As Israel heads toward addressing the dramatic challenges facing it in the Middle East, chief among them Iran, it is accompanied by a highly supportive US administration that is nonetheless internally divided. At the same time, senior officials in Washington believe there is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to launch positive moves that could pull the entire region in a better direction.
According to Saudi media, Israeli security forces carried out covert operations west of the yellow line in an area under Hamas control. Palestinian sources added that Israel believes the terrorist has a direct link to the loctaion of the deceased Israeli hostage, the last remaining in the Gaza Strip.
While Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are pushing to fast-track Gaza’s reconstruction, Netanyahu is set to present the president with an “indifferent” approach. The prime minister views the situation in Gaza as a bigger problem for the Americans, who are struggling to assemble an international force, than for Israel.
It is not Donald Trump whom Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be most concerned about, but rather James Fishback, a Republican candidate for governor of Florida. Netanyahu, the architect of Israel’s alliance with the Republican Party, should use his conversation with the president to address the need to curb a trend that ultimately threatens US support for Israel.
A Hamas propaganda handbook seized during ground operations in Gaza has laid bare the terror organization's calculated strategy: present a sanitized image to Western audiences while maintaining core antisemitic ideology in Arabic-language materials distributed internally.
