The Guardian May 23, 2025
But endorsing murder because of the other side’s atrocities is a sure path to a bloodbath. That is wrong on two counts.

First, there is no evidence that the gunman acted because of Israel’s critics as opposed to Israel’s conduct.
Second, it cheapens the concept of antisemitism to equate it with legitimate criticism of Israeli war crimes.

Antisemitism is a real and growing problem but if the concept is misused to deflect condemnation of Israeli atrocities, it weakens protection for Jews around the world. There are lessons to be drawn from this tragedy.

Critics of the Israeli government’s atrocious conduct in Gaza should be clear that their focus is the authors:
1. Netanyahu, the generals directing the slaughter,
2. and the soldiers carrying it out,
3. but not the Israeli people,
4. not people who happen to work as civilians for the Israeli government,
5. and not Jews.

The Israeli government might also reconsider its policy of endless reprisals.

Not that I am holding my breath in anticipation, but it is nice to think that the needless and unjustified killing of these two young embassy workers could prompt a rethinking of the government’s own callous treatment of Palestinian civilians, whose horrible and mounting death toll is also needless and unjustified.

The Jerusalem Post May 23, 2025
U.N. cannot dismiss grief and struggle of Israeli people.

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza can’t and shouldn’t be ignored. But neither should the cries of grieving parents of hostages.

Israel far and away had the highest level of enmity toward the organization, with no other country coming within 15 percent of Israel’s disapproval rating of the global body.

The reason for that large gap was showcased this week, when Tom Fletcher, the U.N.’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, went on the BBC. He said on Tuesday
1. “There are five trucks just sitting on the other side of the border right now,”
2. “They have not reached the communities they need to reach. This is baby food, baby nutrition.
3. There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.”

Needless to say, 14,000 Gazan babies did not die in two days.

Israel has historically not felt adequately represented by the U.N.

Look no further than the infamous UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 which equated Zionism with racism, a bastardization of the concept from people who seemed not to understand its very roots and importance to an often marginalized and massacred people.

To be an effective international broker, the U.N. cannot dismiss the true grief and struggle of the Israeli people, as it has. The horrors of this war do not extend only to one side. The U.N. has no right to gaslight us about our history and our hostages.

The heart of Israel is and will remain with the hostages. We know what an attack is.

The Jerusalem Post May 23, 2025
Propaganda against the Jewish state

To many Israelis, this is part and parcel with the propaganda
1. disseminated widely against the Jewish state,
2. cynically manipulating public perception by fudging facts amidst the fog of war
3. and trying to appeal to emotion by drastically and dramatically overstating the damage done on the ground.

This distortion does nothing to aid the cause on the ground.
To call it a well-intentioned attempt to rally people against the very real suffering in Gaza is to miss the point.

It is alarmism in search of a good cause, an extreme amplification that smacks of scapegoating.

It is the boy who cried wolf.
Exacerbate the issue by exploiting the most vulnerable to raise the stakes geopolitically and emotionally, then claim yourself as the savior.

It calls into question the motives of representatives of a supposedly peace-oriented organization, whether they are trying to achieve actual results or grandstand for what amounts to geopolitical clout and cultural cachet.

Israel at the U.N. feels like it is unduly maligned, its very soul and essence disturbingly distorted by people who only wish it harm.

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza can’t and shouldn’t be ignored. But neither should the cries of grieving parents of hostages.

In March, Ayelet Samerano, the mother of a hostage, spoke to the United Nations Human Rights Council: “I know what an attack is.
1. An attack is when terrorists, including UNRWA employees like Muhammad Abu Itiwi, enter a music festival and murder innocent young people.
2. An attack is when a U.N. social worker, paid by this organization, kidnapped my son into Gaza:
3. A U.N. employee who took upon himself to do good, yet did evil.
4. No, UNRWA is not under attack. UNRWA is the attacker.”

Attacking a UK prime minister that helps..

Netanyahu accuses Starmer of being on 'wrong side of humanity' and siding with Hamas

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7804k13x52o.amp

n an interview for BBC World Service's Newshour programme, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described the current Israeli administration as a "gang of thugs".

He was asked about remarks by the Israeli education minister, who had said Olmert should be ashamed of a previous interview with the BBC, where he argued that what Israel was doing in Gaza was "close to a war crime".

"This is nonsense, they are a group of thugs that are running the state of Israel these days and the head of the gang is Netanyahu - this is a gang of thugs," Olmert said.

"Of course they are criticising me, they are defaming me, I accept it, and it will not stop me from criticising and opposing these atrocious policies."

Ehud Olmert the first Israeli premier to be imprisoned:
Olmert is not an uncontroversial figure in Israel and internationally.

He was convicted of corruption in 2014 and in 2016 became the first Israeli premier to be imprisoned, capping a years-long legal saga that forced him to resign in 2009 during an intense round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, then released early, in 2017

Olmert and Qudwa have been traveling all over Europe in recent months, promoting their “peace initiative” which is based on the generous but failed peace proposition that Olmert presented in 2008 to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas

Abbas never rejected the peace plan He just didn’t react and waited for Olmert to step down

Wow! As Israel faces diplomatic 'tsunami' Olmert adding fuel to the raging terror volatility... former failed prime minister at that — now an expert.

Netanyahu is on the fail list too. perhaps next to be imprisoned.
Most believe, he cares: more about holding power than defeating Hamas, winning war, freeing hostages.

From: The Jerusalem Post May 23, 2025
Ehud Olmert's Gaza statement is more media spectacle than political dissent: — Editorial

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert crossed the line this week in his interview to the BBC

There are many ways to dissent in a democracy. That is our strength, but there are also lines – of responsibility, of timing, and of loyalty – and crossing those lines carries a cost. This week, former prime minister Ehud Olmert crossed that line.

In an interview with the BBC, Olmert denounced Israel’s conduct in Gaza in sweeping, unrestrained terms:
1. not in the Knesset,
2. not in the Israeli press,
3. and not to the people who live with the consequences.

He spoke instead to an international broadcaster, eager for condemnation and slow to understand the context or the cost.
When Israeli leaders, past or present, choose to denounce their own country in the pages and studios of foreign media, it is no longer internal critique.

It is a political act performed for an audience:
1. hungry for confirmation of its worst assumptions,
2. quick to strip complexity and to amplify blame,
3. and entirely free of responsibility.

Ehud Olmert's Gaza statement is more media spectacle than political dissent: — Editorial

The gap between protest and political ammunition:
This is not about silencing disagreement. Israelis argue with passion, conviction, and pain. We protest.

We publish. We fight over the soul of this country. That is our right and often our obligation.
But dissent belongs inside the civic conversation, not handed over to those who will use it to harm us.

Olmert’s words were not a call to conscience. They were not a principled act of protest.
They were the outsourcing of internal reckoning to those who bear none of its weight and will gladly weaponize his words.

I say this from experience. When I lived in London and had The Times or The International Herald Tribune delivered to my door, I saw how eagerly they seized every opportunity to run a caustic piece against Israel.

1. It didn’t matter who was in power, Left, Right, moderate, or hardline.
2. It didn’t matter what the context was.

If the criticism came from within Israel, especially from someone with stature, they’d rush to print it.
Not to grapple with complexity, but to feed a narrative of Israeli wrongdoing, they were always hungry to serve.

You want to protest, protest. You want to write, write. But write here. Speak in Hebrew. Speak to the people whose fate is bound up with yours, not to those who cheer when our standing crumbles or those who read our grief as weakness and our struggle as failure.

This isn’t protest; it’s spectacle. And in Olmert’s case, it’s a spectacle that betrays more than it reveals. This is not moral courage. It is civic abandonment. Because in moments like this, the question of where and who you speak to is not incidental; it is everything.

I came here from Britain eight years ago, not because I had answers, but because I couldn’t stand on the outside and speak as if I understood.
I came because I believed that to carry the weight of this country, you have to live it, with all its pain and all its possibilities.

If you want to shape its future, you stay in the conversation, even when it’s hard.
You speak to your own people, not over them, not past them, and not in places where your words become someone else’s weapon.

That is where responsibility begins, and that is where it must remain.

Day 595 Israel’s PM wedged and in the firing line:
Benjamin Netanyahu faces growing pressure on all sides as he prepares to launch an intensified campaign to wipe out Hamas at all costs.

Irish songwriter and activist Bono calls for Hamas to release hostages, Israel to be released from Netanyahu

the U2 musician said, during a speech at this year’s Ivor Novello awards:
1. “Hamas, release the hostages, stop the war
2. Israel, be released from Benjamin Netanyahu
3. and the far-right fundamentalists that twist your sacred texts,”

Bono’s latest comments follow those made in an interview with The Associated Press last week, where he expressed concern that the world war heading for a third world war.

U2 has previously expressed sympathy with the Israeli youth murdered by Hamas and changed the lyrics to the song ‘Pride’ to pay tribute to those killed at the Nova Music Festival.

From: The Times of Israel May 23, 2025
Security lapses in D.C. museum killings Failure at the Capital Jewish Museum Washington D.C.

‘He never should have made it inside that building’ The timeline of the attack is relatively clear and, to security analysts, troubling:

According to reports, the attacker shot his victims, the couple Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, on the street outside the museum as the event, organized by the American Jewish Committee, was winding down.

He then walked inside the museum, where an eyewitness said organizers offered him water and he remained for around 10 minutes until police arrived and he confessed to the shooting.

Both elements of the incident — that the attacker was able to reach his victims outside the event and then proceed inside for an extended period of time — indicate missteps, according to security professionals.

Paul Goldenberg, the former head of the Secure Community Network, which coordinates security for Jewish institutions nationwide, said:
His behavior was almost literally screaming that there’s an issue here,”

Goldenberg said that in a widely circulated video of the suspect entering the building, he appeared nervous and disheveled, with jerky movements.

After the shooting, Executive Director Dr. Beatrice Gurwitz and the museum’s board said in a statement they were “heartbroken by the murders,” vowing to reopen in the coming days “with all necessary security in place.”

I support Bono in this, he knows all about the devastation WAR brings growing up during The Troubles and the IRA.
The Washington attack will not be the last one on Israeli institutions world wide it is an "asymmetric" WAR.

The unrest is growing, even in the army top.


International • 18:30 • Modified at 18:30
'There is no doubt about Israel's war crimes'
Author : Lotte van Coevorden
International pressure on Israel to stop the bombing of Gaza and allow humanitarian aid is increasing. More than 100,000 people protested in The Hague, and protests are also being heard in other European countries. Even in Israel itself, unrest is growing, even in the army top. Yet Israel continues its attacks unabated. 'The situation in Gaza is truly catastrophic, and Israel's violence is disproportionate', says Robert Serry, former UN envoy for the Middle East in BNR de Wereld.


The word 'disproportionate' is often used in discussions about Israel's violence. Serry therefore explains what proportional means to him. 'Proportionate is when you try to adhere to the rules of the law of war and military principles. That means that you try to avoid causing casualties among the civilian population. And it also means that you give humanitarian access to that same population in times of war.'

'I really wonder what Israel is doing'
Robert Serry,
The latter is especially crucial, he says. 'The Gaza Strip has been completely cut off for months. And that has of course led to absolutely appalling situations. I really wonder what Israel is doing,' says Serry.

'What is Netanyahu doing?'
The former UN envoy refers to war theorist Clausewitz, who stated that war is essentially a form of politics, but then with violent means. 'But what is Netanyahu doing now?' According to Serry, Netanyahu has given the army the political order to completely eliminate Hamas. 'But that has not been successful for almost two years now. And that leads to this completely disproportionate violence.'

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Clausewitz also described war as an act of violence aimed at forcing the opponent to submit to your will. According to Serry, that is exactly the idea that Netanyahu seems to be following. 'But if you can't defeat Hamas for so long, then you have to ask yourself: what am I actually doing?'

War crimes
Serry also warns of the long-term consequences. 'You also have to ask yourself what Netanyahu is doing in terms of Israel's increasing isolation. I hear all over the radio now, as if it were an established fact, that Israel is committing genocide. That means that a people who were themselves victims of the Holocaust are now being accused of it. That's what it's come to.' Serry is not convinced that Israel is committing genocide. 'But it is certain that war crimes have been committed. That's almost inevitable when you see this disproportionate violence.'

'Ominous press conference'
Last week, Netanyahu gave a press conference that was, according to Serry, 'very ominous'. Trump has started suggesting that Palestinians would be better off leaving Gaza. 'And if I understand correctly, Netanyahu made that a condition for ending the war yesterday.' What Netanyahu means by that exactly, according to Serry, is unclear. 'But if he means Hamas, then maybe something could become possible. That could be the beginning of the end of the war.' Then, something the Israelis usually do not do, a distinction would be made between Hamas and Gazans.

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'The Netherlands may be violating the genocide convention'
According to Serry, it could be an evacuation of Hamas leaders and fighters to Egypt. 'If that could happen with a kind of safe conduct, in the context of an agreement where Arab troops supervise that process and also provide security in Gaza, then you might have found the beginning of a solution.'

Possible opening
Serry refers to a UN operation from the eighties in which he himself was involved. 'When Arafat was completely surrounded in Tripoli, we, with the Netherlands as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, ensured that he and his fighters were evacuated to Tunis, under the UN flag. This was done with Greek and French ships.' According to him, this is a precedent that could also be relevant now.

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'Israel counts on sufficient support within the EU for research'
"If something like that were possible again, that would be very important," Serry said. "We have to prevent this war from not really ending. If Hamas still has a say in Gaza after this war, then we're going back to square one. That's why I see this as a possible opening."

Well this is interesting Xi is also unpredictable.

Israeli strike kills nine of Gaza doctor's children, hospital says

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eq9lq7xr1o.amp

The Jerusalem Post May 26, 2025
Photo claiming to show Gaza doctors' 9/10 children killed in IAF strike is outdated — N12

Despite the questionable photos, N12 reported that there is currently no conclusive evidence — disproving or proving — the incident itself.

A photo circulating that claims to show nine children killed Friday in an IAF strike on Khan Yunis is outdated, N12 reported Monday.

N12 wrote The image was found to have appeared earlier in Gaza reports from over two months ago, suggesting it was manipulated by Hamas-affiliated media and was part of a deliberate misinformation campaign aimed at stirring propaganda against Israel but no surprise

N12 stated that the photo, circulated alongside claims regarding the deaths of Dr. Alaa al-Najjar's children in Khan Yunis, was originally published in March as part of a separate story.

In addition to the reused photos, images created using artificial intelligence (AI) have spread across Palestinian media over the past 24 hours, further casting doubt on the authenticity of the photo.

I too reckon, these images are manufactured, staged, exaggerated and presented to the world for Israel condemnation and it is working

No denying Day 597
1. sacrifices, horrifically wounded soldiers and soldiers returning in coffins
2. The horrors and immeasurable suffering, death and destruction All sides "endless offensive” Forever war devastating terror trauma
3. It is the innocent civilians indeed -- Gazans in particular between a rock and a hard place -- paying the horrendous price

But
1. No loving and responsible adult would send their children out into active war zone,
2. to get aid food especially when they keep accusing IDF of bombing indiscriminately safe zones — everywhere
3. Cameras so handy capturing children licking empty pots
4. Food laden tables, fairy lights for Ramadan
5. Dead bodies always in snow white shrouds if really bodies in them
6. I once saw Al Jazeera reporting no fuel no nothing in Gaza but vehicles traffic driving behind him

Haaretz May 25, 2025
'A Response to Zionist Crimes in Gaza': Arab Influencers React to D.C. Shooting With Praise, Conspiracies.

The killing of two Israeli diplomats by a Chicago native has triggered mostly celebratory reactions across Arab social media.
Some even compared the shooter to the late Hamas Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, commending his defiance.

The killing of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington last week has ignited a wave of reactions across the Arab world, most visibly
1. conspiracy theories
2. and expressions of praise for the shooter.

Haaretz May 26, 2025
Gaza Aid Fund CEO resigns: 'It is impossible to implement the plan while maintaining humanitarian principles'
The CEO of the Gaza Humanitarian Aid Fund (GHF) Jake Wood, announced his immediate resignation from his position.

Wood said that it is "impossible to implement the plan while upholding the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence — principles I will not compromise on." so gave up — 3 weeks

Wood added that he believes the only path to a long-term solution is: How original Einstein
1. "the release of all hostages,
2. cessation of hostilities,
3. and the creation of a pathway to peace, security, and dignity for all people in the region."

Wood, a senior figure in the humanitarian community who took on the role about three weeks ago to lead the U.S.-Israeli project aimed at providing food to Gaza's residents, shared that when he was approached, "GHF was a loose concept, a collection of ideas from a wide range of parties," and that his goal was to transform the initiative into "a truly independent humanitarian entity."

He said he developed a practical plan that took security needs into account, but it is not feasible to implement.

He further urged Israel to expand the flow of aid to Gaza using all available means, and called on all parties to continue exploring innovative methods for delivering aid, without delay or discrimination. Oh, oh Jake, Jake you are blind. Not with this terror thing that's been going on for 77 years --

Agence France-Presse May 26, 2025
Latest: Spain’s top diplomat proposes imposing sanctions on Israel to force end to Gaza war

Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares urges allies to impose arms embargo on Israel, as well as individual sanctions on people who are trying to ‘ruin the two-state solution forever’ Where is this second state? Rewarding terrorism

The international community should look at sanctions against Israel to stop the Gaza war, Spain’s foreign minister said Sunday, as European and Arab nations gathered in Madrid to urge an end to its offensive.

Some of Israel’s long-standing allies have added their voices to growing international pressure after it expanded military operations against the Hamas terror group, which rules the Gaza Strip.

An aid blockade lasting almost three months has worsened shortages of food, water, fuel and medicine in the Palestinian enclave, stoking fears of famine.
Even after Israel allowed deliveries to resume last week, aid organizations have said the trickle of supplies entering the Strip falls far short of needs.

The talks aimed to stop Israel’s “inhumane” and “senseless” war in Gaza, Albares told reporters before the meeting opened.

Humanitarian aid must enter Gaza “massively, without conditions and without limits, and not controlled by Israel,” he added, describing the territory as humanity’s “open wound.” Déjà vu Hamas and terror proxies say Thank you

Representatives from European countries, including France, Britain, Germany and Italy joined envoys from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Morocco, the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

Norway, Iceland, Ireland and Slovenia, who like Spain have already recognised a Palestinian state, also took part, alongside Brazil.

Trump silent
1. Trump's just not that into Netanyahu
2. Putin's just not that into Trump

Agence France-Presse May 26, 2025
After the European Union decided this week to review its cooperation deal with Israel, Albares told reporters Spain would request its “immediate suspension.”

Spain would also urge partners to impose an arms embargo on Israel and “not rule out any” individual sanctions against those “who want to ruin the two-state solution forever,” he added. Where is this second state? Rewarding terrorism

Spain is a long-time critic of Israel’s policies toward Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and has outraged Jerusalem by recognizing Palestinian statehood last May. Tensions escalated last week when Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called Israel a “genocidal state,” while speaking in the Spanish parliament.

The Foreign Ministry responded by summoning the Spanish ambassador to Israel for a dressing down.

Israel always seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses
1. Gaza’s civilians as human shields,
2. fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.

Agence France-Presse May 26, 2025
‘Time for action’ Sunday’s meeting also promoted a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said he wanted to “move as fast as possible to a peace where Palestine and Israel can coexist and bring stability and security for the whole region.”

Spain's Albares told Cadena SER radio after the summit that the event made progress by including more EU powers like France, Germany and Italy in the format. They would “never give up on peace in the Middle East,” he said. Day 1,187 after the astounding Russia-Ukraine success

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot will meet the Palestinian Authority’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, during a trip to Yerevan, Armenia this next week, his office announced on Sunday.

Barrot spoke with a number of Arab foreign ministers on Sunday to discuss efforts “to restore a diplomatic perspective for a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” his office said.

The diplomatic drive comes one month before a U.N. conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict chaired by France and Saudi Arabia in New York.

Sanchez has said his country will back draft resolutions at the United Nations aimed at ramping up aid access to Gaza and holding Israel to account over its international humanitarian obligations. Never mind the terrorists

Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are still holding 58 hostages, dozens of whom are already dead. Yet --

Israel's strongest ally in Europa.

Germany’s Merz blasts Israeli offensive in Gaza
“To harm the civilian population to such an extent,” the German chancellor said, “can no longer be justified as a fight against Hamas terrorism.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-friedrich-merz-blasts-israeli-offensive-gaza-strip/

Wrong target for Gaza aid fury: All these former 'allies' condemnation of Israel’s efforts to relieve the aid situation in Gaza as “completely unacceptable” reflects an extremely troubling oversimplification of a deeply complex issue.

“They world cannot turn a blind eye,” to Hamas who started this war and the culprit as to why this war is still raging Day 598

Tamer Qarmout: "Hamas is under “huge pressure” with Palestinians suffering terribly with the aid blockade and relentless attacks"However to ease things now... Rewarding terrorism and Back to square one — Bigger, more lethal Hamas

From: Al Jazeera May 26, 2025
West should ‘put their money where their mouths are’ on Israel:

Saul Takahashi, a professor at Osaka Jogakuin University, says:
the world has yet to see if European leaders will follow up with their tough rhetoric towards Israel over Gaza.

“There are harsher words being spoken and that will increase the pressure,” he told Al Jazeera from Osaka, Japan.
1. “But we will have to see whether these European governments will put their money where their mouths are.”
2. All governments have a legal obligation to do everything they can to prevent the ongoing genocide in Gaza,

Takahashi also said the West should immediately “stop prosecution of activism in their countries” — in addition to arms embargoes and terminating trade agreements — if they’re serious about reining Israel in.

“Any kind of advocacy for the Palestinians is basically outlawed, and governments are clamping down [on activists] using all sorts of tools,” he noted.

Europe’s change of tone on Gaza lacks action for now:

Mouin Rabbani, a non-resident fellow at the Qatar-based Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, says silence and inaction regarding what is going on in Gaza equate to “complicity”.

He noted that the UK recently suspended talks on a free trade agreement with Israel, and “presented this as a hugely significant sanction”. However, the UK continues to deliver weapons to “Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime” and flies intelligence flights over Gaza that “directly contribute to the genocide”,

The EU is slated to review its preferential trade agreement with Israel, which entered into force in 2000.

“What the EU is saying is that 25 years on, they still don’t have a clue whether Israel is violating Palestinian human rights and, therefore, they need to investigate the matter,” Rabbani told Al Jazeera

He highlighted “a change of tone” in Europe over Gaza because of growing public pressure on political leadership, amid the “explicitly genocidal statements” that keep coming out from Israel.

From: Al Jazeera May 26, 2025
‘Trump looks at Netanyahu and sees a loser’

Israeli political commentator Ori Goldberg says Trump is likely to abandon Netanyahu because of his ineffectiveness at dismantling Hamas as the Israeli prime minister has long promised. Day 1,188 Didn't Trump promise to end Russia-Ukraine war...

“I think Trump looks at Netanyahu and sees a loser because he has not managed to accomplish not a single goal he’s set out to do.
And if there’s one thing Trump doesn’t like, it’s losers around him,” Goldberg told Al Jazeera.

“Trump has made it clear he’s operating at a distance from Netanyahu, and I believe that is enough pressure for Netanyahu to ultimately buckle.”
Growing boycotts of Israeli scholars and by investors as well as talk of potential sporting bans have begun to hit home with the public, he added.

“I think now Israelis are starting to understand that this is actually happening — and so is Benjamin Netanyahu.”

Trump-Netanyahu relationship under the microscope over Gaza war:

Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat and columnist for The Independent newspaper, says Netanyahu has been forced into
1. “a very tight corner,
2. and there’s no way out”.

He said that domestic and international pressure continues to rise on Israel’s leader, but the key question is whether he will soon feel that pressure from US President Donald Trump.

Pinkas noted that Israeli media picked up anonymous sources saying that Trump told Netanyahu to “end the war immediately”.
Netanyahu later issued a video statement saying he expected to deliver news on the Gaza captives “either today or tomorrow”.

“The Israeli negotiating team divulged to the media they have no idea what he’s talking about.
They know of no progress on the talks. So I don’t think we’re more knowledgeable now than a day ago,” said Pinkas.

But he said Trump could use several methods if he truly wants Israel to halt the Gaza assault.

“He could pick up the phone and say to Netanyahu, ‘Enough is enough, you’re going to stop this war in the next 48 hours.’
The other level is: Trump takes it public. If that doesn’t work, he could say ‘There’s going to be a Security Council resolution that I won’t veto.'”

Israelis and Americans want Hamas to undergo ‘execution’

Tamer Qarmout, a professor from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says the Israelis want to see “a humiliating surrender” by Hamas.
“Hamas at the same time wants a dignified exit, not a dignified suicide, and this is what makes it so complicated,” Qarmout said of truce negotiations.

The group that governs Gaza is under “huge pressure” with Palestinians suffering terribly with the aid blockade and relentless attacks, he noted.
“The Israelis see this as a golden opportunity to finish this genocide, to cleanse the people, and finish the headache they call Gaza.”

The Israelis and Americans want Hamas to undergo a “death execution and I don’t see the logic behind it”, True Everyone's a winner! even the losers

On a possible ceasefire, Qarmout added: “In my opinion, if there’s anything serious to happen, it has to come from the Americans.
If the Americans realise Netanyahu is a loser … then I think you’ll see an immediate change by the Israeli government.”

Gaza ceasefire? Questions swirl as Israel, US deny any deal done.

Sources tell Al Jazeera Hamas has agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal by the United States.
However, a US official denies any deal is done.

The draft of the agreement includes a 60-day ceasefire and the release of 10 living captives along with the bodies of several more people in return for Palestinian prisoners over two stages, they said.

Five Israeli captives will be released at the beginning, with the other five freed on the 60th day.

If true, another 'Temporary' ceasefire without Israel — for Hamas and other terrorists to Recover, Rearm, Regroup — "endless offensive” Forever terror war.
Hamas to keep using their leverage until the last hostage dead and living released. Then what? Next October 7

The US making deals with Hamas outside of Israel is something the Gulf States and SA wanted.
It is typically Trump he wants to stay a neutral peacemaker like in Ukraine.