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The saga, both tedious and horrifying, of Trump's refusal to accept failure in the presidential elections was interrupted by other news on Friday: the assassination, on a Tehran street, of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of Iran's nuclear weapons program.

Chuck Freilich writes that Israel was justified in killing Iran's atomic chief: "the world is a better place for it." But the crucial question is whether it was a smart move, right now. He is more than skeptical.

In contrast, a trio of Mideast experts, Steven Simon, Joshua Landis and Aiman Mansour argue that assassinations and sanctions aren't working: America and Israel need a new strategy on Iran – and they offer a non-violent alternative, one that calls on Israel's new Gulf friends to step up.

Etan Nechin explores how America and Israel's right wing have hijacked the term 'pro-Israel' – and how that struggle could determine who wins Georgia's runoffs, and control of the Senate.

Anshel Pfeffer explains why Mike Pompeo is the 'Messiah of the BDS movement,' Eric Yoffie entreats Israel not to hail Jonathan Pollard as a returning hero, and Jonah Nelson unearths the story of the rabbi co-opted by Virginia to keep its ban on interracial marriage alive.

And ICYMI: I wrote about what it's like to go to bed with Donald Trump every night.

Protesters gather during a demonstration against the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, in Tehran, Iran, November 28, 2020

Killing Iran's Nuclear Weapons Chief Was Justified. But It Wasn't Wise

Chuck Freilich | 30.11.2020

The coffin of Iran's assassinated top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh during his funeral procession in the northeastern city of Mashhad. November 29, 2020

Assassinations and Sanctions Aren’t Working: Why America and Israel Need a New Iran Strategy

Steven Simon, Joshua Landis, Aiman Mansour | 30.11.2020

Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump wave Israeli and US national flags on the day of the U.S. presidential election, in Carmiel, northern Israel, November 3, 2020.

'Pro-Israel': How a Term Hijacked by the Right Could Decide Who Controls the U.S. Senate

Etan Nechin | 26.11.2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: He knows the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement against Israel is an illusion. But he also knows 'fighting BDS' is profitable, financially and politically

Mike Pompeo, Messiah of the BDS Movement

Anshel Pfeffer | 26.11.2020

Jonathan Pollard leaving U.S. district court in the Manhattan borough of New York, November 20, 2015.

Netanyahu Must Not Hail Pollard as Israel’s Spy Hero

Eric H. Yoffie | 23.11.2020

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman riding in a carriage during a welcome ceremony in Islamabad. February 18, 2019

How Saudi Arabia Is Pressuring Pakistan to Recognize Israel

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid | 22.11.2020

Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Menachem Begin as U.S. president Jimmy Carter looks on in Camp David, September 1978.

How Carter, Begin and Sadat Helped End Bosnia's Bloody War

Hamza Karcic | 29.11.2020

Laying wreaths in Yad Vashem's Hall of Remembrance ahead of the formal Holocaust Memorial Day ceremonies. 16 April 2014

Yad Vashem Is Selling Its Soul to Shady Right-wing Racists and Populists

Moshe Zimmerman, Shimon Stein | 23.11.2020

Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, June 12, 1967

The Rabbi Hijacked by Virginia to Keep America's ‘Racial Purity Law’ Alive

Jonah Nelson | 22.11.2020

'The call to find common emotional ground intersection with spiking Biden-win denialism by Trump voters. The message was: Hug the people who want to disenfranchise you'

No, You Do Not Have to Feel the Trump Voter's Pain

Esther Solomon | 22.11.2020

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