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Netanyahu or Bennett? The quiet battle inside the White House

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Witkoff and Kushner on one side, Rubio and Huckabee on the other: beneath the surface, the US administration is divided over who should be Israel’s next prime minister. There was one moment in the Knesset speech on the day the war ended that particularly troubled Likud. It happened when the president spontaneously praised Yair Lapid. “He’s a nice guy,” he said to Netanyahu and then jabbed the prime minister: “You don’t need to be so tough now that the war is over.” Was this a hint that the president intends, God forbid, to adopt neutrality in the upcoming election. Continue reading Netanyahu or Bennett? The quiet battle inside the White House→

New York’s Billionaires Are Bending the Knee to Zohran Mamdani

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Chiefest among these converts is billionaire hedge fund mogul Bill Ackman, who famously contributed nearly $2 million of his own money to efforts to kill Mamdani’s candidacy. I read the Pershing Square Capital boss’s tweet on Tuesday night at-ing Mamdani: “Congrats on the win. Now you have a big responsibility. If I can help NYC, just let me know what I can do.” Elsewhere in the world of high finance, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who previously called Mamdani “more a Marxist than a socialist” and slammed him as pushing “ideological mush that means nothing in the real world,” is also. Continue reading New York’s Billionaires Are Bending the Knee to Zohran Mamdani→