At a military base in northern Israel, the Israeli Defense Ministry and leading defense industries provided a glimpse on Sunday at the battlefield of the future.
The concept that they unveiled—called the Carmel combat vehicle—is a response to three years of planning solutions to the asymmetric, Middle Eastern warfare conditions taking shape.
These modern challenges include hidden enemy cells, embedded in built-up areas, which fire missiles from residential buildings. Such cells send explosive drones hurling into advancing military forces, and pop out of tunnels to open fire and vanish. Such cells surround areas in Gaza and Lebanon that are packed with rockets aimed at Israeli cities, forming “rings” around rocket-launch zones.

FedEx is ending its ground delivery partnership with Amazon, FedEx said on Wednesday, news that comes as Amazon moves to expand its own delivery network.
“This change is consistent with our strategy to focus on the broader e-commerce market, which the recent announcements related to our FedEx Ground network have us positioned extraordinarily well to do,” FedEx said in a statement.
Amazon, meanwhile, has been expanding its delivery fleet of vans, trucks and planes. The online retail giant made up less than 1.3 percent of FedEx’s revenue last year, according to Reuters.
Read more at The Hill.
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Iran asked UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday to push back against the United States after it imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, describing the move as a “a dangerous precedent.”
In a letter to Guterres, Iran‘s UN Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi accused the United States of a “brazen violation of the fundamental principles of international law” and urged the international community to condemn the US behavior.
“Coercing nations into complying with the United States’ illegal demands threatens multilateralism, as the foundation of international relations, and sets a dangerous precedent, paving the way for those who aspire to rather divide, not unite, nations,” he wrote.

Frank Figluizzi, an NBC News national security contributor, said during an appearance on MSNBC Tuesday night that President Trump erred in ordering flags to be flown at half mast because of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, because of the importance of Aug. 8 to white supremacists.
Figluizzi, a former FBI assistant director of counterintelligence, said Trump’s move would result in flags being raised again at dusk on Aug. 8.
“The numbers 88 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement. Why? Because the letter ‘H’ is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and to them the numbers 88 together stand for ‘Heil Hitler.’ So we’re going to be raising the flag back up at dusk on 8/8,” Figluizzi added.

President Trump called 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s Wednesday afternoon speech “Sooo boring!”
“Watching Sleepy Joe Biden making a speech,” the president tweeted. “Sooo Boring! The LameStream Media will die in the ratings and clicks with this guy. It will be over for them, not to mention the fact that our Country will do poorly with him. It will be one big crash, but at least China will be happy!”
During his speech, Biden linked the president’s rhetoric to mass shooters and white supremacists in El Paso, Texas, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Pittsburgh.
“How far is it from Trump’s saying this ‘is an invasion’ to the shooter in El Paso declaring his attack is a response to the ‘Hispanic invasion of Texas?’ Not far at all,” the former vice president said.

A food truck in Miami was vandalized last week with spray-painted swastikas.
Miami Police received a report at around 4 pm that the Bao Wow Burgers Bruh food truck, in the town of Little Haiti, was marked with the antisemitic Nazi symbol. Police confirmed that detectives are investigating the vandalism.
The truck’s Jewish co-owner, Alex Ovadia, told Florida’s WPLG Local 10 news that although the food truck has not yet officially opened for business, it has been targeted by vandals before.

Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday he was surprised by media criticism of his wife’s decision to teach art at a school with devout Christian beliefs, and said he’s gotten lots of practice in forgiving his critics.
“As a Christian believer we’re charged to pray for our loved ones, but also pray for our enemies. You have lots of opportunities in politics to do that,” Mr. Pence said.
Pence said that as a politician he faces a lot of attacks, and had several pieces of advice.
“No. 1 is, spend more time on your knees than on the internet,” he said, adding, “Forgiveness is a great gift.”
Read more at Washington Times.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept through seven work sites in six cities across Mississippi on Wednesday, arresting approximately 680 “illegal aliens” in what officials said is the largest single-state workplace enforcement action in U.S. history.
The raids targeted agricultural processing plants, part of a year-long investigation into illegal immigrant employment in the state, officials said. They did not say how many individuals they were targeting in the operations, nor what proportion of those taken into custody were what ICE calls “collateral” arrests – those who were swept up along with those ICE was seeking.

Walmart employees are planning to walk out of the company’s corporate offices to protest gun sales Wednesday.
White-collar employees at the company’s offices in California and Oregon are protesting in the wake of a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, over the weekend that took the lives of 22 people, according to the Washington Post. No Walmart employees were killed, but two received treatment for injuries.
“There’s an intense irony that Walmart continues to sell guns despite the constant shootings in its stores,” said Kate Kesner, a California employee that is helping organize the walkout.
Read more at Washington Examiner.
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Signs of main streets in Tel Aviv were replaced overnight in protest of what some feel is Israel’s weak policy against Hamas and Arab terror.
Among the new streets are The Sderot Boulevard, Red Alert Road, Hamas Road and another named after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.