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For the first time in history, the United States on Monday established an official, permanent military base in Israel: an air defense base in the heart of the Negev desert. Dozens of US Air Force soldiers will call home the new base, located inside the Israeli Air Force's Mashabim Air Base, west of the towns of Dimona and Yerucham.
Liberal Jewish groups condemned the appointment of US President Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser on Wednesday, casting him as an Islamophobic warmonger who would pose a danger to the security of the United States and Israel. The six organizations charged that former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Boltin is "an unrepentant defender of the Iraq war and his bellicose ideology could very well start us down the path to another unnecessary war of choice."