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I came across this recent kind review of my book on Jerusalem. 🙏🏽Humanizing The Arab-Israeli Wars: Dion Nissenbaum’s History Of Jerusalem’s Alley Of God
Dion Nissenbaum
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Dion Nissenbaum
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Senior National Reporter, Votebeat. Filmmaker. Ex-@WSJ foreign correspondent. Author: “A Street Divided” a.co/d/fgKJe0i
- He helped rescue Sen. Joe Biden from a snowy Afghan valley in 2008. Now he's asking President Biden to save him. Back then, M. was an Army interpreter. Now he's in hiding from the Taliban after being left behind when US withdrew. "Don't forget me here."
- Remarkable day in Syria: The US military carried out airstrikes to destroy the headquarters for its counter-ISIS campaign after Turkish backed forces closed in on the base. US military says it is carrying out "deliberate withdrawal."
- Kurds briefly block US forces leaving Syria with signs including one reading: "To the US Army who are leaving northeast Syria now tell your children that the children of the Kurds were killed by the Turks and we did nothing to protect them."A message from the people of northeastern Syria after the departure of the US military: Thanks to the American people, but Trump betrayed us.
00:00 - “Tragic, surreal and apocalyptic.” Erik Prince is charging $6,500-a-seat. A rescue effort to bring 1,000 to Africa flies out of Kabul with less than 50. Private efforts to help those fleeing Taliban rule are scrambling as time is running out.
- After Jared Kushner's diplomatic trip to Gulf, Saudi and Qatar appear to be on brink of ending bitter rift. Hurdles remain, but effort marks most promising sign in years that regional dispute could come to an end. wsj.com/articles/qatar… w/@summer_said @stephenkalin
- Pentagon officials say there is no truth to reports that US has launched an attack against Assad bases in Syria.
- US prosecutors quietly dropped charges against most of Turkish President Erdogan's security team involved in bloody DC melee last year, including head of the detail. The legal move came one day before Tillerson met last month with Erdogan to ease strains.
- 1/The Fog of War: Beheaded Babies. Six months ago today, a series of reputable news outlets published reports that Hamas militants had beheaded babies at the Kfar Aza kibbutz on Oct. 7 in southern Israel. The @WSJ was not one of them.
- Latest security alert from US Embassy in Kabul: "We are instructing U.S. citizens to shelter in place. The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has suspended consular operations effective immediately. Do not come to the Embassy or airport at this time."
- EXCLUSIVE: “People were shocked. It was mind-boggling how cavalier they were about hitting Iran.” Trump White House asked for military options to strike Iran, rattling State Department and Pentagon.
- Three weeks after Trump again ordered a withdrawal of all US forces from NE Syria, the US now plans to have basically the same number of troops it had in that area before the chaotic US withdrawal unfolded: nytimes.com/2019/10/30/wor… via @EricSchmittNYT @helenecooper
- EXCLUSIVE: After weeks of frustrating setbacks and demoralizing dead-ends, the Afghan interpreter who took part in a 2008 rescue mission to save Joe Biden has escaped from Afghanistan.
