Sixty miles of new wall built on Arizona border with hundreds more expected by end of 2020. Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan says every mile counts to keep America safer.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday to “calm down” after Nasrallah said his movement was preparing a response to the crash of two Israeli drones in a Beirut suburb.
In a speech on Sunday, Nasrallah accused Israel of carrying out an attack with an exploding drone earlier that day.
“I say to the Israeli army on the border from tonight, stand guard (on high alert). Wait for us one, two, three, four days,” said Nasrallah, whose movement last waged a major war against Israel in 2006.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says a meeting with President Trump would be a mere photo-op unless sanctions are lifted on Tehran first.
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Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa appeared to say that Israel attacked Iranian targets in recent days in “self-defense.”
Khalifa tweeted on Monday that “Iran is the one who has declared war on us,” which seemed to be a response to earlier comments by Lebanese President Michel Aoun and an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq that reported Israeli strikes on their countries were a declaration of war.
He also said that the one who strikes their piles of arms “is not to blame. It is self-defense.”
Khalifa mentioned that Iran is using its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in addition to Hezbollah, militias in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen, to launch war.

The US State Department website has dropped “Palestinian Territories” from its list of countries and areas in the Middle East.
It is unknown when the listing was removed. The Trump administration has been denying the change.
“You can ask Mike Pompeo,” said US President Donald Trump when asked by a reporter at the Group of Seven, or G7, meetings in Biarritz, France, over whether removing the Palestinian Authority from the department’s website was “conducive” to the administration’s peace initiative.
“The website is being updated,” a State Department official told JNS. “There’s been no change to our policy.”

Iran has sentenced a British–Iranian national to 10 years in jail for spying for Israel, state TV reported on Tuesday.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said last year that Western agents had infiltrated the country, and its relations with major world powers deteriorated as Washington pulled out of the nuclear deal they signed with Tehran in 2015.
Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili named the jailed dual–national as Anousheh Ashouri. Ashouri was sentenced to 10 years for spying for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, and two years for “acquiring illegitimate wealth,” Esmaili said.
It was not possible to contact Ashouri, and it was not immediately clear if the sentences were concurrent or consecutive.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to extend the term of Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon until the end of the year, Israeli media sources reported on Tuesday. Danon has held the position since October of 2015.
The post was offered recently to Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and former Education Minister Naftali Bennet, but both rejected the offer.
It is believed in Israeli political circles that Erdan may intend to run for the leadership of the Likud Party should Netanyahu fail to form a government after Israel’s Sept. 17 election, according to a report in Arutz 7.
Netanyahu may now offer the position to Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis, according to the report.
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A Jewish man in his mid-60’s was viciously attacked with a rock as he exercised in a Crown Heights park Tuesday morning.
The victim was hospitalized due to his injuries, his family informed COLlive. “He sustained a head injury which required 3 staples, a broken nose, as well as suffered a bruised leg and the loss of two teeth,” they said.
The NYPD Hate Crimes division is on the scene and conducting an investigation.
Read more at COLLIVE.
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Israel relayed a message of de-escalation to Lebanon through U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, according to Lebanese media reports.
The message comes in the wake of a reported Israeli drone strike on Hezbollah assets in Beirut and bombing of a base belonging to a Hezbollah-affiliated Palestinian terrorist group in Lebanon on Sunday. Israel also struck Iranian assets in Syria overnight Saturday, killing at least two Hezbollah operatives.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun denounced the attacks as “a declaration of war” and raised the issue with the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Ján Kubiš, his office said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party is pressuring two smaller right-wing parties to drop out of the Sept. 17 national election, according to Israeli media reports. Neither of the two parties—Otzma Yehudit and Zehut—is expected to gain enough votes to enter the Knesset, and the Likud is seeking to prevent right-wing votes from being wasted.
Likud negotiator Natan Eshel has reportedly pressured Otzma Yehudit Party leader Itamar Ben-Gvir to drop out of the race, while Likud officials are said to have offered Zehut leader Moshe Feiglin an economy-related ministry position, to cover all of his campaign costs to date and legalize personal use of marijuana—one of Zehut’s central campaign promises—if his party withdraws.