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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 🇺🇸

▶️ "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

🔻 The IOF admits to the serious wounding of 5 soldiers, four of them in southern Lebanon, and one in the northern #Gaza Strip.

🚨 The IOF carried out a new massacre, destroying an entire residential block above the heads of citizens on Tal Al-Zaatar in Jabalia, northern #Gaza Strip. Two martyrs have been recovered so far and there are a large amount of wounded. Artillery shelling continues on various parts of Jabalia, and several martyrs have ascended there as a result of residential homes being targeted. 4 martyrs and 5 injuries were reported as a result of the IOF targeting of a gathering of citizens on Al-Nasr Street west of Gaza City. Further, internet and communications have been cut off in the northern Gaza Strip as a result of the IOF aggression, as the siege enters its third week.

🚨🟢 BREAKING - Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya announces the martyrdom of the great leader, President of the Hamas Political Bureau, the hero of Al-Aqsa Flood, Yahya Sinwar, who sought martyrdom and attained it after clashing with a zionist force alongside other fighters in the #Gaza Strip. Further coverage of the Al-Hayya’s statement will be provided. Glory to the martyrs.

Ahmed Al-Telbani, Director of the Central Station in the Medical Services’ Emergency and Ambulance Department, ascended to martyrdom along with his family members in the IOF air strike of their home in Maghazi camp, central #Gaza Strip. Glory to the martyrs.

🔻 The IOF admits to the death of 5 IOF soldiers, including two officers, during a battle with the resistance in southern Lebanon. In the same incident, three Golani Brigade soldiers (including an officer) were seriously wounded. In total, the IOF admitted to the critical wounding of 8 zionist soldiers in three battles in southern Lebanon. They also admitted to the serious wounding of a soldier during a battle in the southern #Gaza Strip yesterday.

🚨 10 martyrs have been recovered by Civil Defense crews following the IOF bombing the Al-Telbani family home in Maghazi camp in the central #Gaza Strip. 60 martyrs have ascended in the Gaza Strip today, with at least 25 of them in Jabalia camp.

On October 17th, 2023, in a cowardly assassination, commander Ayman Nofal ascended after US-funded IOF warplanes targeted him in Bureij camp in central #Gaza. Beloved by allfactions, the commanding martyr was an Al-Qassam Brigades leader who created the foundations of the united Joint Operations Room of Palestinian Resistance Factions, a room in which the spectrum of Palestinian and Arab resistance coordinate. Just weeks ago, Ayman's nephew was martyred at the Gaza border protests. Ayman embodied the spirit of the Joint Room which he led in his words and deeds, recognizing, like martyred leaders before him, "Either we rise together, or they will kill us individually." Here, Ayman speaks in 2021 at the Joint Operation's Room annual training for all factions. Without a doubt, Ayman was one of the engineers of the long-planned Al-Aqsa Flood for the sake of our prisoners and Al-Aqsa, evident in the words of this speech: GiladShalit was just practice. Learning from the lessons of previous operations and honoring the blood of the martyrs, we march forth towards liberation, never forgetting those who paved the path. Glory to our martyrs! Glory to our resistance! Liberation nears with their guiding illumination.

🚨 22 martyrs have ascended in the horrific massacre at the Abu Hussein School in Jabalia camp, northern #Gaza Strip, and dozens are wounded. Most of the martyrs are children and women, after the IOF bombed the school housing a large number of displaced people. Tanks began firing shells at the school after advancing from west of Jabalia. The hospitals in the north are unable to deal with the large number of injuries and martyrs. The IOF also bombed the Khalifa School in the northern #Gaza Strip, resulting in a large fire and one martyr. In a series of strikes, at least 11 martyrs ascended in Gaza City. The siege of Jabalia camp and the north continues for the 13th day without any aid reaching it.

🚨 In a new massacre, 15 martyrs and a large number of wounded (mostly children) were reported as a result of the IOF bombing the Abu Hussein School, which houses a large number of displaced people, in Jabalia camp, northern #Gaza Strip.