Israel’s Former Washington Ambassador: Biden Leaked Israeli Intel for Iran Deal

As President Biden returns to the US from a visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia, one insider noted a disturbing factor contributing to the erosion of the relationship between the US and Israel; White House intel leaks that harm Israel’s security interests.

Ron Dermer is an American-born political consultant and diplomat who served as the Israeli Ambassador to the United States from 2013 to 2021. He previously served as Israel’s economic envoy to the United States from 2005 to 2008 and is a long-time adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu. Dermer outlined this theory in an interview on the podcast “Diplomatically Incorrect” with The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), a  pro-Israeli lobby and think-tank, one month ago in preparation for Biden’s visit.

The interview began with Dermer and  Dr. Michael Makovsky discussing a New York Times article reporting on the assassination of Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodaei from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who was shot dead outside his Tehran home. The source or the story was a White House leak that gave out confidential intel on Israeli operations. Source: Israel365

Saudi Arabia Largely Eliminates Antisemitism from Textbooks

Antisemitism was by in large deleted from Saudi Arabian textbooks, The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) revealed in its annual report on education in the Kingdom.

The report, published last week, discovered that content that portrayed Jews as insubordinate and teachings of antisemitic stereotypes, including Jews being wealthy, was eliminated from the country’s curriculum.

Riyadh has experienced a trend of progress in deleting antisemitism from its curriculum recently, IMPACT-se reported. Source: Israel365

Saudi Leader Visits Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey meanwhile Hamas leader visits Hezbollah

Hamas head Ismail Haniyeh arrived in Beirut on Tuesday afternoon leading a delegation from the terrorist movement, Hamas announced.

The delegation will meet with Lebanese officials and leaders and leaders of Palestinian factions in the country. Haniyeh will deliver a speech at the Islamic National Conference in Beirut as well. Source: Jerusalem Post

News Analysis: Why is Saudi leader MBS meeting with leaders in Egypt, Jordan and even Turkey this month?

Which brings us to MBS’s decision this week to travel to Egypt to meet with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, then to Jordan to meet with King Abdullah II, and then to Turkey to meet with President Recip Tayyip Erdogan.

The mission: to shore up Saudi Arabia’s regional alliances, and try to all get on the same page before Biden comes to town.

The meetings in Cairo and Amman will be interesting and important.

But the meeting in Ankara with Erdogan is going to be fascinating.

Why?

Because Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Turkey.

It was Turkish intelligence that bugged the Saudi consulate and thus uncovered the sickening plot by low- and mid-level Saudi operatives to drug, kill and then butcher Khashoggi.  Source: Arab News