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Three mornings a week, FDD Executive Director Jonathan Schanzer cuts through the noise with the experts who have spent their careers studying, shaping, and living the region’s most consequential moments. All before your morning coffee gets cold.
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HOW ISOLATED IS ISRAEL RIGHT NOW?
HEADLINE 1: The Trump administration is forging ahead with its maximum pressure campaign.
HEADLINE 2: In more sanctions news, the Trump administration sanctioned the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority.
HEADLINE 3: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun intensified his call for Hezbollah to disarm.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren.
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GAZA FAMINE CLAIMS AND ISRAEL'S INTERNATIONAL ISOLATION
HEADLINE 1: Syrian refugees displaced during the country’s civil war are starting to return home.
HEADLINE 2: The IDF has released an assessment of its Fall 2024 campaign against Hezbollah.
HEADLINE 3: The Houthis have again threatened to escalate attacks against international shipping.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Nadav Eyal, an award-winning Israeli journalist affiliated with Yedioth Ahronoth and Ynetnews.
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JORDAN'S DELICATE BALANCING ACT
HEADLINE 1: Israel has taken a good first step by implementing daily tactical pauses in Gaza.
HEADLINE 2: As if to underscore the need for a pause, two more Israelis were killed in action.
HEADLINE 3: As if we didn’t have enough Gaza news to cover today, President Trump is reportedly rethinking his Gaza strategy.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Aaron Magid, former Amman-based journalist and author of a biography of Jordan's King Abdullah.
Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
IS LEBANON'S FUTURE BRIGHT OR BLEAK?
HEADLINE 1: Saudi Arabia announced $6.4 billion worth of investments in Syria.
HEADLINE 2: Another country is poised to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
HEADLINE 3: 8 Israeli soldiers were injured yesterday.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer provides timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with David Daoud, FDD Senior Fellow and expert on Lebanon and Hezbollah.
Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
IRAN, ISRAEL, AND THE UNITED STATES
HEADLINE 1: The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned a petroleum smuggling and sanctions evasion network that generates cash for the Houthis.
HEADLINE 2: A round of nuclear talks is scheduled to take place on Friday between Iran, Britain, France, and Germany – the E3.
HEADLINE 3: The U.S. pulled out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ).
Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
GAZA, SYRIA, AND THE ISRAELI PEOPLE
HEADLINE 1: The Israeli army is moving into Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
HEADLINE 2: Hostage families slammed IDF’s Deir al-Balah ground op — fearing for their loved ones’ lives.
HEADLINE 3: More allegations of Israeli brutality in Gaza. And more denials from Israel.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Einat Wilf, author, former Israeli Knesset member, and foreign policy advisor to the late Shimon Peres.
Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
THE UN ISN'T JUST A FEW BAD APPLES — IT'S ROTTEN TO THE CORE
HEADLINE 1: Israel launched a national awareness campaign warning Israelis of Iranian recruitment attempts.
HEADLINE 2: The Yemeni National Resistance Forces intercepted a shipment of Iranian weapons.
HEADLINE 3: President Trump met with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani at the White House on Wednesday.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer.
Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH HUMANITARIAN AID IN GAZA?
HEADLINE 1: Lebanon’s central bank banned banks from interacting with a Hezbollah-linked financial institution called Al-Qard Al-Hassan.
HEADLINE 2: Sectarian clashes erupted between Sunni Bedouin tribes and Druze militias in Syria.
HEADLINE 3: The UN Human Rights Council is imploding.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with Reverend Johnnie Moore, chairman of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
ISRAEL, GAZA, IRAN ... AND MORE
HEADLINE 1: The IDF’s Gaza war tempo is picking up.
HEADLINE 2: Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly supports a potential nuclear deal that prevents Iran from enriching uranium.
HEADLINE 3: New details are emerging about the 12-day war between Iran and Israel.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely situational updates and analysis, followed by a conversation with FDD Adjunct Fellow Seth J. Frantzman, who serves as a senior Middle East correspondent and analyst at The Jerusalem Post.
Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
WHAT'S GOING ON INSIDE IRAN RIGHT NOW?
HEADLINE 1: The Trump administration continues to escalate its maximum pressure campaign against Iran.
HEADLINE 2: Francesca Albanese got sanctioned.
HEADLINE 3: Hamas tried to abduct an Israeli soldier.
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FDD Executive Director Jon Schanzer delivers timely updates and expert analysis, followed by a conversation with Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian-born Israeli lecturer, author, and expert on Iranian politics.
Learn more at: https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief
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