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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed apparently classified details about the pager operation against Hezbollah, when he publicly referred to an intelligence operation that preceded the pager attack.The remarks were made during his speech at the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem, and reportedly caused great surprise in the defense establishment, according to Israel's Channel 12 news....Netanyahu shared that the decision to eliminate Nasrallah was made while he was flying to the U.S., after receiving intelligence that Nasrallah would likely leave the place he was staying within the next couple days, and that Israeli intelligence did not know where he would...

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....

Daniel Wakin, the New York Times Deputy International Editor of Opinion, had an "Opinion Today" item in the paper's April 14th edition promoting a guest essay on the Op-Ed page entitled, "The U.S. Must Now Reckon With a Hegemon in the Mideast: Israel." The beginning of Wakin's item [emphasis added] reads: "Ancient Rome in the Mediterranean. The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. The United States in the Western Hemisphere, for that matter. History is rife with nations and empires seeking to become dominant in a region or larger swath of the world. It is called hegemony. Aaron David Miller and...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed the meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday evening practically empty-handed. Expectations in Israel were high that Netanyahu would be able to secure either a reduction in the 17% tariffs announced by President Trump last week, or a strong stance against Iran for resisting U.S. efforts at negotiations over the country’s nuclear ambitions, or possibly even positive developments in the issue of the hostages, after Netanyahu met with Trump and his special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. However, to the disappointment of many in Israel, Netanyahu left with little good news for Israel. Instead...

Update(1759ET): Netanyahu did not get the quick or clear answer he was hoping for from President Trump in the Monday afternoon meeting in the Oval Office. Netanyahu pledged Israel will move quickly to close the trade gap and reduce trade barriers with Washington. “Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same,” the Israeli leader said, adding, “I’m a free trade champion, and free trade has to be fair trade.” However, Trump indicated he might not reduce tariffs on Israel. “We give Israel $4 billion a year,” Trump said, and quipped in a troll-like...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: Netanyahu announces Israel will be ending their trade barriers and tariffs on the United States: “We’re going to also eliminate trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily. Mr. President, we are going to eliminate the tariffs." From Nick Sortor 2:38 PM · Apr 7, 2025

For the second time in just two months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is back in Washington D.C. and at the White House meeting with President Donald Trump. On the agenda for discussion are Trump's new tariffs, Iran's nuclear program, Hamas' ongoing war against Israel from Gaza, hostage release negotiations, Islamic terrorism, the tech industry and much more. "I am heading to the U.S. at the invitation of President Trump to discuss the hostages, the completion of the victory in Gaza, and the tariffs also applied to Israel. I hope I can help in this matter," Netanyahu said upon departure....

The two leaders are expected to discuss US tariffs on Israel, the war in Gaza and Iran’s rapidly growing nuclear program. If the visit does take place, Netanyahu will be the first foreign leader to meet with Trump since he announced plans to impose reciprocal tariffs on dozens of nations. Imports from Israel will be hit with a 17% levy under the president’s plan. Netanyahu will likely attempt to negotiate a deal to remove the new tariffs on the Jewish state.

The fight against what Prime Minister Netanyahu has taken to calling Israel’s “deep state” is now in full swing. It reached a climax on Thursday, March 20, late in the evening, when the cabinet unanimously voted to dismiss Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet—the country’s domestic security service. The termination is to take effect on the earlier of two dates: April 10, or when a replacement is found. Bar is not going down without a fight, however, and has retaliated by stepping up an investigation against the prime minister’s staff. Bar’s removal is long overdue. For starters, he...

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...

According to the Daily Mail, Khan allegedly pressured a female colleague for over five months to withdraw her accusations of sexual misconduct, including making multiple daily calls urging her to retract her claims.

The ground is shifting in real time. Israel is partnering with other persecuted minorities in the region to defeat the jihad armies. The Druze, with the support of Israel, now fully control the southern Syrian region of Sweida, the first overwhelmingly non-Muslim state in the Middle East since Israel. A new country is emerging in the Middle East. The Druze, with the support of Israel, now fully control the southern Syrian region of Sweida. ... Sweida has almost half a million people. Over 85% are Druze and nearly 10% are Christian. It’s BY FAR the safest area for Christians in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video Sunday thanking President Donald Trump profusely for his help in what seemed a pointed and deliberate contrast to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s behavior. There were other reasons for the address: as Breitbart News reported, Trump had just expedited the delivery of $4 billion in arms (in contrast to President Joe Biden), and had offered a proposal for extending the Gaza ceasefire. But the subtext was unmistakable. On Friday, Zelensky confronted the President and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office itself, in a display that offended many Americans and that struck...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office acknowledged Saturday that the premier’s intelligence officer had received an Israel Defense Forces memo detailing suspicious Hamas activity three hours before the terror group’s October 7, 2023, invasion and onslaught, and didn’t pass it on. The premier’s office argued that this was justified given what it said was the document’s non-urgent framing. The admission came in response to a Channel 12 report that said the IDF had drafted a document setting out the numerous worrying signs of Hamas activity in Gaza that night and sent it out to the intelligence officers of seven key Israeli...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that Israel will be halting all movement of goods into Gaza, following Hamas’s apparent rejection of a ceasefire proposal suggested by President Donald Trump’s envoy. As Breitbart News reported Saturday, “Israel accepted a new proposal by the Trump administration on Saturday night, under which all of the 63 remaining hostages would be released over the course of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, en route to a permanent ceasefire.” It was not clear at the time what Hamas’s response would be to the proposal, which had been conveyed by U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff.

Patrick Rooney watches and discusses the outrageous "Trump Gaza" video with his guests, business and political consultant Brian J. Pombo, stand-up comedian Marc Yaffee, and Jerry McClellan, graphic novelist and animator, on the "Old School With Patrick Rooney" Podcast. President Trump shared this video with no comment from his Truth Social account. The panel has varied and at times surprising takes on the video and the effect it is having and will have on Americans, Gazans, and the world. What do YOU think of it?...

Billionaire serving in senior Trump administration role shares favorable film of the prime minister's trial, broadcast on Fox on his platform X .

ICC arrest warrant: Germany’s incoming leader stands by Netanyahu. Germany's likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, invites Netanyahu for a visit, says arrangements would be made to prevent Netanyahu from being arrested.

On this three-year anniversary of the Ukraine War, Donald Trump body-slams Volodymyr Zelenskyy! Is Bibi Netanyahu next? In this Underground episode, Michael Matt tracks the pattern of deception used by a media propaganda machine unsurpassed in human history. From George Floyd, to the “invasion” of Ukraine, to October 7th, it’s what the media do NOT want you to see that’s the game-changer! In other words, it’s the events that came just before the cameras started rolling that make all the difference to the truth if and when we are allowed to see them. On its 3-year anniversary, Michael takes a...

As regular readers know, Hamass was scheduled to hand over to Israel four murdered hostages and among them are easily the two most heartbreaking: Kfir and Ariel Bibas. Sixteen months ago, these ‘Bibas Babies’ were nine and four years old, respectively, when they were abducted by Hamass during the October 7, 2023 pogram. Their bodies were allegedly handed to Israeli authorities overnight, although there is always a non-zero chance that Hamass is wrong or lying and it will turn out it is not their bodies. But while we don’t think Hamass is particularly trustworthy in general, when they essentially admit...