Israelis held a rally last week that focused on the future of Gaza and top government officials who attended said it was clear that U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse the enclave is the most viable and what they supported.
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TRUMP APPROVES ANOTHER $4 BILLION IN ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL, INVOKES ‘EMERGENCY AUTHORITIES’
U.S. President Donald Trump invoked his “emergency authority” to bypass Congress and approve another $4 billion in weapon sales to Israel, which will provide Tel Aviv with 35,529 2,000 MK 84 bombs and 4,000 I-2000 Penetrator warheads, according to a statement from the State Department.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION GIVES ISRAEL ‘GREEN LIGHT’ TO VIOLATE CEASEFIRE DEAL: OK FOR IDF TO REMAIN IN LEBANON
Israel Katz, the Israeli defense head and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loyalist, said the Trump administration approved of Tel Aviv’s plans to keep troops in the southern region of Lebanon, violating his country’s ceasefire with Hezbollah.
ISRAEL CARRIES OUT NEW STRIKES ACROSS SYRIA, SAYS IT WILL NOT ALLOW COUNTRY TO BECOME ANOTHER LEBANON
Israel Katz, the head of the IDF, confirmed Israeli strikes across southern Syria last week and said Tel Aviv will not allow the region to become like “southern Lebanon.”
ISRAEL SAYS MILITARY OPTION AGAINST IRAN MAY BE NEEDED
Gideon Saar, the Israeli foreign minister, said in an interview last week that Israel may have to confront Iran militarily to prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon—and it will look to U.S. President Donald Trump for support.
AFTER ISRAEL VIOLATES CEASEFIRE DEAL, IDF BLOCKS ENTRY OF ALL HUMANITARIAN AID TO GAZA
Al Jazeera reported Sunday that Israel banned humanitarian aid into Gaza until Hamas agrees to its new terms and extends Phase 1 of the deal, which ended on Saturday. Hamas called Israel’s move a “war crime and a blatant attack,” the Associated Press reported.
TRUMP’S FIRST MONTH PANDERS TO ISRAEL
The Trump Administration, in place for only a little over three weeks, has gone full speed ahead in its advocacy for Israel. Donald Trump’s invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit him at the White House...
IRAN ACCUSES ISRAEL OF BEING THE BIGGEST SOURCE OF INSTABILITY IN THE REGION
A top Iranian official penned a letter to the UN Security Council last week that accused Israel of leveling allegations against Tehran in part of a concerted effort to distract the body from its own crimes and “destructive activities” that had put the region on the brink.
WHAT COMES NEXT ON THE GREATER ISRAEL AGENDA?
The eminent Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus in a biography of his illustrious father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agrippa famously wrote “Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.”
TRUMP’S STATE DEPARTMENT FREEZES FOREIGN AID EXCEPT FOR ISRAEL, EGYPT, UKRAINE
U.S. President Donald Trump, who tries to bill himself as an “America First” leader, had his State Department freeze aid for all countries so these payments can be audited—except for Israel, Egypt, and Ukraine, reports said, citing a leaked internal memo.