to head spy and security agencies and military. Also: #Israel's fateful #Gaza decision soon. Episode 3, on all podcast sites incl: open.spotify.com/episode/1XEM...

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#Ukraine . What can I say about the bullying session, #Trump and #Vance leaned hard on #Zelenskyy and publicly moved even more into the #Putin camp. Historic. Outcome uncertain... Can Europe keep Ukraine's war going? Would that be wise?

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In #Israel is #Netanyahu taking a page out of #Trump's book by shoving aside intelligence professionals? @Yossi_Melman and I analyze that -- plus #Israel's fateful #Gaza decision (war? or #hostages?) on THE MOSSAD FILES podcast open.spotify.com/show/3v7NMAj... and podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Big decisions by #Trump are usually about money: Does something make a profit for America? (See #Ukraine) - as though USA is a corporation (and he the CEO with the full decision power: really doesn't feel like 3 branches of government to me). So - How does "English as the official language" fit in?

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#Netanyahu in strife with #Mossad and #ShinBet intel chiefs -- like #Trump taking over all security agencies? And: misery at #Israel funeral, how it affects key decision on #Gaza: more freed hostages? or return to war? On THE MOSSAD FILES with me + Yossi Melman: open.spotify.com/episode/1XEM...

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I am outside the country but watching the "cabinet meeting." All these #cabinet secretaries have to sit through a long impromptu press conference -- with a press pool that White House shamefully handpicked. Glad to hear elected leaders answer questions, but jeez - enough is enough. Do some work.

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As #Israel has one of its saddest days, we wonder if tragedy and anger lead to keeping the ceasefire and #hostages releases with urgency - or enabling #Netanyahu to go back to war in #Gaza. Click to hear some background, on role of intelligence agencies, in THE MOSSAD FILES podcast. spoti.fi/415tAsB

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In TIME - What CEOs know, but Trump misses, is that Putin’s vague offer is much less than meets the eye...No US company is eager to return. Russia's economy is imploding with decayed infrastructure, supply chain gaps and inhabitable business environment time.com/7261449/puti...

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On KABC Radio Frank Mottek (Mottek on Money) asked me what #Israel will do next. Indeed! #Netanyahu wants to extend Phase 1 of ceasefire: more #hostages released but not ending #Gaza war. More perspective in my weekly podcast THE MOSSAD FILES with Yossi Melman: spoti.fi/415tAsB

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On our new weekly podcast series, THE MOSSAD FILES, Yossi Melman and I (co-authors of 5 books on #Israel spies, security, diplomacy, etc) explore triumphs but also failures such as Oct.7 - and since then unable to locate #hostages in #Gaza. Take a listen: bit.ly/3CTCrFB

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ow on #Lebanon , could erupt again. To listen: spo

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Israel Needs to Decide: Go Back to War in Gaza? Or Just a Hostages Deal? #Netanyahu called 2 freed #hostages , insisted military pressure led to releases. Hints he could extend ceasefire and exchanges, but not to end #Gaza war. On podcast THE MOSSAD FILES, co-author Yossi Melman and I focus n

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#Netanyahu called 2 freed #hostages, insisted military pressure led to releases. Hints he could extend ceasefire and exchanges, but not to end #Gaza war. On podcast THE MOSSAD FILES, co-author Yossi Melman and I focus now on #Lebanon, could erupt again. To listen: spoti.fi/415tAsB

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You may have noticed -- everyone in #Beirut did -- that during funeral of #Hezbollah's #Nasrallah and designated successor -- both killed in September airstrike by #Israel -- Israeli planes flew low overhead. #Lebanon war may erupt: in my podcast with @Yossi_Melman THE MOSSAD FILES. spoti.fi/415tAsB

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New doubts about #Gaza ceasefire and swapping #hostages for #Palestinians in #Israeli prisons. Israel has delayed the Saturday releases. In THE MOSSAD FILES podcast, @Yossi_Melman and I discuss intelligence angles: cannot find hostages? And also #Hezbollah. open.spotify.com/show/3v7NMAj...

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#Israel Saturday night - #Netanyahu +top advisors meet. He leans toward resuming #Gaza war. What about 22 live #hostages remaining? On THE MOSSAD FILES podcast @yossi_melman and I explore claim that a quick-victory plan was rejected: spoti.fi/415tAsB

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Saturday is to see release of 6 #hostages to #Israel. A question on THE MOSSAD FILES podcast with me and @Yossi_Melman: Could the war in #Gaza and #Lebanon have been cut short in Oct.2023? The plot assessed with a guest. Hear: ...at Spotify spoti.fi/415tAsB ...at Apple Podcasts bit.ly/437nlXU

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In THE MOSSAD FILES podcast, we skeptically look at claim by then-Defense Minister of #Israel that if the #Mossad had detonated pagers/walkie-talkies in Oct.2023, while invading Lebanon with airstrikes hitting #Hezbollah rockets, would have shortened the #Gaza war! open.spotify.com/episode/6JYL...

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If war erupts again, not only #Israel-#Gaza. #Lebanon front could restart. In Episode 2 podcast of THE MOSSAD FILES, Yossi Melman and I -- with an #Israeli intel veteran -- on Yoav Gallant's claim he could have beaten #Hezbollah quickly in October 2023 then turned to win in #Gaza: spoti.fi/415tAsB

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Judging by the mood in #Israel, PM #Netanyahu will have strong support for his vow to destroy #Hamas -- in light of upsetting details of the 2 #Bibas infants murdered, their mother missing (an unidentified corpse delivered from #Gaza), and how all the releases have occurred.

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New MidEast intrigue podcast: THE MOSSAD FILES, Episode 2 If war erupts again, it probably would not be only #Israel -vs. Hamas in #Gaza . The #Lebanon front could restart. In Episode 2 of THE MOSSAD FILES with Dan Raviv & Yossi Melman podcast, we skeptically consider ex-Defense Minister Yoa

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If war erupts again, partly on how #hostages delivered, not only #Israel-#Gaza. #Lebanon front could restart. In Episode 2 of THE MOSSAD FILES podcast, Yossi Melman and I discuss Yoav Gallant's claim he could have beaten #Hezbollah quickly in Oct.2023 then turned to win in #Gaza: spoti.fi/415tAsB

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#Israel psyche hit hard by return of 4 corpses from #Gaza. Now Israelis will wake to news that coroner found the female adult is NOT Shiri #Bibas. An unknown person. The family (father just freed) denied a decent full funeral. Awful. More anger is certain. Plus, details of how kids were killed.

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For #Israel (and I think I mean most of society there) February 20, 2025, is a day that will live in infamy. One result - #Netanyahu is trying to play - is more support for pounding #Hamxs til it is (closer to being) wiped out -even if the remaining hostages are put in grave danger. Anger is strong.

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When #Hamas sends corpses to #Israel Thursday, the mood in Israel will plummet. Psychological roller coaster. In 1st episode of my new weekly podcast with @Yossi_Melman, The Mossad Files, we discuss #Israeli intelligence failure: not locating the hostages in #Gaza to try rescues. bit.ly/3CTCrFB

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