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אלימות המתנחלים: בעיה אמיתית, הקשר שמחייב דיוק המבקרים אינם רשאים להציג עבירות של ישראלים כמייצגות את ציבור המתנחלים כולו, ואף לא לדחוק לשוליים את הטרור הפלסטיני. @selsky_alex

Israel's caretaker government cannot start a war on the prime minister's word: Basic Law requires a government decision. @amineayoubx for MEF Online on why Arab capitals are watching the coalition talks, and why no countdown is established.

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@dextervanzile @FWIslamism Read Dexter Van Zile's full report at Focus on Western Islamism: meforum.org/fwi/fwi-news/a…

The board president of a mosque in Chelsea, Mass., has asked God to "defeat the aggressor Zionists, kill them" in eight Friday sermons this year. Local police dined at the mosque a week before the latest one. @dextervanzile reports for @FWIslamism.

"These are networks with links to powerful foreign states. These are networks with ties to criminal activity." @samwestrop, who heads MEF's @Islamist_Watch, tells @TheNationalNews why Texas has become the front line on Islamist influence. thenationalnews.com/news/us/2026/1…

The Houthis have cut every primary route out of Taiz, Yemen's third-largest city. @WFP says it cannot reach 600,000 people there, and 12 hospitals are hours from running out of fuel. @jonathan_spyer for MEF Online.

TODAY at 1:00 PM ET on The MEF Podcast: Bernard Haykel of Princeton on Saudi Arabia at war, from the Houthis to Israel, the UAE, the Mecca Agreement and the stability of MBS's rule. Join us live ⬇️

לצרף את יפן לברית ההולכת ומתהדקת בין הודו לישראל יפן מעגנת את מערב האוקיינוס השקט ויכולה לסייע בבלימת איראן ותומכותיה מבין המעצמות הגדולות ובהתמודדות מולן. @abhinavpandya

ישראל לא תסכים בשום מצב להקמת מדינה פלסטינית ראיון עם מאיר בן שבת, לשעבר ראש המטה לביטחון לאומי, על האסטרטגיה לניפוץ התקווה הפלסטינית להכריע את ישראל באלימות @selsky_alex

"The Brotherhood is at once an organization that can be designated and a worldview that cannot." @husseinaboubak defines the movement, traces its path to Hamas and al-Qaeda, and sets out five steps for U.S. policy.

Australia has never listed the Muslim Brotherhood in any form, though it banned Hamas in 2022. Hollie McKay for MEF Observer: adopt Washington's designations of the overseas chapters, but skip a blanket ban that would land on parties in Indonesia and Malaysia.

How secure is Saudi Arabia, and the crown prince who leads it, with the kingdom at war with the Houthis? Tomorrow on The MEF Podcast, Princeton's Bernard Haykel on the war, Israel, the Gulf and the stability of MBS's rule. Mon, Nov 2 | 1:00 PM ET. Register ⬇️

Exit polls had Netanyahu trailing; an early count put his coalition at 53 seats to 49 for Eisenkot's bloc, both short of 61. @benweinthal on why Iran experts say the result makes a third round against Tehran more likely.

At the height of France's unrest, Shin Bet director David Zini was in Paris meeting French intelligence on counterterrorism and radical Islam. @giuliomeotti on a security partnership that keeps working through every diplomatic crisis.

Israeli strike jets cruise above 30,000 feet, far over the roughly 4,000 meter ceiling of China's QW-12 missile. @amineayoubx on who would be exposed if such weapons reach Iraqi militias: rescue helicopters and low-flying drones.

Britain's prime minister has defended the ban on Palestine Action, under which supporting the group carries up to 14 years in prison. @giuliomeotti on the record behind it, from a £1 million attack on a Thales plant to a raid on RAF Brize Norton.

Gunmen opened fire on a funeral near a Greek Orthodox church in Jordan's Karak governorate on October 23, killing seven by the official toll. @amineayoubx sets out the tests the investigation will settle, and why Israel has a stake in the answer.

In 2013 a truck from Belize's Corozal Free Zone carried roughly 500 kg of hidden cocaine; Treasury tied it to a Hezbollah member who had sat on the zone's board. Jose Lev Alvarez on why Belize's break with Israel left that corridor unwatched.

Israel's police found no evidence for claims the vote was stolen; the elections committee chairman gave the Shin Bet one week to test a separate suspicion. @greggroman in Middle East Insider Issue 071 on why only the judge's inquiry matters.