Israel at war day 514
- US State Department: US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff plans to arrive in the region in the coming days. Witkoff will work on extending Phase A of the Israel-Hams hostage deal or moving to Phase B."
- N12: If there is no agreement on the release of hostages and the continuation of the ceasefire in the coming days - Israel will return to fighting as early as next week.
The assessment in Israel among the top political echelon is a return to war within 10 days if there are no agreements with Hams. A senior American government official gave Israel a message about Hams: "Kill them all. To the last one of them. Hams is an obstacle to normalization." (AmitSegal)
- Netanyahu with a message to Hamas: "If you do not release our hostages, there will be consequences that you cannot imagine. We are preparing for the next stages of the campaign; not everything is public knowledge - which is a good thing."
- Reuters: The Egyptian alternative to the Trump plan, which will be presented tomorrow at a summit in Cairo, includes a plan that will replace the Hams government with temporary bodies controlled by Arab countries and Western elements
- Contrary to the claims of the Deir al-Balah municipality, which accuses Israel of disconnecting electricity at two desalination plants, there was no disconnection, and there is a localized fault in the facility
- PM Netanyahu in the Knesset: "We are preparing for the next stages of the War of Rebirth. We will not stop until we achieve all the goals of victory. We will return all the hostages; we have already returned 199. In the current deal, we returned 25 hostages alive, twice the number that Hams wanted in the negotiations - which it ultimately torpedoed. You (the opposition) don't tell the families of the hostages that."
- Terrorist stabbing attack in Chaifa, Israel
1 Dead a 70 year old arab man , 3 Seriously Injured 1 Moderately Injured. The terrorist was shot dead by a security guard. He was a 20-year-old Druze from Shfaram, who lived in Germany.
The Druze issued a statement are “He moved to Shfaram a year ago. He lives in Germany, and he needs to be checked to see if he has connected with Islamist elements in Germany. He cannot be buried in Shfaram, and no one will attend the funeral; he is neither Israeli nor Druze for us. We cannot allow anyone to harm the life alliance of the Druze and the Jews”.
-- Israeli officials told The New York Times that they believe Hamas would likely be willing to give up only a small number of hostages or dead hostages without any guarantees to end the war.
- Houthi senior leader said today Israel must understand that the return of the war in Gaza means the return of the Houthis' military operations in full.
Two incidents today in the Gaza Strip: The IDF attacked a suspicious vessel in the sea area off the coast of Deir al-Balah in the center of the Gaza Strip. At the same time, two suspects who were moving towards IDF forces in the Rafah area in the southern Gaza Strip were shot and killed by the troops.
- Seven released hostages are flying to Washington to meet with US government officials, ro "express their gratitude to the Trump administration for the president’s unwavering commitment to bringing all the hostages home and will provide firsthand testimony about the horrors of Hamas’ tunnels,"
- The European Union opposes the Israeli decision to prevent the entry of aid trucks into the Gaza Strip: This will lead to serious consequences for the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. We call for the rapid resumption of negotiations on the second phase of the deal and support the mediators. A permanent ceasefire will help in the release of the Israeli hostages and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
Does anyone actually take the EU seriously when it comes to protecting Jewish communities?
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DeleteThree Germans killed and more wounded in Munchen today by a driver in no-car area of town. Police not releasing name or nationality of driver, meaning Muslim.
the Zionists are not going to beat Hamas while they themselves negotiate with them, we are unlucky in this dor that we have this temporary entity in our midst.
ReplyDeleteTrump's strategy is to make America strong by favoring American industry. Good policy.
ReplyDeleteAlso there will be a European army other than NATO. This is his policy. It will be the new Europe army, not NATO, to job to hold back the Soviets. Congress will approve because it wont't be us via NATO. Four power world. US, Russia, Europe an China. I am sure Trump would say that.
Of course this things have a cost up front. 1) diminishing of America power because we got involved in wars everywhere on the globe. America had major supremacy at sea and not the British, French and possibly Dutch will rebuild. It is the 17th century over again to some extent, more than the other periods anyone else pinned it to; 2) more inflation because of tariffs, 3) and people are perceiving a threat to the republic because of the speed at which he is moving, which may be good as long as constitution, is the supreme law, higher than the government.
I guess that the new world order will be America the most powerful county, but not the leader of the free world. I still say the old world order was better. I think America is different and can lead the world in peace. Oppenheimer and all the scientists, held that as long as America leads the world, there will not be WWIII. That is the old world order. and it ended last Friday Shame it came to an end. America will just be the backstop, in Europe, like it was in WWI and WWII, no longer there to deter war, but to come in for WWIII. Shame Republicans got rid of the nukes in Europe (Reagan) and now we are going to see proliferation as every country wants to be safe from Russia, and nuclear weapons will do fine, Russia won't be deterred by American power because the US will just be a backstop. As for Trump kissing up to Putin, America will profit because Putin will pay to save face. He was their worse president. He got Russia totally isolated, which never before happened in history under the Czars or Commies. But it is really bad for America because in only four years there will be a different president. The Russians are modern Scythians and the Scythians that ruled the steppes today as in the past, a huge force in Europe.Britain and France together, and Germany, will balance them. But all the little countries will demand the right to build nukes.
I should have mentioned that Trump should tell Putin that deal will be off if he does not get his tenticles out of America. Deport, deport, deport includes anyone with any connection to Putin. KGB all in one man. Pathetic. Small fry. There is going to be an arms race in Europe, maybe in four years, it depends more on the US president than the Commie president,. Anyway, the shift in the world order was clear when the King met with Zelenskyy (Britain will rebuild its navy) and all their presidents and prime ministers agreed to provide troops and possibly a continental army. How American! Historic moment. Took me a long time to figure out Trump's policy. It's so discombobulated like Lakewood and yet pashut.
ReplyDeleteMan up & stop your oh so last generation lullaby.Skip pretending it was idyllic till now.It was a lousy slow downward drip of American strength.
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