David Milstein, the stepson of Fox News’s pro-Zionist fanatic Mark Levin, who is Ambassador Mike Huckabee’s top aide in Israel, faced scrutiny for reportedly killing diplomatic reports that would have put Israel in an unfavorable light, The New York Times reported last week.
Just weeks before the Israeli elections that are considered too close to call, members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government have been trying to rush through tenders for E1 settlements in the occupied West Bank that would greatly expand the “settler” footprint in the territory and essentially snuff out any chance of the two-state solution.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, defended Israel in an X post last week that accused a “Muslim Brotherhood’s Qatari-funded global propaganda campaign” of trying to spread the lie that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.
A top Trump administration official warned countries that level sanctions against Israel over the abuses it allows in the West Bank by so-called settlers on the Palestinian population will face reciprocal tariffs by the U.S., according to a report in The Telegraph.
The IDF has built 32 military outposts inside Gaza that Tel Aviv insists are necessary to watch over the rubble left after over two years of genocide, and the forces now control about 70 percent of the enclave – a jump from the 53 percent that it controlled when the ceasefire was announced in October 2025.
Last week marked the year anniversary of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, which did little to relieve Palestinians crammed inside the enclave who still must deal with IDF troops razing buildings, shooting civilians, and encroaching on the territory.
Israel killed at least 74,382 Palestinians and injured over 175,000 since the start of the genocide in October 2023.
Avi Gil, the former IDF major-general, said in an interview last week that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intentionally avoided a hostage deal with Hamas for political reasons and that he believed it was a mistake not to put politics aside, according to a report.
Eyal Zamir, the IDF chief of staff, said last week that a return to war with Iran could potentially postpone the upcoming Israeli election that could jeopardize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on power, according to a report.