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Malka Leifer declared fit to stand trial

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/274332

 Malka Leifer, a former Australian educator accused of sexually abusing minors at a haredi school in Melbourne, has been declared fit to stand trial, after having been previously determined to be mentally unfit.

The decision was announced Thursday afternoon by a three-member psychiatric panel which had been assembled at the order of the Jerusalem District Court last September, after a medical committee found evidence that Leifer had faked mental illness in order to avoid being placed on trial or extradited to Australia, where she is wanted for 74 charges of sexual abuse against minors.

The intel that helped US absorb Iran's attack - ALL IS WELL?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/274325

 NYT says US intel exposed Tehran revenge plan for Soleimani killing, military evacuated troops to safety and missiles only hit empty hangars

Ukraine wants to search Iran plane crash site for possible Russia missile debris

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-wants-to-search-iran-plane-crash-site-for-possible-russia-missile-debris/

A senior security official in Ukraine said Thursday that investigators want to search the site where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Iran the day before for possible debris of a Russian missile, and said there had been a reference online to the existence of such debris.

 

Inside Classified Briefing: Trump Admin Calls Checks On War Powers 'Disrespecting Our Troops’

Rand Paul fires back at Lindsey Graham: That's a low, gutter type response

GOP senator slams Iran briefing: It was insulting

Trump Lies About Iran Crisis, Blames Obama: A Closer Look

12AM - Tucker Carlson Tonight 1/9/20 | Fox News Today January 9, 2020

Trump Says 'Iran Appears to Be Standing Down.' But History Suggests That Might Not Be So Simple

https://time.com/5761483/iran-retaliation/

U.S. President Trump told reporters Wednesday that there were no casualties. While that presents the Trump Administration an off-ramp from the warpath, a closer look at Iran’s history of respondings to its enemies’ aggression suggests it’s too early to say whether this is, in fact, the end of its retaliatory moves.

Codenamed “Operation Martyr Qasem Soleimani”, Iran’s fusillade of more than a dozen rockets struck Al Asad Air Base in Iraq’s Anbar province. Another barrage beginning at about 1:30 am local time hit an airbase in northern Iraq’s Erbil. U.S. and European government sources familiar with intelligence assessments told Reuters on Wednesday they believed Iran had deliberately sought to avoid U.S. military casualties.

 

“Iran took & concluded proportionate measures in self-defense under Article 51 of UN Charter,” the Republic’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter soon after the strike. He added that Iran did not seek “escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression.”

“Iran appears to be standing down,” Trump said during a short address at the White House on Wednesday morning. He also boasted of the U.S. military strength and said he would immediately impose further sanctions on Iran.

But in a Twitter post issued only hours after Zarif’s, Iran’s Supreme Leader Khameini seemed to contradict his foreign minister, casting doubt on whether Iran’s retaliation has indeed concluded. “[The Americans] were slapped last night, but such military actions are not enough,” he said.

Uri Geller offers UK govt his 'psychic powers' in job bid

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/274278

Urii Geller revealed Wednesday he has applied to work for the British government after Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief adviser called for "weirdos and misfits" to apply for jobs.

In an application sent to Johnson's unorthodox top aide Dominic Cummings - the senior Brexit strategist depicted in the 2019 film Brexit: The Uncivil War - the British-Israeli spoon-bender offered up the use of his "genuine psychic powers".

 

Why Europe hates Trump more than Iran

https://www.politico.eu/article/why-europe-hates-trump-more-than-iran/

Reckless, illegal, unhinged.

When it comes to finding adjectives to describe U.S. President Donald Trump’s assassination of Iranian military guru Qassem Soleimani, which prompted the Iranians to respond by launching missile attacks on bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops overnight, European officials have displayed rare unity. At least in private.

Behind the sober public pronouncements from Brussels and national capitals about the need for “de-escalation,” officials are seething.