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🔤🔤🔤🔤2️⃣ Reuven Hazan, a political science professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said that Netanyahu clearly wanted to give voters time to be distracted by other pressing matters. “And hopefully for him, the people of Israel are stupid enough and short enough of memory that they won’t remember all of this,” Hazan said. Yohanan Plesner, president of the Israel Democracy Institute, said he believed Netanyahu wanted time for the Israeli public to vent its rage over a new ultra-Orthodox draft exemption but then also to get over it, and for the discussion to shift to other topics. “It’s difficult,” Plesner said. “But if Netanyahu decides that the coalition needs to pass it, it will probably pass.” Netanyahu went along with the Trump peace plan for Gaza, but he has never sounded like a big believer in it, telling Israelis that he is giving it time to play out but that Hamas will have to have its arms forcibly seized if it does not lay them down voluntarily. The Israeli public is generally with him on that, polls show. A majority of Israelis expect that war with Hamas will resume within a year. Exhausted as Israelis are, the freeing of their hostages — whose captivity fueled protests demanding an end to the war out of fear for their survival — could reduce opposition to an eventual return to war, analysts say. But Israel’s continued strikes in Gaza since the cease-fire appear to have angered the Trump administration, which wants to extend and build on the truce, not jeopardize it. Similarly, Israel’s military actions in Lebanon and Syria appear at odds with the Trump administration’s efforts to stabilize governments in both countries. Trump has repeatedly shown impatience with Netanyahu. And he could use their meeting on Monday to squeeze the Israeli leader on some or all of these fronts. Netanyahu is expected to urge Trump to back him in continuing to apply pressure to Iran, which Israeli officials say is rebuilding its missile arsenal. It is Gaza that poses the most intriguing set of choices. Netanyahu’s refusal so far to allow a role in Gaza for the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the occupied West Bank and is a bitter rival of Hamas, is making it difficult for the Trump administration to assemble many of the components of his plan. Those include an International Stabilization Force, a technocratic committee of Palestinians to run Gaza and a supervising Board of Peace. Arab and European countries whose participation the Trump administration is seeking want the Palestinian Authority involved. Netanyahu’s oft-stated determination to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state is deterring countries that want assurances that their assistance in disarming Hamas and rebuilding Gaza will lead to a renewed effort to establish a state, not just to a renewed cycle of violence a few years down the road. While the Saudis have indicated that they are nowhere near ready to establish diplomatic ties with Israel, if Trump seeks to enlist Netanyahu in winning them over, the Israeli leader could face a legacy-defining choice. #netanyahu#trump#israel#gaza#syria#palestine 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Netanyahu Meets Trump: Gaza Is at Stake Over Again 🔤🔤🔤🔤1️⃣ Netanyahu has been prime minister of Israel for so long that nearly everyone knows how he governs. He delays decisions. He keeps options open for as long as possible and creates new ones whenever he can. He wears down, outwaits and outlasts his adversaries — as well as his ostensible allies. He turns crises — including some of his own creation — into opportunities he can defuse, for a price. But events are lining up in a way that may tax even his well-documented ability to stretch out tough decisions and shape them to his advantage. Netanyahu’s criminal trial on charges of bribery and fraud is inexorably advancing. Trump’s peace plan for Gaza is inching along toward a difficult Phase 2, and tensions are building with the White House over Israel’s actions in Syria and Lebanon. The pressure on him is mounting from every direction. That includes from the Israeli right, Netanyahu’s political base, which is agitating for him to pursue annexation of the Israeli-occupied West Bank despite Trump’s warnings that doing so would trigger a harsh U.S. response. On each of these fronts, 2026 is shaping up as a momentous year for Mr. Netanyahu, 76, and for the country he has represented for the better part of three decades. He is almost certainly going to have to make a series of decisions with great consequence — for Israeli society and security, for Palestinians, and for the broader Middle East. As he prepares to meet Trump in Florida on Monday, and as Israel awaits an election at some point in 2026, here is a look at some of his pivotal choices ahead. If he wants to maintain his decades-old political alliance with Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, one of Netanyahu’s first tasks is to try to meet its demand for a law granting yeshiva students a new exemption from the draft, after an old exemption expired and the Supreme Court ruled in 2024 that they were legally obligated to serve. A new exemption would be wildly unpopular with the vast majority of Israelis, who have been exhausted by the Gaza war’s demands on conscripts and reservists alike over the past two years. If Parliament does not enact the exemption, his government could collapse, precipitating elections early next year. Analysts say Netanyahu wants to delay elections for as long as possible, hoping that his standing in the polls will improve the further Israel gets from the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack, which happened on his watch. #netanyahu#trump#israel#gaza#syria#palestine 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

OSINT leaks - Syrian Mossad spy taking refuge in Lebanon's Ukrainian embassy. A terrorist with Syrian, Ukrainian and Israeli citizenship. He helped in killing Hassan Nasrallah and other terrorist attack. Credits: Journalist Radwan Mortada @cKure #Lebanon#Nasrallah#Mossad#Ukraine#Hezbollah

Netanyahu Says Israel Will Keep Striking in Lebanon, Including North of the Litani Israel is running the same old border-security script in Lebanon, only now it comes with the vocabulary of “freedom of action,” “emerging threats,” and a security zone that keeps expanding while everyone pretends this is temporary. Netanyahu is claiming the U.S. and Lebanon have effectively blessed Israeli strikes north of the buffer zone and beyond the Litani, which is a very polished way of saying the war is still alive, just better packaged. The headline number is brutal: Hezbollah is down to roughly 10 percent of its prewar missile arsenal, but Netanyahu says the remaining rockets and drones are still enough to keep the north under pressure. That means the strategy is no longer just to survive the threat — it is to keep shrinking the threat until “security” becomes another word for permanent military management. What makes the whole thing political, not just military, is the promise that the “political side” can be solved later if the operational and technological side works now. That is classic Netanyahu: let the army, the tech sector, and the diplomatic theater do the heavy lifting, then present the result as if it were inevitable and clean. But the gap between the official story and ground reality is still huge. On paper, Israel has freedom of action; in practice, it has a fragile ceasefire, a still-armed Hezbollah in the background, and a northern frontier that looks less like a border than a managed zone of controlled escalation. So the message is simple: the government says the mission is not over, the army says the rules are changing, and the public is being asked to believe that a longer buffer zone is somehow the same thing as a durable peace. #Israel#Lebanon#Hezbollah#Netanyahu#Litani#securityzone 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🇱🇧 Lebanon Gets a Ten-Day Truce Israel has agreed to a 10-day cease-fire in Lebanon, but the fine print is already causing trouble. Netanyahu says the fighting against Hezbollah will pause, while Israeli troops stay in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah, for its part, is warning that any truce that leaves Israel room to move is not much of a truce at all. This is not a breakthrough. It is a release valve. Trump is presenting the pause as part of a broader push to end the U.S.-Iran war, but his administration is still threatening Iran with strikes on energy sites if the talks fail. So the region gets a cease-fire headline and an open-ended threat in the same news cycle. The government in Beirut does not really control Hezbollah, and that is why these deals keep arriving with loopholes you could drive a truck through. Lebanon welcomes the pause, which is understandable after more than 2,100 deaths and over a million displaced, but a short truce is not the same thing as a settlement. Israel keeps territory. Hezbollah keeps its red lines. Trump keeps talking like the war is almost over. A ten-day freeze may buy time, but it will not survive the next serious incident. #lebanon#israel#hezbollah#trump#iran#war#middleeast 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

—❗🇱🇧/🇮🇱NEW: Israeli media talking about a security event in southern #Lebanon and families of the iof soldiers were notified. According to the report, At least 5 military helicopters in evacuation operations in southern Lebanon. @AlHaqNews

🇵🇰🇮🇷🇱🇧🔻Pakistan’s Minister of Defense, H.E KHAWAJA MUHAMMAD ASIF: Israel is an evil and a curse on humanity. While peace talks are underway, it commits genocide in #Lebanon. @AlHaqNews

📰 While Israel Bombs Iran, Hamas Rebuilds at Home Israel is fighting a regional war with Iran — and letting Hamas quietly reload in its backyard. Security experts warn that while the IDF is focused on Tehran and the northern front, Hamas is rapidly rebuilding its rule in Gaza: restoring tunnel networks, moving guarded convoys, and reasserting tax collection and local “governance.” Footage and intel described in Israeli media show armed escorts, tunnel repair and renewed economic activity under Hamas control, fueling fears in border communities that all the talk about the group’s “collapse” was premature marketing, not reality. For Israel’s government, this is the strategic bill for the Iran obsession. Every day spent chasing “historic achievements” against Iran’s nuclear and missile programs is a day of manpower, money and political attention not spent on the basic promise to Israeli citizens around Gaza: no more October 7, no more armed columns and tunnel cities a few kilometers away. The ugly irony: as Netanyahu pushes sprints against Iran’s arms industry, Hamas is testing how fast it can restore its own — under the cover of someone else’s war. If Jerusalem doesn’t re-balance soon, it risks winning another round in the skies over Tehran while losing, once again, the ground game in Gaza. #israel#gaza#hamas#iran#war#security#netanyahu 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

▶️ "I was under the ground and couldn't get out." The footage shows a traumatized Palestinian child telling the journalist that he was trapped under the rubble of his family house after being bombed by Israeli forces. @PressTV - #Palestine

🇮🇷 Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters announced that it will continue to support the resistance front in #Lebanon, #Palestine, #Yemen, and #Iraq. The headquarters stated that it considers the United States a partner in any aggression or transgression committed by the "israeli" entity against Iran and its interests.