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Mainstream media reports on how unhinged Donald Trump is becoming concentrate on his efforts to overturn the U.S. election and on his pardons, but don’t pay enough attention to his threats toward Iran.

“$600 for you, $500,000,000 to Israel.” When the COVID-19 relief bill in the Congress began circulating many commentators, including in the mainstream, have jumped on the fact that the massive legislation is bundled alongside other appropriations that include $500 million in military aid to Israel.

The New York Times finally apologized for false reporting on jihadism by Rukmini Callimachi, who “has a pattern of outsourcing much of her analysis to terrorologists such as those at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and its spinoffs.” But Callimachi was supplying what the NYT wanted.

The latest Trump move to bribe an Arab nation into “recognizing” Israel means practically even less than the first 3 “normalizations” — but could inflame a smoldering colonial conflict some 4000 miles to the west of Tel Aviv.

Neera Tanden’s high-level nomination to OMB under Joe Biden is in trouble — partly because her think tank the center for American Progress received UAE millions and then may have toned down its criticism, including of the Saudi murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

“The operation that killed Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was a dazzling piece of covert work,” the Washington Post says, in a grotesque glorification of Israel’s murder of Iranian scientist. While the NYT suggests using unnamed sources that Iran had a secret nuclear weapons program, when US intelligence reported otherwise.

The dominant message on US cables is that Iran has pursued a nuclear weapon, thereby justifying the Israeli assassination. This is dishonest. And when Tom Friedman rationalized Israeli assassination by saying that Iran is the regional aggressor, he was promptly eviscerated by commenters in his own paper.

Israel has a hidden motive to kill Iranian nuclear scientist: to destroy any possibility of Joe Biden renewing the Iran deal, and “cripple” his ability to make policy. But you can’t say this inside the Beltway.

A nuclear scientist was just assassinated inside Iran, probably by Israel with Trump administration connivance — but, so far, the New York Times is distorting the news.