CBS reports that Iran hit more facilities than previously known and even managed to strike a US base with an outdated fighter jet. The enormous cost of the damage could spark a political battle in Congress
At the root of the criticism of torchbearer Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv, as with Shin Bet chief Zini, lies a primal fear of those who grew in the wrong patch and of their value system. Anyone who is not “us” is automatically branded a threat: right-wingers, Mizrahim, ultra-Orthodox Jews, settlers, people of faith and observant Jews
Despite White House efforts to arrange talks between the leaders, the Saudi envoy in Beirut conveyed reservations about the move and recommended making disarmament conditional on an IDF withdrawal. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun aligned: “I never intended to speak with Netanyahu.”
At the summit of Mount Dov, Lt. Col. G., deputy commander of the IDF’s Mountain Brigade, acknowledges: “Before the massacre, we didn’t operate here.” Since then, however, Israel has shifted from defense to offense, culminating in the capture of the Hermon ridge and control over the entire area. The next step, the Druze officer hopes, will be to annex his brethren across the Syrian border.
Egypt’s foreign minister has called on Israel to fully withdraw from Lebanese territory and uphold the ceasefire, as part of a broader US-Arab effort to stabilize Israel's northern front and potentially turn the truce into a long-term arrangement.
