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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-09-05 at 14:01 · Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

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  Speaker 1: The time is now 2.01pm in New York. I'm Noah
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  Speaker 1: Levi and this is the latest Israel Today, ongoing war report.
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  Speaker 1: In Iranian retaliation, former NSC advisor Jacob Nagel says six
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  Speaker 1: to nine months of sustained economic pressure could push Iranians
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  Speaker 1: back into the streets, creating the conditions for a popular uprising,
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  Speaker 1: while warning Tehran would not hesitate to retaliate. Nagel, a
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  Speaker 1: former national security adviser and head of the National Security Council,
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  Speaker 1: who now serves as a senior fellow at the Foundation
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  Speaker 1: for Defence of Democracies, says the United States is pursuing
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  Speaker 1: a strategy of applying sustained economic pressure on Iran rather
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  Speaker 1: than launching additional strikes, aiming to weaken Tehran by targeting
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  Speaker 1: its main revenue sources. He stressed that the United States
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  Speaker 1: is a powerful actor and that the approach is to
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  Speaker 1: choke Iran's economy. while acknowledging Iran continues to export fuel
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  Speaker 1: despite the pressure and questioning the exact figures, suggesting for
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  Speaker 1: discussion that exports could be halved from pre-war levels. Nagel
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  Speaker 1: argued that the pressure on Iran's economy is designed to
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  Speaker 1: disrupt revenue streams and, if sustained, could create conditions for
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  Speaker 1: domestic upheaval while leaving room for Tehran to respond. In
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  Speaker 1: regional impacts, NATO will not tolerate hybrid actions against members,
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  Speaker 1: US Envoy says. US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whittaker warned
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  Speaker 1: that NATO must not tolerate deliberate hybrid warfare actions and
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  Speaker 1: pledged American support to member states as they confront such incidents.
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  Speaker 1: He noted last month's attempted drone attack at Germany's Leipzig-Haller airport,
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  Speaker 1: which Berlin has blamed on Russia as more troubling than
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  Speaker 1: other recent hybrid incidents, alongside Russian drones used in Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: that drifted off course. Whittaker said NATO must be prepared
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  Speaker 1: and vigilant and, when possible, publicly condemn such actions. If
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  Speaker 1: the identity of the perpetrators can be established, as Germany
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  Speaker 1: has done, the alliance should express that the behaviour is
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  Speaker 1: unacceptable and that it will not be tolerated. He also
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  Speaker 1: cautioned that critical infrastructure, including energy assets, could become targets
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  Speaker 1: and should be monitored by national authorities, with responses primarily
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  Speaker 1: at the national level, though the United States stands by
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  Speaker 1: its allies. In Israeli domestic politics, religious right is slowly
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  Speaker 1: but surely becoming the religious bloc. An opinion piece contends,
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  Speaker 1: noting a shift within the Israeli right over decades. The
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  Speaker 1: author observes a pattern of defections from Likud and related figures,
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  Speaker 1: from Ariel Sharon who formed Kadima, to Tzipi Livni moving
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  Speaker 1: to the political centre, to Ehud Olmet, Dan Meridor, Benny Begin,
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  Speaker 1: Mosh Yalen and Avigdor Liberman. With current figures like Jilad
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  Speaker 1: Erden and others aligning with a constituency that is increasingly
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  Speaker 1: religious and messianic, the piece argues that the traditional Israeli
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  Speaker 1: right was largely secular, nationalist and security-minded. But the bloc
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  Speaker 1: that is replacing it is more religious, more messianic and
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  Speaker 1: more oppositional to liberal ideals such as the rule of
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  Speaker 1: law and civil rights. In antisemitism and anti-Jewish hate, an
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  Speaker 1: Australian man is charged over alleged antisemitic threats against a
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  Speaker 1: Zionist council. A 52-year-old man from Mossman in northern Queensland,
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  Speaker 1: Chris McCombs, is facing two hate crime offences after allegedly
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  Speaker 1: making threats targeting Jews and Israelis, with calls for expulsion
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  Speaker 1: from Australia. The Queensland Zionist Council confirmed it received the
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  Speaker 1: online message, while police protected the identity of the council
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  Speaker 1: representative who received it. The council and the Zionist Federation
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  Speaker 1: of Australia supported not disclosing the individual's identity and used
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  Speaker 1: the case to highlight what it calls a growing, dangerous trend,
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  Speaker 1: the deployment of terms like Zionists and anti-Zionism, as a
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  Speaker 1: cover for statements aimed at Jews and Israelis. The Council
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  Speaker 1: said anti-Zionism has increasingly become a tool for a modern
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  Speaker 1: form of anti-Jewish hatred, presenting itself as political commentary, while
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  Speaker 1: the intent remains targeted at Jews and Israelis. In Israeli
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  Speaker 1: economy and business, Rome and Athens. Israel's unlikely new gateways
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  Speaker 1: to North America is a column describing how Europe's hubs
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  Speaker 1: are becoming central stops for Israelis heading to the United
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  Speaker 1: States and Canada. The piece says Rome's Fiumicino and Athens'
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  Speaker 1: Eliphtherios-Venizlos airports function as de facto Terminal 4 and Terminal 5,
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  Speaker 1: offering more routes, lower fares and the opportunity to turn
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  Speaker 1: a layover into a short break. The author recalls a
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  Speaker 1: cab ride to Ben Gurion Airport, where the driver asked
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  Speaker 1: whether Terminal 1 or 3 was preferred, and uses the
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  Speaker 1: contrast with the ongoing staff disruption to argue the appeal
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  Speaker 1: of European hubs. The column asserts that many Israelis flying
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  Speaker 1: to North America pass through these European hubs, and it
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  Speaker 1: advocates recognising Rome and Athens as expanded gateways to ease
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  Speaker 1: travel options without new construction. Thank you for tuning in
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  Speaker 1: to this Israel Today, ongoing war report update. I'm Noah Levi.
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