Hannah Morris, J Street · [email protected]

August 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM

We got a big win – let’s keep it up ➡️

  Friends, A massive thanks to the thousands of J Streeters who signed our petitions and called their Members of Congress last week – we had a massive impact. Over 100 Members of the House signed onto two J Street-backed letters: one demanding Secretary Rubio reverse his cruel suspen…

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  Lexi Goldwyn, JStreetPAC · [email protected]

August 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM

You’re Invited: Join J Street in DC to support Sherrod Brown!

J Street Dear Friend, I’m excited to personally invite you to join us following the National Leadership Summit for a JStreetPAC event in support of Senator Sherrod Brown. A steadfast J Street champion for over a decade, Sherrod launched his campaign to return to the Senate ju…

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  Jess Blum, J Street · [email protected]

August 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM

✍️Sign On: Demand Baby Formula Enters Gaza

 We have just hours to make an impact. Friends, Infants in Gaza are dying of malnutrition, and we must do everything in our power to stop it. For well over two months this spring, the Israeli government blocked all aid from entering Gaza. Since then, Israel and the United States have…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

August 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

J Street This week: Why Smotrich Will Ultimately Fail 🚜 | Ro Khanna on Gaza, Palestinian Statehood and the Democratic Party 🎙️| Netanyahu’s Expansion of the Gaza War 🔍 | A Powerful Show of Dissent in Israel 🇮🇱 | Help José Andrés Serve 1 Million Daily Meals in Gaza 🌍 | This Week’s Must-Reads 📖…

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  Bradley Freericks, J Street · [email protected]

August 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM

Sign On: Stop Denying Medical Visas to Children from Gaza

  Friends, Right now, sick and injured children from Gaza, including those with cancer and war wounds, are being denied entry to the United States for urgent medical treatment. On August 16, without warning or explanation, the State Department suspended a humanitarian visa program that…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

August 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM

Why Smotrich will ultimately fail

  Friends, Today, Israeli authorities rubber-stamped Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's request to build 3,401 homes in the long-delayed E-1 settlement project in the heart of the West Bank. It’s not just another settlement. It’s a deliberate, calculated move – as Smotrich openly admit…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

August 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM

Ro Khanna on Gaza, Palestinian Statehood and the Democratic Party

 [Tomorrow] Subscribe on Substack to watch at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific Friends, Congressman Ro Khanna has been one of the most outspoken leaders on the horrific situation in Gaza and the need for Democrats to shift their approach on the region. Tomorrow, I’ll be sitting down with him to…

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  Sherrod Brown via J Street · [email protected]

August 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM

Special news to share …

J Street I need you in my corner from day one. Friend: When you love this country, you fight for the people who make it work. These words have guided my life in public service. So it pains me to see everyday folks working harder than ever but still falling behind – while D.C. p…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

August 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

  This Week: Stand With the Striking Israeli Hostage Families ✊ | Your Guide to Tough Conversations 🗣️ | What US Leaders Miss on Their Trips to Israel ✈️ | Witnesses to Gaza’s Aid Crisis Speak Out 🌾 | Former IDF Spokesperson on Why Reoccupying Gaza is a Dead End ⚠️ | Help a Violently E…

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  J Street Resources · [email protected]

August 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Gaza: Your Guide to Tough Conversations

  Friends, Our community is facing a painful moment of moral reckoning – one made even harder by the spin, deflections and calculated distractions churned out daily by Netanyahu and his backers and repeated ad nauseam online. That’s why we’ve put together this resource: A guide to the mi…

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  Jess Blum, J Street · [email protected]

August 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM

[Today] Reality Check on Gaza Aid

 🔵 Join a GHF whistleblower and Israeli human rights advocate for an exclusive briefing on the Gaza humanitarian crisis Friends, Few outsiders have made it into Gaza in the past two years, and even fewer are able to speak openly about what they’ve seen. That’s why I don’t want you to mis…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

August 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM

What AIPAC Israel Trips Won’t Show You

  Friends, I just returned from leading a J Street delegation of senior American policymakers to Israel and the West Bank — and we weren’t the only delegation there. AIPAC sponsored two trips: one for freshman House Democrats, another for Republicans. House Speaker Mike Johnson was al…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

August 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM

[Invite] Witnesses to Gaza’s Aid Crisis Speak Out

 🔵 Join a GHF whistleblower and Israeli human rights advocate for an exclusive briefing on the Gaza humanitarian crisis Friends, It’s shocking that despite horrific images of starvation coming out of Gaza daily, Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders continue to say “there is no starvation.…

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  Jess Blum, J Street · [email protected]

August 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM

[Signature Pending] Americans Against Netanyahu’s Gaza Occupation Plan

  Friends, I’m reaching out because we don’t yet have your name on our petition against Netanyahu’s catastrophic, indefinite Gaza occupation plan – including efforts to force nearly one million civilians from Gaza City to make way for heavy strikes. Read, sign and share the petition » …

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

August 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM

Update: Silence is Complicity

  Friends, As we continue to rally our leaders to speak out about the horrors in Gaza, Netanyahu and his allies appear determined to continue plunging deeper into catastrophe. Following a marathon nine-hour meeting last night, Israel’s security cabinet approved plans for the intensific…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

August 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM

🛑 Oppose This Insanity 🛑

  Friends, This is insanity. The world is recoiling in horror from images coming out of Gaza. Starving families. Emaciated hostages. Flattened cities. Yet Netanyahu’s response is to escalate further. Today, as hostage families protested outside, Israel’s security cabinet considered ap…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

August 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Share Now: Outrage Grows in Israel

  Friends, "Netanyahu is leading Israel and the hostages to doom.” That’s what hostage families had to say amid reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu is planning to intensify the war in Gaza and fully occupy the Gaza Strip, a step which right-wing coalition partners see as essential…

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  Ben Linder, J Streeter · [email protected]

August 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Help me make some meaning of this killing

  Friends, My friend Awdah was shot and killed by an extremist settler last week. I’m asking for your help to make some meaning of it. Awdah was raising three young kids in the South Hebron Hills. Since he was a teenager, he’d been committed to nonviolent advocacy against Israeli militar…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

August 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This week: Jewish Leaders Speak Out 📣 | Pressure Builds in Washington 🏛️ | J Street Mourns Killing of Palestinian Activist Awdah Hathaleen 🕯️ | Public Calls, Rallies and Conversations 🎥 | J Street Welcomes French and British Pledges to Recognize Palestinian Statehood 🇵🇸 | This Week’s Must-Reads 📖 |…

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  Hannah Morris, J Street · [email protected]

July 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Congressional Update

  Friends, We’re seeing a clear and significant shift in Washington, DC, as pressure mounts to end this horrific war, get hostages home and surge aid into Gaza. Our advocacy teams in Washington and across the country – supported by your grassroots activism – have been working overtime …

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  Sam Berkman, J Street · [email protected]

July 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM

[Today] National Mobilization Call: End The Gaza War

  Friends, Today at 12pm Eastern / 9am Pacific, we’re gathering for a powerful National Mobilization Call to demand an end to the war, the release of the hostages and urgent humanitarian aid for Gaza. We’ll be joined by leaders and rabbis across the Jewish communal world. Register here …

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  Hannah Morris, J Street · [email protected]

July 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM

Can You Call Your Senators?

 📞 We need to make sure our Senators are hearing from us right now | Friends, Across our community and across the country, we’re witnessing a groundswell of pressure to end the horrific war in Gaza, get hostages home and surge international aid.  As head of J Street’s Government Affairs…

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  Sam Berkman, J Street · [email protected]

July 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM

[Invite] National Mobilization Call: End The Gaza War

 Join Jewish communal leaders this Thursday at 12pm Eastern Dear Friends, This Thursday, J Street is proud to be hosting a National Mobilization Call to rally our community to shatter the wall of silence and call for an end to this war, the return of the hostages and a surge of aid into…

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  Eliza Schloss, J Street · [email protected]

July 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM

[Today] Israeli Voices Against the War

 🔵 Hear from a hostage family member, combat soldier now refusing to serve in Gaza and a peace advocate Dear Friends, Today, we’re hosting a public call with Israeli anti-war advocates, including a hostage family member, a combat soldier refusing to return to serve in Gaza and a peace a…

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  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street · [email protected]

July 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM

The Dam is Beginning to Break

  Friends,  It feels as if a dam is beginning to break.  Since we wrote with our call to action last week, we’ve seen a growing number of Jewish leaders and institutions speak out against the horror in Gaza and the need to stop mass starvation and seal a war-ending hostage deal.  We stil…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

July 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM

[Tomorrow] Israeli Voices Against the War

 🔵 Hear from a hostage family member, combat soldier now refusing to serve in Gaza and a peace advocate Friends, There is a shift happening in Israel. Images and reports of suffering in Gaza are breaking through like never before. A small but growing number of reservists are refusing to…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

July 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This Week: Silence is Complicity 📢 | Peter Beinart and Jeremy Discuss Gaza, Zionism and Jewish Identity 🎙️ | Senators Speak Out 🏛️ | What’s Stopping a Ceasefire and Hostage Deal? 🚧 | Claim Your J Street Convention Recap Discount 🏷️ | This Week’s Must-Reads 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️ | And …

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

July 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM

Silence is Complicity: It’s time for a reckoning

 Join us in demanding more Jewish leaders speak out Friends, There’s an important difference between loving Israel and remaining silent in the face of this Israeli government’s agenda of endless war and devastation. It’s past time for our community to decide where we stand. We are in a…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

July 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM

ICYMI: Peter Beinart and I discuss Gaza, Zionism and Jewish identity

 We don’t agree on everything – but we’re aligned on the need for justice, dignity and dialogue Dear Friends, My invitation to this conversation with Peter Beinart, renowned journalist and commentator in the world of Israel-Palestine, sparked a great deal of interest, and I wanted to b…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

July 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM

We must meet this moment

  Friends, These past few weeks have been excruciating. The images of violence and starvation in Gaza are too horrific to bear. Hostage families are nearing two years of anguish. Young Israeli soldiers are sent to fight a grinding, unwinnable war. We’re at a moral reckoning. As Jere…

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  Jess Blum, J Street · [email protected]

July 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM

[Signature Pending] Sanction Violent Settlers

  Hi there, We haven’t yet got your signature on our petition supporting legislation for US sanctions on violent West Bank settlers. President Trump won’t act. Prime Minister Netanyahu won’t act. It falls to us to stand up for our values and push Congress for a measure of deterrence a…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

July 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM

Join me and Peter Beinart live on Wednesday

 We’ll discuss Gaza, Zionism and more at 4pm Eastern Live with Peter Beinart on Substack Wednesday, July 23 | 4pm Eastern Subscribe Now Friends, The challenges facing the Jewish community right now couldn’t be more urgent. Antisemitism. Gaza. Trump. Netanyahu. Peter Beinart is on…

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  Nadav Tamir, J Street · [email protected]

July 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM

Tell Congress: Sanction Violent Settlers

 This is a Jewish obligation… Friends, There are heroes still in Israel standing up for our common humanity. The hostage families protesting for a ceasefire. The peace advocates holding photos of the children killed in Gaza. The activists putting their bodies on the line to protect Pa…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

July 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This Week: American-Israeli Hostage Family Member On His Tireless Efforts to Bring His Son Home 🎙️ | Extremist Settlers Kill Palestinian-American 🕯 | Don’t Let the Fight Against Antisemitism Fuel Antisemitism ⚠️ | This Week’s Must-Reads 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️ | And much more. …

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

July 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM

[Today] American hostage family member Jonathan Dekel-Chen joins live

 Tune in at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific. Can’t make it? Catch the recording Dear Friends, This afternoon, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of Sagui Dekel-Chen – one of the American hostages who was recently released – will join me and J Street Chief Policy Officer Ilan Goldenberg to discus…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

July 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM

Petition: Take Action On Settler Violence

  Friends, Last week, two more young men were killed in a West Bank settler attack. According to eyewitnesses, Sayfollah ‘Saif’ Musallet, a 20-year-old Palestinian American visiting family, was beaten to death. A 23-year-old, Razek Hussein al-Shalabi, was shot and killed in the same a…

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  Lexi Goldwyn, JStreetPAC · [email protected]

July 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM

You’re Invited: Join Jon Ossoff and J Street tomorrow!

J Street Hi there, I’m reaching out one more time in hopes that you’ll be able to join us tomorrow, July 16th, at 6:30pm ET/3:30 PM PT for our marquee summer event – a virtual fundraiser featuring Senator Jon Ossoff! REGISTER NOW » Senator Ossoff is the most vulnerabl…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

July 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM

The Netanyahu Expose

  Friends,The recent devastating New York Times investigation into Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to prolong the Gaza war has been reverberating across our community – and for good reason. Deeply reported from over 100 interviews with officials and scores of documents, war plans and intel…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

July 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This Week: The Aftermath of Netanyahu’s DC Visit ✈️ | Brad Lander on Netanyahu, Mamdani and More 🎙️ | Our Advocacy Priorities on the Hill 🏛️ | Last Chance for 20% Off J Street Convention Tickets! 🎟️ | This Week’s Must-Reads and Listens 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️ | And much more. …

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

July 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM

Brad Lander’s Politics of Joy

  Build Unity. Reject Bigotry. Protect Democracy. DONATE » Friends, Yesterday, I spoke with Brad Lander – New York City Comptroller, former mayoral candidate and a true leader showing what’s possible when we choose unity over division. What struck me most wasn’t just …

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

July 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM

[Tomorrow] Brad Lander Joins Word on The Street

  Friends,  I’m a massive fan of Brad Lander – New York City’s Comptroller, a candidate for Mayor in this year’s election and now an ally of Zohran Mamdani, the surprise Democratic nominee in the race. Brad is a long-time friend from my days in NYC politics. He’s been a true friend of J…

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  Avraham Spraragen, J Street Policy Center · [email protected]

July 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM

[BRIEFING TUESDAY] Expert Analysis: Trump-Bibi Meeting

  Hi Friends, Truly anything could happen at today’s White House meeting with Trump and Netanyahu. The first brought us Trump’s ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ mass displacement plan. The second brought us a stunningly short-lived commitment to diplomacy with Iran. For reactions to today’s…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

July 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM

This should be the week the war in Gaza ends

  Friends,With Prime Minister Netanyahu in DC this week, this absolutely should be the week the American President ends the Gaza war. A war-ending hostage deal is what Americans want. It’s what Israelis want. And god knows it’s what Palestinians deserve. But with Trump and Netanyahu i…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

July 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 Mamdani’s NYC Victory 🗽 | As He Prepares to Visit DC, Tell Netanyahu to Stop Blocking Aid 📢 | Our Policy Framework for the West Bank 🧭 | Top Analysis on the Iran-Israel War 🔍 | This Week’s Must-Reads 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️| And much more. This Week: Mamdani’s NYC Victory 🗽…

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  Emily Reeves Keller, J Street · [email protected]

July 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM

Take a Stand for Your Values at Our 2026 Convention

J Street Dear Friends, As we prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July – a holiday rooted in the ideals of freedom, justice and democracy – we’re reckoning with the irony of Trump and Netanyahu attacking those very values. Both leaders are pursuing agendas that ignore the hostages …

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

July 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM

WATCH: Three Jewish New Yorkers on Zohran Mamdani’s Win

 Ilan and I take to Substack to discuss the mayoral election and disparate reactions to it across the Jewish community Subscribe and Watch >> Last week’s mayoral primary in New York City has sparked immense interest and debate – in the Jewish community, the Democratic Party and e…

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  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street · [email protected]

July 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM

While No One’s Looking, The West Bank is Being Transformed

  Friends,Since the horrific Hamas attack of October 7 and the Netanyahu government’s devastating response, the world’s eyes have been mostly fixed on Gaza. But away from the spotlight, the settlement movement has seized the chance to take transformative steps to fundamentally reshape …

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  J Street Membership Team · [email protected]

June 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Midnight Renewal Deadline 📅

  Friends, We don’t yet have a contribution recorded from this email account in 2025.* Can we count on you to support our work before our midyear deadline? We’ve got just a few hours left. Supporter Name: [email protected] 2024 Contribution: NO 2025 Contribution: PENDING DONA…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

June 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 Iran and Israel Reach a Ceasefire 🧯 | Tell Congress: Take Back Your War Powers ✍️ | The View from Israel 🇮🇱 | The Situation in Gaza and the West Bank 👁️ | Don’t Miss Out on Substack 💡 | This Week’s Must-Reads 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️ | And much more. This Week: Iran and Isra…

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  Nick Shulevitz, J Street · [email protected]

June 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM

📅 Support Renewal 📅

  Friends, We’re almost halfway through 2025 — and it’s already been a year of extraordinary challenge and consequence. We’ve seen Netanyahu reignite a devastating war in Gaza. Hostage families plunged from hope back to anguish. A scary escalation between Israel and Iran with US invol…

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