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Iran has upped its air defenses around its uranium enrichments sites in Fordo and Natanz, fearing US President Donald Trump could order a strike in the tail end of his White House term, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas reports.
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweets that Trump will “bear full responsibility for any adventurism on his way out,” likening such a potential development to the Gulf War of 2003.
.@realDonaldTrump uses a worthless photo to recklessly accuse Iran.
Last time, the US ruined our region over WMD fabrications, wasting $7 TRILLION & causing 58,976 American casualties.
FAR WORSE this time. Trump will bear full responsibility for any adventurism on his way out. pic.twitter.com/scCeSwjUmE
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A senior partner in the law firm of one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lawyers has been involved in a scheme to undermine the corruption trial against the premier, Channel 12 reports.
Lawyer Ariel Roth, who co-founded a law firm together with Amit Hadad, who represents Netanyahu in the trial, allegedly tried to get family members of the judges overseeing the case to make remarks against Netanyahu.
According to the network, which says it has recordings of the attempts to talk up the relatives, that was an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of some of the judges, which would presumably result in them being replaced due to conflict of interest and in the trial being delayed.
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The military hands down brief prison sentences to several Armored Corps commanders, after a tank accidentally fired a live round into the Gaza Strip earlier this month.
The mistaken fire occurred during a drill in the area on December 14. The tank shell hit an abandoned building, but there were no reports of injuries. The Israel Defense Forces said at the time it was investigating the incident.
“The investigation determined that this was a grave incident and raised a number of failures, mishaps and mistakes in the conduct of the commanders and in the safety aspects,” an Israel Defense Forces statement says. “The conclusions of the investigation revealed the commanders didn’t act in accordance with the required procedures before the exercise and during it, which led to the force’s misunderstanding that it was a real incident.”
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Two German WWII graves bearing Nazi swastikas have been removed from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in the United States and replaced with new headstones.
The pair of headstones had become a long controversy over whether they were historical artifacts worth preserving or emblems of hate that should be destroyed, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
The cemetery director, Aubrey David, led several workers to the graves of German prisoners of war Alfred P. Kafka and Georg Forst at around 8:15 a.m. yesterday.
“Clearly, it took a long time for this to happen, and it’s obviously the right thing to have been done,” says Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which advocates against unwanted religious proselytizing in the armed services.
Israel s volin genius Gitlis dies at 98
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Published: 12.24.20 , 15:48
Israeli virtuoso violinist Ivry Gitlis has died in Paris aged 98, his family told AFP Thursday.
As one of the modern greats of classical music, he not only performed with the best orchestras in the world but never stopped experimenting, seeking new fans far beyond the elite.
Gitlis was as comfortable playing with the Rolling Stones or jazzman Stephane Grapelli, with African storytellers or Roma musicians, as he was with classical repertoire.
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