The Israeli government last week handed out ATVs (all-terrain vehicles) and other equipment to assist with the expanding “settler movement” in the country that has been running roughshod over the West Bank as much of the world’s attention has been focused on the genocide unfolding in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to intensify his military’s operation inside Gaza under the auspices of retrieving the remaining 50 hostages still held by Hamas, as pressure mounts inside Israel for him to end the genocide.
Israelis are beginning to ask themselves: How much is too much in Gaza?
In January, just days before Donald Trump was to be inaugurated, a ceasefire was announced that was to include phases—breathing hope into the president-elect’s claim that he was going to be a president for peace.
Nineteen former security officials in Israel—from ex-IDF officials to Mossad directors—released a video that said the military operations inside Gaza should have come to a conclusion and said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government should agree to a permanent ceasefire with Hamas to end the war in return for the remaining 50 hostages.
President Donald Trump announced last week that Japan agreed to invest $550 billion into the U.S. for various projects that he will direct, and Washington will keep 90 percent of any profits, which was part of the recently announced trade deal.
An unnamed source told The Wall Street Journal that the White House wants to use Columbia’s recent $221 settlement over antisemitism allegations to be the blueprint of how to deal with other colleges under investigation with the top prize being Harvard, which is reportedly expected to be on the hook for even more money.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s national security council, and Sen. Lindsey Graham exchanged messages on X Tuesday in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to shorten Russia’s deadline to end the war to 10-12 days before Washington increases its support for Ukraine with weapons packages and secondary sanctions on countries that trade with Russia.
The death toll in Gaza surpassed 60,000 on Tuesday as the IDF continued its killing spree across the destroyed enclave—with the full backing of the Trump administration. Health officials also reported that at least 145,870 people have been injured in the war.
President Donald Trump fully supported Israel’s decision to abandon the ceasefire deal in March that enabled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ramp up his starvation campaign inside the enclave—likely at the expense of the remaining Israeli hostages still in Hamas captivity, Haaretz, an Israeli paper, said.