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Jamie Dettmer

Jamie Dettmer

The Daily Beast

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Tucker Carlson joins long line of ‘useful idiot’ journalists helping tyrants

The notorious Walter Duranty of the New York Times and Nazi broadcaster Lord Haw-Haw offer cautionary tales.

08.02.2024 100

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Top court stops short of ordering Israel to suspend Gaza campaign

International Court of Justice tells Israel to prevent genocide and ease the humanitarian plight of Gazans.

26.01.2024 10

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Netanyahu trapped by clashing demands from war Cabinet and hawks

The Israeli leader's war Cabinet wants a cease-fire to secure the return of hostages, but his Likud party wants unrelenting war.

21.01.2024 50

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Netanyahu’s coalition bickers over Gaza

The Israeli prime minister has been circumspect in outlining a postwar Gaza plan, partly because he fears disputes over the enclave’s future...

09.01.2024 8

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How Israel will fight Gaza genocide accusations in The Hague

Netanyahu may regret not bringing his religious-right coalition partners to heel much more firmly.

05.01.2024 7

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Israeli TV sketch show brandishes satire as weapon in Hamas war

After years pillorying their own leaders, the comedians are now lampooning the UN, BBC and woke U.S. students.

11.12.2023 10

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‘Joe Biden is your best friend, until he isn’t’

The president tends to go by his gut instincts when making decisions. ‘Does that mean we’re hostages to the fortunes of his digestive tract?’...

01.12.2023 3

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Benny Gantz eyes his moment to topple Israel's Netanyahu

The former defense minister is emerging as the most likely candidate to call time on Netanyahu's long political career.

30.11.2023 5

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Israel’s trauma was compounded by talk of an existential threat

Hamas gunmen say their leaders ramped up indoctrination with religious leaders lecturing them to inflict maximum pain and suffering on the Jews they...

27.11.2023 10

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Our warnings on Hamas were ignored, Israel's women border troops say

Testimony from members of mainly female look-out units adds fuel to accusations that Netanyahu badly misread the dangers from Gaza.

21.11.2023 4

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Israel, Hamas at critical juncture in negotiations for hostage deal

Formalizing of humanitarian pauses in Gaza has helped the hostage talks via the Qataris and Egyptians, but a lot could still go wrong.

11.11.2023 4

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Hamas claims to be closely coordinating war's next moves with Hezbollah in Lebanon

The head of Hamas' political bureau in Lebanon raises specter of a second front, saying Hezbollah is "geared for a major war."

18.10.2023 5

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Lebanese hold their breath as fears grow Hezbollah will pull them into war

Border fighting is crackling, and concern is mounting that Iran will push its Shiite proxy Hezbollah to an all-out assault against Israel.

16.10.2023 10

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How did Israel miss what Hamas was planning?

Despite intense digital and satellite monitoring, Israel’s security services were caught just as off-guard as they were by Egypt and Syria with the...

08.10.2023 10

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