Joseph Aoun arrives in Washington for crucial meetings with President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Lebanon hopes the US will pressure Israel to withdraw, but diplomatic sources warn: “Israel will not withdraw without full security guarantees on the ground.”
Political positions no longer matter, nor does the question of whether signing the accords was right or wrong. What matters is asking a simple question: Did the State of Israel examine what actually happened to the agreements on which it based part of its security doctrine for years? Which commitments were fulfilled, which were violated, who sounded the alarm in real time, and what consequences did those violations have for the security of Israeli civilians?
The former prime minister told Israeli Army Radio that the operational plan he devised while in office included measures aimed at toppling the Iranian regime. “We could have smuggled Starlink terminals into the country ahead of time and ensured that when they shut the internet down, we would switch it back on. But they didn’t do it, just like everything else.”
What the Israeli election campaign beginning this weekend is not about.
The IDF imposed restrictions in the western Negev ahead of a mass march expected to draw senior ministers and Knesset members. Thousands are expected to march from Yad Mordechai toward Gaza, calling for Jewish communities to be reestablished in the Gaza Strip “before the elections.”
