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Merz will tell Netanyahu "not to overdo it" in a call this week, though notes Germany will remain more guarded in its criticism than others for 'historical reasons'. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that Israel's recent attacks on Gaza are taking a humanitarian toll on civilians that can no longer be justified as a fight against terrorism. "Harming the civilian population to such an extent, as has incresingly been the case in recent days, can no longer be justified as a fight against Hamas terrorism," he told broadcaster WDR in a televised interview...

18 US Army Rangers have been temporarily suspended as instructors over the alleged firing... A missile from Yemen fired at Israel early Friday... For the second night in a row extensive Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia... The US Supreme Court ruling to allow the Trump Administration to fire two members... In Israel late tonight Jewish residents attacking a Palestinian community... Defying a finding by Israel's Attorney General Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointing... After a delay for a court hearing, a treaty signed between the United Kingdom and... 16 wounded in a Ukrainian attack on a Russian city... The budget...

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are seemingly at odds amid a U.S. truce with Houthis in Yemen and the President seeking to peacefully negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran without plunging the United States into another endless war. According to Axios, Trump met with Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer in private on Thursday to discuss upcoming nuclear talks with Iran and Israel’s Gaza campaign. Dremer also met with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and special envoy Steve Witkoff. Trump is expected to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates on...

Israel’s government has approved a plan to seize all of the Gaza Strip and hold control over the territory for an unspecified length of time, officials have revealed. Government officials said the newly approved offensive plan would move Gaza’s civilian population southward and keep humanitarian aid from falling into the hands of the terrorist group Hamas. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet ministers unanimously approved plans for the new offensive on Monday morning. It came just hours after it was announced that tens of thousands of reserve soldiers are being called up. The plan reportedly provides for the “conquering of Gaza”...

Prime Minister and Defense Minister announce Israel has struck a target close to the presidential palace in Damascus: "We will not permit any threat to the Druze community." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced early Friday morning that Israel had struck a target close to the presidential palace in Damascus. "This is a clear message to the Syrian regime. We will not permit Syrian troops to move south of Damascus or any threat to the Druze community," they said in a joint statement...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke via phone on Tuesday with US President Donald Trump, the American leader said, declaring that the pair “are on the same side of every issue.” The call covered “numerous subjects including Trade, Iran, etc.,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, adding that the conversation went “very well.” Notably, Trump did not include Gaza or the 59 hostages being held there in his list of topics discussed amid the ongoing impasse in ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas. However, according to a report in Axios, the pair did talk about efforts to reach...

The Israeli government is exposing a malicious Deep State plot by the domestic security forces to bring down the Netanyahu government, similar to the US Deep State campaign against Donald Trump 2016-2024. At the center of the plot is the head of the Shin Bet security service Ronen Bar, who refuses to leave his post after being fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Observers had been mystified by the massive security failures of the vaunted Israeli secret service on October 7, leading to antisemitic conspiracy theories claiming Israel actually was responsible for the horrific terror attacks taht killed over 1200 people....

US Senator Lindsey Graham published a post calling on Israel to reconsider the appointment of VADM Eli Sharvit, who recently wrote a column criticizing President Trump's policies....

Polic arrested Jonatan Urich and Eli Feldstein, top aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as suspects in the so-called Qatargate scandal on Monday, just as the attorney general ordered the police to summon the premier for testimony in the ongoing probe. Netanyahu left the Tel Aviv District Court Monday morning, cutting short his criminal trial on corruption charges, to give testimony to the Israel Police's Lahav 433 major crimes unit regarding the alleged unlawful financial ties between his senior staffers and Qatar. He returned to Jerusalem and was reportedly to be questioned on Monday afternoon at the Prime Minister's office...

PM claims AG, Shin Bet head opened probe into aides' ties to Doha on same date he had set for Bar to present report on agency's Oct. 7 failures, but Qatar probe had been ongoing for weeks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Saturday that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and Shin Bet security agency chief Ronen Bar only opened an investigation into his senior aides' financial ties with Qatar... Netanyahu's cabinet voted unanimously on Thursday to fire Bar and was set to meet Sunday to advance the process of firing Baharav-Miara...

WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday evening that his meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House earlier this week was the “best meeting” ever had between leaders of the two nations. Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, has visited Washington, DC, many times and met with many different American presidents. He has met with congressional leaders of both parties over the years. But this particular meeting with Trump — who Netanyahu said is the “greatest friend of Israel” ever to serve as U.S. president — was special for a variety of reasons....

Trump met Erdogan at a Nato meeting early in June. Their discussions were very friendly, and after they ended, Trump thought they had made a deal: Trump would ask Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to release a Turkish citizen, Ebru Ozkan, arrested because of alleged terrorist links to Hamas, and then Turkey would release pastor Andrew Brunson, who was arrested in Turkey on October 2016 on charges of espionage, which the US considers are bogus charges. So on July 14, Trump called Netanyahu and requested that Ozkan be released, and she was released the next day. But Brunson was not...

President Trump gets a thing or two done. In his first term in office, President Trump apparently thought he could operate as if the federal government were a corporation he headed as Chief Executive and Commander in Chief of the armed forces. He assumed those beneath him would give him honest counsel, would perform their assigned duties, and follow his directives. He learned otherwise. All the steps he took the first week after beginning his astonishing second term are those a wise CEO and commander in chief must take to do the job he promised and was elected to do....

Benjamin Netanyahu is piling pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to restore all arms licences for Israel. The Israeli PM ‘raised the issue’ of Britain having suspended around 30 licences in a phone call yesterday just hours after Donald Trump became US president. A readout from the Jewish State’s government press office stated that Sir Keir ‘said that an evaluation of the issue is being carried out’.

Just days after American tycoon Elon Musk caused a stir when he made a gesture reminiscent of a Nazi salute, the prime minister stood by him. 'Elon is a great friend of Israel,' Netanyahu wrote on the X platform, owned by the billionaire who is close to President Trump.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has assured that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have safe passage and will not face arrest if he attends the 80th-anniversary commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz later this month, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The assurance follows a call by Polish President Andrzej Duda for the government to guarantee Netanyahu's security. In a letter obtained by Bloomberg News, Duda cited the "absolutely exceptional circumstances" surrounding the event. Netanyahu is currently under an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes in Gaza. “Anyone who wishes to attend the Auschwitz...

Late tonight a missile from Yemen intercepted by Israeli air defenses... "Don't you think we should release the names of the representatives? I do" That's Republican Congressman Thomas Massie... British Politics the Reform UK Party celebrating a milestone in membership... Israel's Attorney General directing police to open an investigation in Sara Netanyahu the wife of Prime Minister... Israel's El Al airline suspending flights between Tel Aviv and Moscow... A police official in Mozambique says six thousand prisoners were freed in disturbances at prisons in the capital city... At least three killed in a bus crash in Norway... The new government...

US intelligence assessments before Israel escalated its conflict against the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group in September said that such a move risked sparking an all-out war in which hundreds — if not thousands — of Israelis would be killed, three US officials and one Israeli official told The Times of Israel... ...the US officials said, acknowledging that both countries’ assessments proved wildly inaccurate within days, as the IDF methodically took out much of Hezbollah’s missile and drone capabilities, dismantled its military infrastructure in southern Lebanon, picked off almost every member of its senior leadership and killed or wounded thousands of...

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he had a “very good talk” with Israel‘s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, about the war in Gaza and reiterated his threat that “all hell is going to break out” if Hamas does not release its hostages by Jan. 20, the day Trump takes office. “As you know, I gave a warning that if these hostages aren’t back home by that date, all hell is going to break out,” he said during a press conference in Palm Beach, Florida. Later, Trump added that if no ceasefire deal is reached by the time he takes...

"We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time" Romans 8:22... Corporate Media Corporate Drama Corporate Murder This week the arrest of Luigi Mangione in the murder of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. It looks like this young man was obsessed with some injustices real or imagined felt the need to 'change society'. I reflected on my own youth a little bit and there was this obsession in my childish youth I mean in my 20's back in the 1980's to "change society"... I read some folks saying...