Danny Citrinowicz, who once ran the Iran branch of Israeli military intelligence, says Netanyahu wants to repeat what he did after October 7, when the war pulled Benny Gantz into a government Netanyahu controlled:

“It will create the notion of emergency. We’re fighting our biggest enemy, and we have to have a government under him.”

With the window in Washington closing once the new Congress is sworn in, Netanyahu is pressing Trump hard to strike now, before that chance disappears for good.

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  Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇮🇱🇮🇷🇺🇸 Netanyahu could be DAYS AWAY from losing power, but he may still have TIME TO PUSH Trump into another war with Iran.

I spoke with former Israeli intelligence official Danny Citrinowicz as Netanyahu’s political future became increasingly uncertain.

Israel’s opposition is working on a deal that could put Gadi Eisenkot in power, and Danny believes Netanyahu has almost NO viable path to forming another government.

But there’s something that worries him.

Netanyahu could see another war with Iran as his last chance to create a national emergency, pull opposition leaders into a unity government and save his political career.

And Trump’s crushing midterm defeat has made the situation even more urgent.

Danny believes the window for another American strike could close once the new Democratic-controlled Congress takes office in January.

We also discussed a rather disturbing consequence of the Iran war.

Danny thinks the conflict may have STRENGTHENED Iran’s hardliners and pushed Tehran closer to considering nuclear weapons.

Another bombing campaign, he argues, could make that problem even worse.

But what surprised me most was his assessment of Israel itself.

Danny believes Netanyahu’s attempts to undermine the election results pose a greater immediate danger to Israeli democracy than another confrontation with Iran.

And he thinks replacing Netanyahu could be the first real opportunity to change course.

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Eli Clifton, the Quincy Institute analyst who co-wrote Israel’s Lobby, tracked more than $84 million spent through AIPAC’s super PAC, the United Democracy Project, and found $55.3 million of it, nearly two thirds, went into races that lost, a collapse from its usual success rate of well over 66%.

The biggest single target was Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, where more than $22 million was spent against him and he still won.

Eli found over 90% of the $50,000-plus donors behind that money came from outside the state, with Republican megadonors Paul Singer and Jan Koum the two largest.

The war was the headwind AIPAC couldn’t spend its way past.

The lobby spent 20 years cheerleading it, and voters felt the bill at the gas pump and the grocery store… which means the money didn’t just lose, it bought the thing that beat it.

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Countries that got hit include:

🇺🇸U.S: Federal prosecutors busted a $373 million insider SIM-swap ring in Dallas, while a Florida firm had $6.5 million wiped out in 15 unauthorized wires.

🇹🇼Taiwan: Hackers exploited vendor flaws to pull $1.3 million from 418 SinoPac accounts in a single day. They targeting users who weren’t logged in.

🇰🇷South Korea: Breaches hit 37 financial institutions, exposing 473,000 customer records.

🇧🇷Brazil: Central bank logged a record 99 cyber incidents over 9 months, with 68 tied directly to fraud.

🇯🇵Japan: Phone scammers posing as bank representatives conned Yamagata businesses out of more than $6.1 million.

Bank robbery is becoming the top criminal remote job.

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Nate Silver, the data guru who correctly predicted 50 out of 50 states in the 2012 presidential election, has floated a stunning possibility: Trump could leave the White House before his term ends.

Speaking on his podcast, Silver described a “weird intuition” that Trump might find an excuse to quit as his political influence fades.

Silver admits it’s an intuition rather than a formal prediction.

But can anyone seriously imagine Trump voluntarily walking away from power?

Source: Still Counting Podcast Writer: Naz