Emmy & Daniel Pearl Award-winning security journalist. Distinguished Fellow @VanderbiltU. Fellow @TheGCSP. Author, I WAS TOLD TO COME ALONE. Speaker/moderator.
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New: Sources from three countries confirm that the Trump Administration has advocated Viktor Orbán for UN Secretary-General.
The US has encouraged Orbán to enter the race, even bringing him the initial idea of a joint U.S.-Russia-China candidacy.
WSJ:
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Syria’s Education Ministry has altered textbook images, adding veils and niqabs on women, erasing girls from some sections and removing photos of men dancing. The changes have sparked consternation and concern among Syrians who, after 15 years of war and decades of dictatorship, want and deserve an inclusive future and not one where half the population is slowly erased in schools and universities.
Jordan’s King Abdullah orders security forces to respond firmly to Karak church attack arab.news/5gx52
Israel votes Tuesday. The final weekend has been dominated by one interview: PM Benjamin Netanyahu told Channel 10 on Friday that Israel should prepare for sanctions, including on its banks, and build a "bypass economy," confirming he meant cryptocurrency. #IsraelElections
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Naftali Bennett said the plan would put Israel in the company of Iran, North Korea and Russia; Yair Lapid said Netanyahu was conceding sanctions would follow his re-election. Netanyahu's pitch Sunday: two more years alongside Trump to topple Iran's regime.
Netanyahu has long argued that falling US support reflects American domestic politics rather than his policies.
Tuesday's question: which bloc reaches 61 of 120 seats. #IsraelElections
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Bank of Israel horrified by Netanyahu’s interview yesterday, just put out a statement saying “cryptocurrencies cannot be used as a way of bypassing sanctions on Israel. The right thing to do is safeguard Israel’s trade relations with major trade partners and prevent sanctions”
As a child in Morocco, I was raised by my grandmother, a single mother who was afraid of no man. If one tried to belittle her, she'd raise her voice and put him in his place. When Morocco's PM said "I am not a chandelier," I heard my grandmother. 🇲🇦 #Morocco #MoroccanWomen
Morocco's new head of government @ChefGov_ma , Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, won her investiture vote in the House of Representatives on Thursday, 204–127. The debate produced an unusually sharp exchange between her party, PAM, and the Islamist opposition PJD. Notes 🧵
Morocco's new head of government @ChefGov_ma , Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, won her investiture vote in the House of Representatives on Thursday, 204–127. The debate produced an unusually sharp exchange between her party, PAM, and the Islamist opposition PJD. Notes 🧵
The PJD's side: group leader Driss El Azami El Idrissi said she had not answered his critique of the programme – including the 5% growth and one-million-jobs targets – and accused her of replying in partisan terms, urging her to move past a "PJD syndrome."
Observation: less than a month in, El Mansouri has chosen to confront the religious argument directly rather than sidestep it. Whether that translates into policy – family-code reform, inheritance etc..– is the open question. #Morocco
At least seven people were killed and 10 others injured on Friday when gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a church in Jordan's Karak governorate, the state-owned television station Al-Mamlaka reported. reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
