The Senate on Thursday passed three measures to block President Donald Trump from using his emergency authority to complete several arms sales benefiting Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates but fell short of the support needed to overcome a pledged veto.
Trump has cited rising tensions with Iran as justification for using his emergency powers to complete the deals.

It has been a busy week for Middle Eastern affairs. Israel announced the establishment of “Trump Heights” in the Golan, Iran has announced it will soon achieve higher uranium enrichment levels, and the United States has announced that Israel will not be attending next week’s economic workshop in Bahrain. That workshop has drawn significant attention as it is the Trump administration’s much anticipated first foray into the conundrum that is the Arab-Israeli conflict.
As a pretext to the workshop, the World Values Network, led by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, hosted an informal sit-down with Jason Greenblatt, chief Middle East negotiator to the White House, and New York Times’ columnist Bret Stephens to explore whether peace between Israel and the Palestinians is truly possible.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently told her Instagram followers that the United States is “running concentration camps” on the southern border. Aside from the insensitive nature of this statement, it also reflects a deep misunderstanding and ignorance of the Holocaust and what occurred in the concentration camps.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says Iran should be “ready for severe pain” if they continue to escalate tensions in the Middle East.
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Ismail Haniya, the leader of the Gaza-based Hamas terrorist organization, said Thursday Hamas rejected next week’s US-sponsored Middle East economic conference in Bahrain as it would amount to Arab “normalization” of ties with Israel.
“We clearly express our rejection and non-acceptance of any Arab or Islamic country holding such a conference, which constitutes normalization with the occupation,” Haniya said, referring to Israel.
President Trump’s administration organised the conference, which is to be held on June 25 and 26 in Manama for the unveiling of the economic component of a US Israeli-Arab peace plan.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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When the 17-year-old arrived at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, his entire jaw was cracked and a chunk of the bone had been completely shattered. Several of his teeth were missing and there was a hole in his chin.
“That’s an injury we see in high-speed motor vehicle crashes,” Katie W. Russell, a pediatric surgeon who treated the teenager in March last year, told The Washington Post. “It’s a big injury.”
Jonathan Skirko, a pediatric ear, nose and throat surgeon who operated on the boy, told The Post the damage looked “kind of like a close-range gunshot wound.”
But the teen, whose mother identified him as Austin, wasn’t in a car crash, and he didn’t get shot. He was using a vape pen when it exploded in his mouth.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on “all peace-loving countries to stand by the United States in its effort to stop Iranian aggression” following Thursday’s downing of an American military drone in the Gulf region.
“In the last 24 hours, Iran has intensified its aggression against the United States and against all of us,” Netanyahu said. “Israel stands by the United States on this.”
Earlier on Thursday, US President Donald Trump tweeted that Iran had “made a very big mistake” by targeting the US Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk drone.
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Who doesn’t love nostalgia?
Music aficionados will appreciate these Hartzig masterpieces.
Presenting, some amazing Yossi Green classics, performed by the incomparable Avraham Fried.
These three featured songs are from Avremel’s repertoire spanning a decade from the early years of his career (1983-1993).
He is accompanied by an astounding 40 piece Yochi Briskman Orchestra to help bring these songs to life,
conducted by Yochi
with arrangements by Yanky Briskman.
Lending their vocal support, are the Zemiros Choir, led by the talented Yoily Polatseck with sophisticated harmonies and vocal accompaniment.
Recorded live at the Klein/Lieberman wedding – March 24, 2019 @ Ateres Avraham, Brooklyn, NY.
Songs:

After an intensive search, the kever of Rav Yosef Patzanovski, author of the well-known Pardes Yosef commentary on the Torah, was discovered in the Lodz cemetery. The headstone also reveals the date of his petirah, the 2nd of Sivan.
“Recently, we have been searching for certain graves that were covered by growth and branches, and with wonderful hashgocha pratis, the kever of the Pardes Yosef has been found,” said Boris Veiniger of the local kehillah. “It was completely covered with dirt and thorns.”

Yad Vashem responded to the statements of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez earlier this week, claiming that the US is running “concentration camps” on the US border.
“AOC: Concentration camps assured a slave labor supply to help in the Nazi effort, even as the brutality of life inside the camps helped assure the ultimate goal of “extermination through labor,” Yad Vashem wrote on Twitter. “Learn about concentration camps.”
For AOC’s convenience, Yad Vashem included a link leading to an educational page on their website entitled “Labor and Concentration camps.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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