Herzi Halevi, the former Israeli army commander, addressed a meeting last week in southern Israel about Gaza and told those in attendance that the IDF fought inside the enclave with its “gloves off” and was not slowed by legal concerns, resulting in more than 200,000 Palestinian casualties since October 2023.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Israel on Sunday and the two prayed together at the Western Wall in Jerusalem amid a show of friendship, even as Israel carries out a genocide in Gaza and an attack on Qatar, which has a close relationship with the U.S.
Israel Katz, the genocide loving Israeli defense minister, said last week that there is nowhere that an enemy of his country can seek refuge that he is out of reach from the IDF—insinuating that regional countries should be on notice after the brazen strike on Doha intended to kill Hamas negotiators.
The Wall Street Journal tried its best to present Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a leader who is exhausted trying to achieve a diplomatic end to his country’s paranoid aggression in the Middle East by running a headline: “Qatar Strike Shows Netanyahu is Done Talking.”
Israel’s decision to carry out a bombing attack on Hamas negotiators in Doha was the latest example of how Tel Aviv has never been interested in a diplomatic resolution to the Gaza genocide to obtain its hostages still in Hamas possession, WSWS said in a report.
U.S. President Donald Trump gave an interview earlier this month where he repeated his previous claim that no president in history has done more for Israel, while warning that the influence of the pro-Israel lobby is waning in Washington, D.C.
Mike Huckabee, the evangelical pro-genocide extremist playing the role of U.S. ambassador to Israel, said in an interview on Friday that the Zionist Trump administration would not stand in the way when Israel moves to annex the West Bank, despite international law.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a security cabinet meeting last week that U.S. President Donald Trump encouraged him to go all out in Gaza and to avoid seeking “partial deals” with Hamas to receive some of the remaining 50 hostages—20 of whom are believed to be alive—still inside the enclave.
A $45 million advertising deal between Israel and Google allowed Tel Aviv to spread propaganda about conditions in Gaza while ramping up its genocide and starvation campaign inside the enclave, according to reports.