Israel Brief: Tuesday, April 28
Three exposures in one day: FBI affidavit, UNIFIL meeting, Hormuz traffic count.
Shalom, friends.
Israel keeps winning kinetic rounds and the institutions targeting Israel keep failing to constrain them. Tehran’s security council met this morning on inevitable protests. The NPT installed Iran as a vice president yesterday. Both happened during the same war Iran started over the program the NPT will spend a month reviewing.
⚡️Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Lebanon: Qassem pledges “Karbala” and rejects disarmament; Sa’ar hands UNIFIL the 10,000-launch tally. See The War Today.
FPV gap: Fiber-optic drones killed Sgt. Fooks z”l; the IDF still has no effective counter two years late. See The War Today.
Iran: Rubio rejects the Hormuz-only proposal; Tehran has 13 days of onshore oil storage before wells start shutting in permanently. See The War Today.
Bibi trial: Cross-examination resumes on a notebook from 2015; the hearing ends two-and-a-half hours early. See Inside Israel.
Rabbinate: Three women sit certification exam after the High Court forces a 2:55 p.m. start. See Inside Israel.
PA funds: A year of Smotrich’s withholding becomes coalition policy; Mustafa pays NIS 2,000 January salaries. See Inside Israel.
NPT: The “non-aligned” bloc installs Iran as vice president of the conference reviewing its nuclear program. See Israel and the World.
Sherman: Biden’s deputy Secretary of State calls Netanyahu the author of “a genocide” in Gaza. See Israel and the World.
Qatar/Khan: FBI affidavit alleges Qatar bought the ICC prosecutor’s Netanyahu warrants in exchange for protection. See Israel and the World.
Below: what Qassem’s Karbala speech did to Beirut’s direct track, why the IDF moved late on a $200 weapon, and the FBI affidavit that names Qatar as the ICC prosecutor’s client.
