For now, links to reports from Reuters and Middle East Eye and to analyses from MintPress News via ScheerPost and from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s WEST BANK, MEDIA, LEBANON and IRAN so far, and down for GAZA 6-6-26.) — MCM

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Israel kills nine in Gaza as Egypt hosts new ceasefire talks, by Nidal al-Mughrabi | Reuters  CAIRO — Israeli strikes on a Hamas-run police station and a vehicle in the Gaza Strip killed at least nine people and wounded 20 others today, health officials said, as mediators began new efforts to salvage ‌a fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal. READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 6  Pentagon raises alarm over Israel’s ‘unhinged’ spying on U.S. officials, by Elis Gjevori | Middle East Eye  The Pentagon has raised Israel’s counterintelligence threat level to its highest category, NBC News and the New York Times reported on Saturday, exposing behind the scenes tensions in a relationship Washington often treats as untouchable. READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 2  NDAA: New U.S. bill would fuse Israel and U.S. militaries into one, by Alan MacLeod | MintPress News / ScheerPost  Amid widespread and growing public opposition to the Israeli genocide of Gaza and South Lebanon, a controversial new bill seeks to formally integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries like never before, making it difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. READ MORE . . .

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FROM MAY 29  Congress quietly moves to integrate U.S. and Israeli militaries, by Ben Freeman | Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft  Buried in the House’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act  released on May 26, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” READ MORE . . .

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