Monday, August 17, 2026

Iran Israel Updates Monday August 17

- Jared Kushner to Fox News: “We could see progress in Gaza within a month, hopefully we'll start removing some of the weapons, and hopefully we'll close some of the tunnels in the next three months"

- Trump: The number one Goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a Nuclear Weapon. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

- Trump on the upcoming elections in Israel: I think it's best for me not to get involved in it, but I might enforse someone.

- Trump said the Israelis should not be striking in Gaza because he says Hamas has agreed to lay down their weapons after that meeting yesterday in Egypt between senior Hamas leadership and Jared Kushner, along with the American mediators on the ground.

- Netanyahu: Gaza reconstruction  will not  begin until Hamas is disarmed. The Prime Minister’s Office says Israel and the Board of Peace agreed to establish a working group focused on the prompt disarmament and demilitarization of Gaza, to be completed before reconstruction begins. A second working group will address sanitation, clean water and other public-health issues affecting both Gaza and Israel.

- US-Iran MoU expires with no breakthroughs between Washington, Tehran. An Iranian official has claimed that no talks of an extension took place, that the United States violated the interim agreement just 48 hours after it was reached, and that it later withdrew from it.

- Trump: “There is a back channel with the IRGC. These are the hard-line officials inside of Iran, and the United States and officials in Washington are speaking directly with IRGC officials in Iran.” He said there is no timeline, so the 60-day window expiring today is largely irrelevant to the president's thinking on Iran. Again, he indicated the United States has a lot of mid-level weapons to use if they're needed in the future."

- Trump to Fox News: "Iran should raise a white flag and surrender. I have no timetable, I'm in no hurry." The president added that the midterm elections do not affect his decisions regarding Iran

- Iran reveals an “understanding” has been reached with Oman on a new Strait of Hormuz transit route.

-Senior Iranian official to Reuters: Tehran has decided to transition from a defensive policy to a full-fledged offensive policy. Iran has set a deadline of a few weeks to fully implement the memorandum of understanding with the United States.

- Israel officials are reporting that Netanyahu criticized Kushner for his meeting with Hamas leaders and emphasized that the security operations in Gaza will continue. After the meeting, Kushner and Mladenov met with President Herzog. According to the political source, the agreements reached stipulate: No reconstruction will be carried out in the Gaza Strip as a whole without the complete disarmament of Hamas; The first step towards disarming the Strip is that Hamas will hand over all its weapons for destruction under supervision; Maintaining the freedom of operation of the IDF and continuing the policy of preventative measures; Sanitation operations will be carried out in Gaza to prevent the spread of epidemics.

- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson on Ending 60-Day Ceasefire with the United States: “There is no clause in the text of the Memorandum of Understanding titled "60-Day Deadline." The Islamic Republic of Iran never formulates its policy under pressure, ultimatums, or time constraints. What was stipulated in the memorandum was a mere 60-day period for discussions on two issues: "Removal of Sanctions" and "The Nuclear Issue." With the possibility of extending this period. Due to the blatant and widespread violation of the June 18 Memorandum of Understanding by the United States, just a few weeks after its signing, the talks did not even begin. As a result, the issue of the 60-day deadline has completely lost its meaning."


28 comments:

  1. The British foreign office latest threat against all private donors who give from their own money to a Yeshiva or community beyond the Green Line, didn't just happen on its own.
    That twisted Brit on his rationalistjudaism substack and close knit comrades have been brainstorming for a while how to cut the pipeline from Chu"l.

    These left-liberal urban dati are doubly happy to destroy the settlement communities too.
    Till now, even the most secular chilonim had no problem with and was even begrudgingly impressed with any yeshiva that received all its last pennies from Chu"l, and didn't get it any funding from the government. Unfortunately that wasn't good enough for these these dati-types, so they can cooked up something to at least ruin anything and everything beyond the green line eg Kiryat Sefer;Beitar;Moshav Mattisyahu, You name it

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    1. Huh?
      Please translate.
      Better yet, drop it all

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    2. Though the most prominent resident of Moshav Matityahu was DL, and a talmid of Rav Aharon z"l, his talmidim regularly host is musical Hallel, and his musical slichot in two weeks.

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    3. For the feeble: the British government issued a threat to all those who donate to any institution beyond the green line - assuming you know what that is-they will lose tax exempt status.
      IMO the connection is not an accident & this didn't happen on its own. These sort rarely do.

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    4. The most prominent resident of Moshav Matityahu that I can think of is a very close talmid of Rav Gifter and not at all DL but he is a member of the rabbinical board of the OU.

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    5. 9:39 am,
      More prominent than R' Zev Leff?

      They're pleased to help destroy all types of community mosdos over the green line-except those in Efrat. At the worst it's collateral damage, at the best they can't stand the genuine charda"l
      [though they serve and suffer with alacrity in the IDF]
      as much or more than they can't stand charedim
      Kills two or more birds with one stone

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    6. Any proof that he was behind this policy, or you just dreamed it up, Mr. Cohen?

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    7. You have so much hate pouring out of you. Not the proper mehalich of a real ben Torah.

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    8. Circle,
      Who in the world are you talking about? Are you so mixed up?Or drunk? We are the lovers of Jews. Why else would we bother?!
      Like Pinchas & Eliyahu we keep on battery. And fighting some more. Because OUR END goal is the REAL Shalom. Even if it hasn't happened our lifetime.
      Mi She'hasholom Shelo

      At your convenience you're welcome to go on old substacks of that dati crowd: the hatred there is suffocating.

      Come join us!
      Btw we have a little problem joining with Chardal and those who are ehrliche of every demographic. cf.Tehillim 119:63
      Brisker Rav used to say: those who call themselves the greste ohavim (of Israeli/ worldwide jewry) are the Greste son'im!

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    9. Circle,
      he's providing his perspective on the news. What's the big deal

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    10. Ever wonder why we lain Chukas Balak together and Matos Massai together but Pinchas is never lained together with another parsha? Why is it skipped?
      A kanoi must be by himself. Once he is with others, the shaim shomayim is gone. Also, it must be spontaneous and not preplanned.
      Take a moment and think. Would you have the same feelings if it was your son doing these things? These are Hashem's children and as we see numerous times in Nach, Hashem wants us back, not punished.

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    11. No response was needed.
      Nonetheless..Mishlei 26:5

      typos
      -Battling
      -have little problem/no problem joining with in communal work

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  2. Like Pinchas & Eliyahu we keep on battery.Do you know why Hashem told Eliyohu that he no longer wants him to be a Navi? Do you constantly Daven for Kllal Yisroel even Rashyim like Eliyohu did? Are you also melemed zchus on klal yisreol even rasyim when talking to Hashem to the degree , that as Chazal said were the posuk not to have written what Eliyoyhu said it would be assur to say at all? With what else are you Pinchus and Eliyahu?

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    1. QED!
      Answers³: without doubt
      Colleagues say:too much

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  3. 5:15a.m.
    How about Dovid Hamelech who wrote quite a lot how much he hated sinners
    All you really wish is for his acquiescense for your inappropriate lifestyles
    Funny also how you folk always go after the same side? How about offer such challenges to the other side? Funny also how guys attack those frummer for being too narrow only concerned with their own.& will also attack frummer who are strongly concerned for those beyond?

    https://chananyaweissman.substack.com/p/tzohar-the-new-reform-movement?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3482295&post_id=211524037&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=12g2y3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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    1. Who are 'those guys'? Why can't some people stick to a point?

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    2. None,or virtually none, of those who fiercely attack forces of righteousness regularly over here are coming on their own-though they'll pretend and imagine they are. They're mostly parroting what they're being force-fed elsewhere.

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    3. 5:42am,
      a. cheap and classic catchphrases with purpose of lowering threshold for sin.
      Yet another riposte of Pat Moynihan's 'defining deviance down'.
      b.What have you ever done to bring them back?? Have you ever giving us a hand ?

      Shortly after the Maharil Bloch's einekel was born, he walked into the room and announced towards the infant: your goal in this world is to multiply Kavod Shamayim.If you're not able to fill the mission,better off if you wouldn't have been born.
      Thus our modus operandi.
      Concede,yours it isn't.

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    4. I have no doubt that the story with 'maharil bloch' whoever that is did not happen.
      And announcing things to newborn babies is pretty much useless. Not much of a Torah source at all.

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    5. 2:58, 5:15
      There you go again.
      You don't dare answer any question put back on you.What color kippa you wear? You're another fifth columnist who comes here to infiltrate?

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    6. 4:30 Calm down. Not everyone spends all his time online and is able to answer questions right away. I haven't been online since I posted those comments. If it makes you happy I wear a black yarmelka and learned in Brisk for three years. And BMG for more than ten. I'm saying things that are straight from chazal and you think I'm a fifth columnist who comes here to infiltrate? Infiltrate what?

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  4. 5:15,
    Wrong religion, buddy
    That's New testament: only those who never committed a sin,should throw the first stone.
    Not our religion

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    1. OK Very well. With all the attacks on me (that I expected-that crowd seems to only talk that way) no one answered my question. Why did Hashem tell Eliyohu HaNavi that he should move to Damascus and appoint Elisha as Navi instead because he is no longer interested in the Nevuah of Eliyohu? Does no one here know? I know it isn't written in kanoi literature but I would have thought some came across it independently.

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    2. אי איפשי בנביאותך מאחר שאתה מלמד קטיגוריא על בני Rashi, Melachim I 19:16

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    3. 5:27

      1)Yirmiyahu hated his unpopular job constantly verbally lashing the jews,& he was ordered from on High to keep on going.
      2)Ezra achieved his supreme role through separating proper jews from the miscreants.
      3)Somehow whenever Sin'as chinam is raised it is obscured the 8 examples of sinas chinam.1 of which is-NOT GIVING loud reproof to jewish communities
      4)Anybody who kept shabbos a century ago was according to you some kanoi'?Don't attempt that spin of authentic broad unabashed jews as being narrow "kanoi"


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    4. NB (1)I never met any kanoim who (a)hate verbally lashing other jews and (b) were given orders from up high to continue (2) OK. Opposing active secular influence on the frum world doesn't make someone a kanoi today either (3)if you (or I) had the opportunity to rebuke others in a way that had even a nominal chance of success I would be all for it. Saying they are terrible, we hate them is NOT tochacha.(4)I don't go with secular standards of what is considered a kanoi and consider them completely irrelevant.

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    5. Perhaps an Orwellian love = hate ?? Is it a sectoral-political franchised goose that keeps laying golden eggs? Unsure from where the self-serving harping of strawman notional 'hate' comes into this. Since you're desperately searching for it, are you on the wrong site?

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