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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 26, 2026, 09 PM Eastern · Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Israel Today Ongoing War Report. I'm Noah Levi.
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  Speaker 1: Iran is signalling a desire for diplomacy to resolve its
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  Speaker 1: conflict with the United States and Israel. Iranian Foreign Minister
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  Speaker 1: Abbas Arachi stated on social media that only a negotiated
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  Speaker 1: solution can get them out of this deadlock, and that
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  Speaker 1: any move toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz is contingent
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  Speaker 1: on specific conditions being met. This comes after Iran transmitted
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  Speaker 1: a peace proposal at the UN General Assembly, conveyed via
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  Speaker 1: Qatari mediators. President Donald Trump, however, rejected the plan, telling
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  Speaker 1: reporters it was driven by desperation due to Iran's losses.
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  Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed US officials, reported that
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  Speaker 1: Trump privately conveyed scepticism and suggested a renewed bombing campaign
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  Speaker 1: might follow the November US midterm elections. Despite Trump's public statements,
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  Speaker 1: Arakchi indicated that mediators have not officially relayed a US rejection,
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  Speaker 1: and Iran is awaiting their definitive views. The ongoing conflict
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  Speaker 1: has significantly disrupted oil flows and impacted the global economy.
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  Speaker 1: Arakchi had previously outlined that a deal would initiate a
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  Speaker 1: seven-day countdown to reopening the Strait and a pause in
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  Speaker 1: regional fighting, potentially leading to wider talks on subjects including
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  Speaker 1: Iran's nuclear programme, though Iran indicated no flexibility on that front.
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  Speaker 1: In other news, Controversial claims have emerged from a UN
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  Speaker 1: special rapporteur regarding the Holocaust and the origins of the
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  Speaker 1: term anti-Semitism. UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese,
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  Speaker 1: claimed in an interview that Jews being taken to gas
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  Speaker 1: chambers in Nazi concentration camps were referred to as the Muslims. However,
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  Speaker 1: the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial clarifies that the term Muselman, German for Muslim,
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  Speaker 1: was used in Nazi camps to describe prisoners in a
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  Speaker 1: state of extreme exhaustion or starvation. often leading to their death,
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  Speaker 1: and was not a Nazi racial classification identifying Jews as Muslims.
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  Speaker 1: Albanese also argued that the term antisemitism originally referred to
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  Speaker 1: discrimination against all Semitic peoples, not exclusively Jews, and evolved
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  Speaker 1: to focus on Jews because they were the largest Semitic
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  Speaker 1: group in Europe. Conversely, historical accounts from the International Holocaust
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  Speaker 1: Remembrance Alliance state the term was coined in 1879 and
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  Speaker 1: specifically to designate anti-Jewish campaigns, and has always referred to
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  Speaker 1: hostility toward Jews. Closer to home, the Israel Defense Forces
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  Speaker 1: has significantly expanded its personal security branch mandate to protect
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  Speaker 1: service members and officials from a wide array of global threats.
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  Speaker 1: This expansion is a response to heightened risks, including what
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  Speaker 1: the Iranians call settling scores abroad following incidents like Operation
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  Speaker 1: Roaring Lion and a recent spike in antisemitic incidents, according
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  Speaker 1: to the branch head. He cited past events, such as
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  Speaker 1: extracting a soldier from Thailand after public threats and anti-Semitic
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  Speaker 1: incidents in Amsterdam, as factors driving the need for enhanced,
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  Speaker 1: coordinated security protocols. A key turning point was a 2022
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  Speaker 1: incident where a lone soldier's commercial flight made an emergency
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  Speaker 1: landing in Shiraz, Iran, highlighting the critical nature of such
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  Speaker 1: situations and prompting the establishment of a centralised authority, for
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  Speaker 1: security policies across the defence establishment. And finally, a clarification
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  Speaker 1: regarding the perceived scale of a walkout during Israeli Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister Netanyahu's recent UN General Assembly speech. While footage showed
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  Speaker 1: dozens of diplomats departing as Netanyahu began speaking, reports now
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  Speaker 1: suggest that over 120 countries, nearly two-thirds of the world,
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  Speaker 1: remained in the hall. Major powers like the US, China,
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  Speaker 1: Britain and France, along with most of Europe, stayed. The
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  Speaker 1: appearance of a larger departure was reportedly due to factors
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  Speaker 1: like each country occupying multiple seats, allowing several people to
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  Speaker 1: stand and leave when one delegation does, and coordinated efforts
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  Speaker 1: by missions to maximise the visual impact. This perspective was
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  Speaker 1: shared by Hillel Fooled on X for continuing coverage of
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  Speaker 1: antisemitism around the world. Listen to Antisemitism. Watch from Clockwork Media.
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  Speaker 1: Find it at clockworkmedia.org slash watch. I'm Noah Levi. Thank
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